Senior Product Management Lead

Work & Co, part of Accenture Song, is a global design and technology company with offices in the United States, Europe, and Latin America. We are known for uniting the industry’s best hands-on strategy, product, and technical talent to generate tangible impact at scale. Client partners include IKEA, Apple, PGA TOUR, Gatorade, Google, Mercedes, Givenchy, the MTA, and more.

As Fast Company noted, our engineering and design teams are routinely entrusted with creating digital products for companies that rarely approach outside firms. Forrester Research calls our approach “a model to follow.” Visit work.co to learn more.

Senior Product Management Leads at Work & Co are cross-functional leaders who manage complex, multi-stream projects and define the product brief to shape the best possible product directly with the team. Recognized as the project lead by clients at all levels, the Senior Product Management Lead owns the full product development lifecycle and works in a collaborative, agile fashion. The Senior Product Management Lead drives projects from the initial concept through large-scale product release to post-launch optimization, consistently ensuring project, team and client health.

Teams at Work & Co are small and very experienced. As a Senior Product Management Lead, you will lead engagements alongside company partners as well as the top designers and technologists in the industry. You will share our love for making great products and services and shipping them on time. Along the way, you will develop new skills—from prototyping to analytics—as you partner with innovative clients.

To do this well, applicants will need an entrepreneurial spirit, an intellectual curiosity, and a bias towards action. The successful Senior Product Management Lead works collaboratively, communicates effectively, and drives consensus. They balance the ultimate user experience with business goals, and break down complex problems in order to locate and manage their solutions. A Senior Product Management Lead plans, prioritizes, and understands the bigger picture as well as the relevant details. This person tackles new problems, platforms, and industries. #wco

Key Responsibilities:

Partner with clients to understand business objectives, user behaviors, and product vision

Develop product concepts, roadmaps, test plans, and functional specifications documentation

Define the product brief and shape the best possible product directly with the team, across tactical and strategic engagements

Bring added perspective from a business, user or operator perspective, evaluating the work with an eye to how to make it better for users and the business, and ultimately how it should be developed/released

Own the project timeline and ensure consistent delivery against project deliverables and milestones; spot potential issues before they arise and devise solutions to protect overall project health

Collaborate with designers and engineers to conceptualize, design, and deliver multi-platform applications

Mentor more junior product managers

Job Qualifications

Demonstrated project management skills: mastery of planning and directing teams, scoping, contract-writing

Experience delivering web, mobile, and gaming platform projects that incorporate the latest technologies and methods

Track record of shipping on time

Familiarity with current and emerging technologies

Strong communication and collaboration skills—a Senior Product Management Lead works across Work & Co functional teams as well as partners closely with clients on all work

Smart, proactive leadership

An interest in strategy, design, and development

Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills in English