Strategy Manager

MTM

MTM is part strategy consultancy, part market research agency, focused on media, entertainment and technology. Our clients range from digital giants such as Google, Amazon and Facebook to studios, broadcasters and sports businesses including Disney, Sky and the Premier League, and we work on international projects across the US, EMEA, APAC and LATAM.

Role Overview

We are seeking a Strategy Manager with a genuine passion for technology to join MTM’s strategy team and lead delivery on some of our most important technology work. You’ll sit at the heart of our developer and tech insights practice, running research and strategy projects for some of the world’s biggest tech brands, including work at the cutting edge of AI adoption across software and SaaS.

Reporting to the Director who leads our developer insights work, you will lead delivery across our technology research programmes and be a trusted day-to-day partner to senior client stakeholders. The role is mostly about excellent delivery, with a smaller share of proposals and account growth.

This role is ideal for an experienced consultant or researcher who wants to take ownership of a major client relationship and run with it. Our clients rely on us to shape their research agenda, not just answer briefs, so there is real room to make the role your own. We care more about the quality of your experience than the number of years, and we’re open to strong Senior Consultants who are ready to step up. The role is based in our Tottenham Court Road office in London, on a hybrid basis.

Key Responsibilities

Project Delivery

• Run projects end to end: scoping, writing proposals, costing, planning, delivery and final presentation.
• Manage project resourcing, timelines and budgets, delivering high-quality work on time.

Research & Insight

• Lead B2B research and interview programmes with senior technical audiences, from developers and CTOs to enterprise software buyers.
• Design analytical frameworks and turn qualitative and quantitative findings into clear, commercially useful insight.
• Design and deliver client briefings, reports, workshops and presentations.

Client Leadership

• Act as the day-to-day lead for senior clients, building trusted, long-term relationships.
• Bring new research ideas to clients and help grow the account over time.
• Contribute to proposals and new business initiatives.

Leadership & Team

• Lead project teams, and line manage and develop consultants and analysts.
• Share your knowledge of developer tech and AI across the team, keeping our thinking at the cutting edge.

What We’re Looking For

• Consulting experience, so you can contribute to client projects from day one. Most successful candidates will have around five or more years in consulting, research or insights.
• Experience working on major technology accounts, with exposure to developers, software development or enterprise tech.
• Strong B2B research skills, ideally including interviews with senior technical audiences.
• A track record of managing projects end to end, including proposals, costings and junior team members.
• Experience building strong relationships with senior stakeholders, with the adaptability to keep projects on track as priorities change.
• A strong baseline of knowledge across media-tech, from hardware and cloud to software development and AI/ML. You know the difference between an API and an IDE and keep up to date with the space.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to make and support a clear argument.
• A strong academic record, typically a 2:1 or above.
• Ideally, direct experience researching developers or developer tools, and research on AI adoption in software, SaaS or tech.
• Ideally, a computer science or technical degree, hands-on coding experience, or line management experience.

Who are we?  

A world where complexity is the only constant demands a new breed of company. Brave Bison is a different beast: a media, marketing and technology company purpose built for the digital era.  

Our universe is made up of award-winning business arms Brave Bison, Engage, SocialChain and MTM. And we’re underpinned by leading marketing training practice, MiniMBA, as well as our very own social-first media network who deliver monthly views in the billions for some of the biggest channels in sport and entertainment across YouTube, Snap, Meta and TikTok.  

We’re a global collective who live and breathe digital, working with some of the boldest brands in the world to capitalise on the complexity that defines the modern marketing landscape.  

Our mission 

New platforms, new behaviours, new audiences, new trends, new technologies, new regulations—our clients’ worlds get more complex daily. Their agency partnerships shouldn’t. It’s our job to cut through the chaos, make the complex simple and navigate a clear path to growth for them.  

That’s why we make it our mission to capitalise on complexity for our clients—across consultancy, capability and execution—by crafting dynamic digital solutions that outpace tomorrow’s challenges.  

Our values 

We’re a proudly diverse business comprised of deep specialists across media, marketing, training and technology. Although our skills, backgrounds and beliefs may differ, we are united by four core shared values: 

• Bold Curiosity. 

We run at change and challenge convention because we love to push the boundaries of what the world thinks is possible. We champion discovery, go deep into our clients’ worlds and are always hungry to learn more about them, our specialisms and each other.  

• Connected Clarity. 

We are focused in our collaboration — joining the right dots between our clients, our partners and our herd of experts to deliver agile solutions at speed and scale. We set a shared ambition from the outset, are transparent at every stage and always strive to make the complex simple. 

• Positive Encouragement. 

We want to make working with us the best part of someone’s day. We lift one other up, find the fun in the day to day and are committed to ensuring everyone belongs. 

• Constant Impact. 

We believe in outcomes over outputs. We’re goal orientated, results driven and data-led. We show up with passion every day. And we’re always honing our craft. 

What you’ll get 

Our people make us who we are, so to make sure we attract and retain the best and brightest in the industry, we offer an attractive benefits package.  

But not only that, we are the UK’s first carbon neutral agency (a status we have held since 2018), with a serious commitment to monitoring and reducing the impact our work has on the planet across three core sustainability pillars of Greenhouse Gases, Waste & Recycling and Sustainable Consumption. 

Then there’s a whole host of benefits – from discounted gym memberships and free eye tests to an employee pension scheme and enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption package. Here’s a snapshot of just some of the benefits we think you might also like: 

• Dynamic working: To keep that work-life harmony in check, we're flexible on where and when you work 
• Private medical insurance: To keep you fighting fit and give you and your family peace of mind. 
• Income protection: We know it feels good to be covered, just in case. 
• Calm Subscription: Now more than ever, it’s important to mind your mind! 
• 25 days annual leave: This increases to 26 days after three years of service, with an additional day every two years after that, up to a maximum of 30 days.
• Christmas closure: No need to save holiday days for the Christmas closure period. It's on us! 
• Birthdays off: One extra day to celebrate your big day 
• Online coaching and mental health support: Unlimited via OpenUp 
• Remote Working: Work abroad for up to one month a year. 
• Performance & Salary: Reviewed twice a year for everyone. 
• Performance bonus: Based on both individual and team performance.
• Training budget: An annual personal training budget, plus ongoing investment in your development.
• Pension: With a 5% employer contribution.

Finally, we’re proud and committed to being an equal opportunity workplace, providing equal opportunities for all and treating all existing employees and all job applicants in the same way, regardless of their age, disability, gender, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity status and marital & civil partnership status.