Forward Deployed Product Manager Consultant (FDPM)

Accenture; Columbus (OH); Hybrid; USD 59,000 - 157,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision plan

Life insurance

Long-term disability

401(k) plan

Bonus opportunities

Paid holidays

Paid time off

Job summary

Accenture seeks an AI-native Forward Deployed Product Manager to lead a harness team embedded with a client delivery workstream in Columbus, OH. You turn business problems into specs, write requirements, and run demos of the working product and harness.

This hybrid role requires three days in the office, up to 75% travel as needed, and collaboration with stakeholders to shape feature pipelines. A Bachelor's degree and 3+ years in product or delivery leadership are required.

Qualifications

• Three+ years of product or delivery leadership with technical fluency.
• Experience with AI-first skills (agents, spec-driven development, context engineering).
• Experience with GenAI and LLM fundamentals.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience (12 years).

Responsibilities

• Lead one harness team end to end from discovery to demos.
• Build and skill AI agents; author skills, tools, and context.
• Write specifications and drive spec-driven development.
• Prototype and vibe-code to shape the product with AI.
• Gather requirements and refine technical forms for the harness.
• Run demos and show value without needing an engineer.
• Shape and prioritize the feature pipeline.
• Manage team to stakeholder expectations.

Skills

Product leadership

Technical fluency

Client-facing delivery

AI-first skills

GenAI fundamentals

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher

Tools

APIs

Integrations

Cloud platforms

OpenAI Codex

Prompt engineering

Job description

We are:

The Advanced Technology Centers (ATCs) is the engine for reinvention in our clients’ transformation journey. Powered by more than 255,000* people across 24 countries, ATCs will provide our clients with seamless access to industry insights and innovative technology solutions.

Stronger together!

The Advanced Technology Centers (ATCs) make tremendous impact in solving our clients’ business problems leveraging Innovation, Intelligence, Industry insights, new IT and new technology skills. Now, with the global environment changing at a faster pace, our clients are facing unprecedented challenges, and they need us more than ever before. As a Network, ATCs are positioned to unlock greater opportunities and exponential value for our clients.

The value for our clients and our people

For our clients, the Network provides the strength of our geographic diversity, greater resilience, and seamless access to the deepest industry knowledge, the latest in Gen AI solutions, and tech expertise from around the world.

For our people, it brings an opportunity to shape truly boundaryless career paths in a highly collaborative team of experts where they can learn from each other and solve the world’s most complex client challenges

You are:

An AI-native Forward Deployed Product Manager who leads a single AI delivery team built on an agentic harness (the orchestration environment of agents, skills, specs, and context that produces and runs the product). You turn business problems into the specs the harness executes, run the loop yourself, and demonstrate the working product and its value directly to clients. You build and skill your own agents, engineer the context the harness reasons over, and prototype to shape a product fast. You are technically fluent and hands‑on, without replacing the engineering accountability for production code and operations.

Building agents: hands‑on experience creating and skilling AI agents (skills, tools, and context / markdown files).

Spec-driven development: writing specifications and driving development from them.

Context engineering: curating the knowledge, retrieval, and memory an AI system reasons over.

Vibe coding and prototyping: building clickable prototypes and concepts with AI tools.

Generative AI and LLM fundamentals: working knowledge of retrieval‑augmented generation, embeddings, prompt engineering, AI agents, and agentic workflows.

Product or delivery leadership: experience leading product management, technical product management, delivery management, or business analysis in complex environments.

Technical fluency: APIs, integrations, cloud platforms, and modern architectures; able to discuss interaction and dependency points with engineers (without owning the implementation).

Client‑facing delivery: ability to run client demos and communicate product value independently.

Leadership through influence: ability to lead without authority, make decisions under ambiguity, and operate effectively in evolving client environments.

The Work:

You will embed with a client delivery team and lead one harness team end to end: from discovery and mobilization, through writing the specs and business requirements the harness runs on, to running demos of the working product and the harness itself. You manage the team to stakeholder expectations; the stakeholder‑leadership seat sits with the Senior Forward Deployed Product Manager.

Responsibilities:

• Lead discovery and mobilization (first :2 weeks): assess what the team and client need, break down the problem, and stand up the agentic harness for the product.
• Build and skill AI agents for the harness: create agent skills and tools, author markdown / context files, and engineer the context the harness reasons over.
• Write specifications and drive spec‑driven development: author clear, open specs the AI harness can pick up and iterate on.
• Prototype and vibe‑code to shape the product: build clickable prototypes and concepts with AI to align stakeholders quickly (concepts and UI, not production code).
• Partner with stakeholders on requirements: gather and continuously refine evolving business requirements into the technical form the harness executes and iterates.
• Run the harness and run demos independently: show the working product, the value delivered, and how the harness operates at each step, without needing an engineer on the call.
• Shape and prioritize the feature pipeline: features within a sprint, epics across sprints, keeping the delivery runway healthy.
• Manage the team to stakeholder expectations: own delivery commitments and keep the team aligned to what stakeholders expect.

This is hybrid role and will require three days per week in the office; travel 25% to 75% per business need.

Hiring locations:

Columbus, OH; Atlanta, GA; Tampa, FL; or Dallas, TX

Here’s What You Need:

• A minimum of three years of experience of product, technical-product or delivery leadership experience with technical fluency (APIs, integrations, cloud) and strong client‑facing delivery.
• A minimum of one year of experience with AI‑first skills (building agents, spec‑driven development, context engineering and prototyping with AI).
• A minimum of one year of experience with GenAI and LLM fundamentals
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years) work experience. (If Associate Degree, must have minimum 6 years work experience.)

Preferred Qualifications

• Hands‑on expertise with enterprise AI tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, or OpenAI Codex; relevant certifications a plus.
• Experience in regulated industries or environments with significant privacy, security, compliance, or risk requirements.
• Product management, Agile, Scrum, SAFe, or related professional certification.

Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. As required by local law, Accenture provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired as set forth below.

We anticipate this job posting will be posted until 11/23/2026.

Accenture offers a market competitive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, and long‑term disability coverage, a 401(k) plan, bonus opportunities, paid holidays, and paid time off. See more information on our benefits here:

Role Location Annual Salary Range

• California $70,350 to $196,000
• Colorado $63,800 to $169,300
• Connecticut $63,800 to $169,300
• District of Columbia $68,000 to $180,300
• Illinois $59,100 to $169,300
• Maine $54,400 to $144,300
• Maryland $63,800 to $169,300
• Massachusetts $63,800 to $180,300
• Minnesota $63,800 to $169,300
• New York $66,300 to $196,000
• New Jersey $68,000 to $196,000
• Ohio $59,100 to $156,800
• Virginia $59,100 to $180,300
• Washington $80,200 to $180,300

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