Product Manager (Senior or Manager Consultant)

The opportunity : The Digital & Emerging Technology team works collaboratively with clients to transform their business through disruptive innovation enablement and transformational design solutions. The team supports our clients in modernizing systems, processes and products to enhance business and customer-facing platforms and services to support high performance in a rapidly changing and competitive environment. Our team helps clients sustain competitive advantage and profitability by developing technology strategies, products, and solutions to stay ahead of the rapid pace of change and disruption and supporting the execution of complex transformations. We are looking for an experienced, passionate, results-oriented Product Manager who is a great problem solver with deep and proven experience in delivering products to market to join our team of digital professionals in our Digital & Emerging Technologies practice. Your key responsibilities: The goal is to support our clients to transform their business through technology. As a Product Manager you will work with multi-discipline feature teams including user experience experts, architects, engineers and others to define and roll out products and services for large global organizations as well as for EY. You will take a customer centric and data-driven approach to product development. You will advocate for the user throughout the product development lifecycle. You can break down and simplify complex processes and touchpoints to deliver exceptional experiences. You are a strategic thinker, can prioritize and define product roadmaps, manage a product backlog, make quick decisions and coordinate the team to release quality products within planned timelines. You understand modern platform structures, cloud architectures, digital platforms and enablers, and data strategy considerations. In addition, you will support practice building activities such as team mentorship and proposal deck development. Skills and attributes for success Manage service delivery, identifying future sales opportunities, and supporting practice development activities. Deliver quality client services by monitoring progress and demonstrate in-depth technical capabilities and professional knowledge. Maintain long-term client relationships and networks and cultivate business development opportunities. Effectively work with client engagement teams with diverse skills and backgrounds fostering an innovative and inclusive work environment. Demonstrate understanding of current technology environment and industry trends and provide recommendations for engagement and client service issues. Requirements: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems Management or a related field and 6 years of progressive, post-baccalaureate work experience. Facilitate discussions with technical, design and business subject-matter resources to document requirements, establish a vision, and articulate alternatives for future state solutions across various domains and channels. Has set product vision, defined, and managed product roadmaps, prioritized and managed the backlog and has led product launches. Can participate in and drive ideation sessions, standups, sprints and scrums. Has a specific domain knowledge and understands the dynamics impacting their product such as market trends, technology and regulatory rules. Experience with successfully managing projects with defined deliverables and budgets. Experience must include budgeting and managing the schedule; client relationship management; communicating strategically around key issues; conflict resolution and consensus building. Must have a thorough understanding of complex information systems and technology organizations and to be able to work effectively between the application, data infrastructure, operations and security architectural spaces Proven delivery skills including the ability to scope/size a project; staff a team with the appropriate skill set; provide subject matter direction and guidance to a team; manage communications with the project sponsors and manage the delivery of an engagement workstream. Requires domestic and regional travel up to 50% to serve client needs. What we look for We’re interested in passionate individuals with a strong vision and a desire to stay on top of trends. If you have a genuine passion for helping businesses achieve their full potential, then these role(s) are for you. What we offer Continuous learning: You’ll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next Success as defined by you: We’ll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, on your way Transformative leadership: We’ll give you the insights, coaching, and confidence to be the leader the world needs Diverse and inclusive culture: You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs