Digital Product Manager, Utilities
Accenture
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:
Ensures customer and stakeholder value is delivered by the product team
Proactively plans and manages cross-functional team communications and keeps product team apprised of key decisions
Collaborates with client to develop new feature business cases
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
Facilitates trade-off decisions, when needed, by balancing business needs, customer experience and technical feasibility
Manages and prioritizes product backlog by working with stakeholders for maximum efficiency
Enables continuous communication and manages customer and stakeholder feedback by synthesizing and integrating it in the product roadmap
Evangelizes and upholds agile practices and methodologies
Establish and responsible for ensuring correct user story definition and acceptance criteria for the product backlog
Supports the team by working towards removing obstacles and distractions
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 status with senior executive leadership
Helps establish product vision and ensures adherence continuously from cross-functional teams
Actively participates in release planning and contributes to PI planning
Here’s what you’ll need:
Minimum 6 years of product management and delivery experience, with industry specialization in Utilities
Minimum 4 years of experience with proven ability to create, manage and deliver a successful Product Roadmap
Minimum of 4 years client-facing responsibility or accountability for product delivery
Bonus points if:
Bachelor's degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years) work experience
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
Using Invision/ Zeplin to comment and prepare design and scrum teams
Experience in SAFe, Scrum, Lean, Kanban
Certification in Agile (POPM,APM, CSPO)
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Washington $100,500 to $245,000
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