Product Manager
Accenture
Product Manager
Job Description
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 Manager 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:
Client & Project Delivery
Ensures customer and stakeholder value is delivered by the product team through clear feature alignment to benefit hypotheses / value
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
Ability to manage large internal delivery project teams and cross-functional teams across Accenture
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
Ability to manage senior executive clients and ensure delivery of key project deliverables
Ability to generate and curate long-term client relationships and build long-term client programs
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
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
Proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment
Establish product vision and can work with cross-functional teams
Qualifications
Here’s what you’ll need:
Minimum 3 years of management and delivery experience
Minimum 3 years of experience with proven ability to create, manage and deliver a successful Product Roadmap
A minimum of a high school diploma or GED is required for this position.
English is required for this position as this role will regularly interact with stakeholders across Canada, US and other countries across our Global footprint where English is the common language. Due to the significant high volume of interactions with these English-speaking stakeholders, which is inherent to this position, it is not possible to reorganize the company's activities to avoid this requirement
Bonus points if:
Bachelor's degree
Experience with client-facing responsibility or accountability for product delivery
Experience with people leadership, coaching, and training
Analytical and strategic decision-making coupled with a product planning and prioritization
A solid understanding and ability to describe and articulate the roles within a product team and responsibilities of the role within a full-scale product team
Extensive knowledge of a product delivery model from inception to execution
Requires strong analytical, data-driven mindset that keeps the end user at the heart of product creation
Ability to partner with clients to set goals and measures of success for product teams
Ability to manage conflict within an organization regarding planning and prioritization
Very strong verbal and written communication skills
Using and/or creating JIRA, Rally, Version One boards to track project scope
Comfortable creating content from scratch to tell the product story
Experience in SAFe, Scrum, Lean, Kanban
Certification in Agile (POPM,APM, CSPO)
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