Principle Digital Strategist

Dept Design & Technology AG seeks a Senior Principle Digital Strategist in Zürich for a hybrid role. The position focuses on digital strategy, client advisory, and cross-disciplinary innovation within the Experience & Engineering unit.

This consulting role operates within the Experience & Engineering business unit across the DACH region. The position serves as a central advisor, guiding client partnerships and influencing outcomes while driving innovation and expanding both client portfolios and internal expertise.

Responsibilities

• Integrate emerging market trends and technical insights into digital strategy frameworks.
• Provide strategic direction across brand, transformation, customer experience, product, technology, and AI/data disciplines.
• Develop and sustain trusted relationships with key clients.
• Collaborate with technology, data, AI, experience, and design teams to innovate service offerings.
• Lead and contribute to new business pitches at both local and international levels.

Requirements

• Extensive experience in strategy-focused roles within an agency environment.
• Native proficiency in Swiss German.
• Fluent command of English.
• Deep, long-standing expertise in digital, experience, and engineering domains.
• Proven ability to advise senior clients on portfolio decisions, business cases, strategic projects, and roadmaps, with comfort presenting to C-level executives.

Nice to have

• Prior experience working with insurance clients.

What the company offers

• Company pension scheme.
• Hybrid work model with flexible hours, remote work options, and occasional client travel (2 days in office).
• Competitive salary aligned with experience and equal pay principles.
• Free, anonymous, unlimited access to 1-on-1 online coaching and mindfulness consultations with psychologists.
• €30 monthly flexible allowance for digital food stamps, fitness, massage, internet, or public transport.
• Exclusive access to sustainable, healthy products via FutureBens.
• Social and cultural events with international colleagues.
• Inspirational talks and AI masterclasses with guest speakers.
• Continuous learning and development opportunities.
• Buddy program for onboarding support.
• Global annual DEPT® Cares Month for charitable skill donation.

About the company

DEPT® operates as a Growth Invention company, helping ambitious brands accelerate growth. The firm sits at the intersection of technology and marketing, pioneering ideas, acting quickly, and pushing boundaries. The culture emphasizes openness, autonomy, and ambition, driven by the values: better together, relentlessly curious, and get sh*t done.

• Better together
• Relentlessly curious
• Get sh*t done
• Openness
• Autonomy
• Ambition