Product Management Lead

We are:

Accenture Song accelerates growth and value for our clients through sustained customer relevance. Our capabilities span ideation to execution: growth, product and experience design; technology and experience platforms; creative, media and marketing strategy; and campaign, content and channel orchestration. With strong client relationships and deep industry expertise, we help our clients operate at the speed of life through the unlimited potential of imagination, technology and intelligence. Visit us at: www.accenture.com/song

Digital Products creates value for our clients, their employees, and their customers. We design and build impactful experiences fueled by Technology that change the way people work and live. Our team collaborates cross -functionally across the US and Canada. With expertise in product strategy, design, innovation, and delivery transformation at scale, assisting with design thinking, integrating user-experience design/research, and impeccable development for native mobile, web, and embedded systems, we will help bring clarity to any omni-channel product vision.

You are:

Are you a passionate Product Manager that’s delivered in a fast-paced delivery environment?

Here at Accenture Song, we are solving complex problems and building intelligent, human-centric experiences across digital platforms that change the world through innovative experiences! If this interests you, let's connect!

Accenture works with the world’s largest companies and government agencies to enable innovation at scale, while keeping customer, employee and user experience at the forefront of what we do. We are recognized leaders and partner with some of the most recognizable names in the technology space, plus we work with over 90% of Fortune 100 companies.

Beyond contributing at the client level, Accenture is committed to developing your skills and providing support to shape and grow your career. Our employees agree, as we have been consistently recognized on Fortune's 100 Best Companies to Work For list for 10 consecutive years.

As a Product Management Lead within Accenture Song, you’ll bring a keen desire to positively impact the humans around you, collaborate and deliver products by connecting your skills and know-how of diverse teams and design tools. A strong ability to lead others creatively, being mindful of technical feasibility and collaborate with key stakeholders to bring a vision to life sets you and your team on the path of success to bring lasting value to our clients.

The work:

• Ensures customer and stakeholder value is delivered by the product team through clear feature alignment to benefit hypotheses/value

• Able to craft a compelling quantitative business case that ties business impact delivered by product to prioritized features

• Understand a client’s business strategy and industry and the ability to craft product recommendations to deliver against business objectives

• Proactively plans and manages cross-functional team communications and keeps product team apprised of key decisions

• Ownership mentality – demonstrating a clear accountability for building products that make customers feel job, delight, and trust and passion for the product craft and practice

• Identifies key questions to help and solve critical problems throughout an engagement and ensures the final product meets the business need, delivers maximum value and delights users

• Client management – ability to manage a client and ensure delivery of key project deliverables

• Strategic product thinker – ability to identify new opportunities in changing technical and market landscape

• Enables continuous communication and manages client, customer, and other stakeholder feedback by synthesizing and integrating it in the product roadmap

• Strong communication

• Ability to influence with cross-functional collaboration skills and senior level audiences to gain buy-in and support to progress product development

• Sufficient understanding of technology strategy to support in communication to non-technical and senior audiences at a level that is digestible and understandable

• Manage and prioritize product backlog

• Evangelizes and upholds agile practices and methodologies

• Responsible for ensuring correct user story definition and acceptance criteria for the product backlog

• Proven ability to build, manage and foster teams of 4 – 20 people throughout the entire delivery lifecycle

• Proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment

• Ability to communicate and articulate to a senior executive leadership

• Helps establish product vision and ensures adherence continuously from cross-functional teams

• Actively participate in release planning and lead PI planning

• Managing and coaching the career paths of junior product managers