Product Engineering Senior Manager

About Accenture

Accenture is a global professional services company helping organizations improve the way they operate and deliver value through technology, consulting, and operations.

Role Summary

As a Product Engineering Senior Manager, you will define and drive product strategy across complex product portfolios, ensuring customer needs, business goals, and technology capabilities are aligned to deliver measurable outcomes. You will lead the evolution of product vision, champion human-centered design, and oversee product roadmaps that create sustainable client value.

You will work closely with senior executives, business stakeholders, engineering leaders, designers, and delivery teams to shape product direction, prioritize investments, and establish a culture of continuous learning and evidence-based decision making. Your leadership will help ensure product teams consistently deliver impactful solutions while adapting to changing customer and market needs.

What You'll Do

Define Product Strategy and Vision

• Establish and communicate a compelling product vision aligned to client and business objectives.
• Bring the voice of the customer into strategic product decisions through research, insights, market signals, and stakeholder engagement.
• Drive long-term product strategy while balancing short-term delivery priorities.
• Partner with executive stakeholders to align product investments with business outcomes.

Lead Product Portfolio Planning

• Own and govern product roadmaps across multiple products, programs, or value streams.
• Ensure prioritization decisions are based on customer value, business impact, delivery feasibility, and strategic objectives.
• Oversee portfolio-level product planning and investment decisions.
• Drive alignment among business, technology, and design stakeholders.

Deliver Measurable Client Value

• Lead cross-functional teams to ensure product outcomes deliver meaningful client and customer value.
• Establish outcome-based success metrics and monitor performance against objectives.
• Guide product teams in managing trade-offs and making informed decisions using evidence and data.
• Drive accountability for business results, adoption, customer satisfaction, and value realization.

Drive Product Discovery and Validation

• Promote human-centered design, customer research, and iterative product discovery practices.
• Sponsor experimentation through prototypes, pilots, usability testing, and structured feedback mechanisms.
• Ensure customer insights and learnings are continuously incorporated into product strategy and execution.
• Foster an environment where teams embrace experimentation and continuous learning.

Build and Enable High-Performing Product Teams

• Lead, coach, and mentor product managers, product owners, and cross-functional product teams.
• Establish product management best practices, governance models, and operating rhythms.
• Facilitate strategic planning sessions and executive-level product reviews.
• Build organizational product capabilities that scale across client engagements and internal teams.

Strengthen Product Operating Models

• Define and improve product operating frameworks, processes, and governance models.
• Drive adoption of Agile and modern product management methodologies.
• Champion transparency through portfolio reporting, product performance reviews, and executive communications.
• Continuously improve ways of working to increase speed, agility, and customer value delivery.

Skills & Qualifications

Required

• Proven experience leading product management, product ownership, or digital product strategy functions.
• Extensive experience defining and executing product strategies, roadmaps, and portfolio plans.
• Strong expertise in customer research, customer-centric design, and translating insights into business outcomes.
• Demonstrated success managing complex stakeholder environments and influencing executive decision-making.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams across product, engineering, design, and business functions.
• Deep understanding of Agile, product operating models, and iterative product delivery.
• Strong communication, facilitation, and leadership skills with the ability to drive alignment at all organizational levels.
• Experience managing large-scale transformation initiatives or enterprise-level product ecosystems.

Preferred

• Experience overseeing multiple products, platforms, or digital transformation programs.
• Knowledge of product analytics, experimentation frameworks, and evidence-based product management.
• Experience implementing product operating models within large organizations.
• Familiarity with customer journey mapping, service design, and innovation methodologies.
• Experience leading global or distributed product teams.
• Certifications in Product Management, Agile, Scrum, SAFe, Design Thinking, or related disciplines.

How You'll Be Successful

• Product strategies are clearly linked to business objectives and customer outcomes.
• Product portfolios consistently deliver measurable client value and business impact.
• Customer insights directly influence investment decisions, roadmap priorities, and product outcomes.
• Product teams operate effectively with strong governance, alignment, and accountability.
• Product roadmaps evolve dynamically based on evidence, feedback, and market opportunities.
• The organization demonstrates increased product maturity, innovation, and adoption of modern product practices.

Professional Attributes

• Strategic thinker with the ability to connect vision, execution, and business outcomes.
• Strong leadership presence with the ability to influence senior stakeholders and executives.
• Data-driven decision-maker with a customer-first mindset.
• Skilled at navigating complexity, ambiguity, and organizational change.
• Passionate about building high-performing teams and fostering continuous improvement.

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

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