Forward Deployed Product Manager (FDPM)
Accenture PLC
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Job summary
Accenture is seeking an AI-native Forward Deployed Product Manager to lead a single AI delivery harness team end to end for client engagements. You will translate business problems into specs, run the loop, and demonstrate value to clients, while building agents and shaping the product's context.
You will embed with a client delivery team, manage discovery, mobilization, and demos, write open specs, prototype quickly, and partner with stakeholders to refine requirements.
Qualifications
- Three years of product/technical‑product or delivery leadership with technical fluency (APIs, integrations, cloud) and strong client‑facing delivery.
- At least one year of experience with AI‑first skills (building agents, spec‑driven development, context engineering and prototyping with AI).
- At least one year of experience with GenAI and LLM fundamentals.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience; Associate degree with minimum 6 years may be acceptable.
Responsibilities
- Lead discovery and mobilization (first ~2 weeks) and stand up the agentic harness for the product.
- Build and skill AI agents for the harness; author skills, tools, and context files.
- Write specifications and drive spec‑driven development.
- Prototype and vibe‑code to shape the product with clickable AI concepts.
- Partner with stakeholders on requirements; gather and refine evolving needs.
- Run the harness and demos independently to show value.
- Shape and prioritize the feature pipeline across sprints.
- Manage the team to stakeholder expectations; ensure delivery commitments.
- Hybrid role requiring three days per week in the office; travel 25%–75% as needed.
- Hiring locations: Columbus, OH; Atlanta, GA; Tampa, FL; or Dallas, TX.
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Job description
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.
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.
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
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.
hands‑on experience creating and skilling AI agents (skills, tools, and context / markdown files).
writing specifications and driving development from them.
curating the knowledge, retrieval, and memory an AI system reasons over.
building clickable prototypes and concepts with AI tools.
working knowledge of retrieval‑augmented generation, embeddings, prompt engineering, AI agents, and agentic workflows.
experience leading product management, technical product management, delivery management, or business analysis in complex environments.
APIs, integrations, cloud platforms, and modern architectures; able to discuss interaction and dependency points with engineers (without owning the implementation).
ability to run client demos and communicate product value independently.
ability to lead without authority, make decisions under ambiguity, and operate effectively in evolving client environments.
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.
Assess what the team and client need, break down the problem, and stand up the agentic harness for the product.
Create agent skills and tools, author markdown / context files, and engineer the context the harness reasons over.
Author clear, open specs the AI harness can pick up and iterate on.
Build clickable prototypes and concepts with AI to align stakeholders quickly (concepts and UI, not production code).
Gather and continuously refine evolving business requirements into the technical form the harness executes and iterates.
Show the working product, the value delivered, and how the harness operates at each step, without needing an engineer on the call.
Features within a sprint, epics across sprints, keeping the delivery runway healthy.
Own delivery commitments and keep the team aligned to what stakeholders expect.
- 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.)
- 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.
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.
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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