Manager, Digital Product Strategy

Accenture PLC; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 87,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture Song in the United States (Illinois) seeks a product strategy and transformation practitioner who can connect strategy to execution and help clients solve complex problems across products, teams, and operating models. You bring strong product and consulting foundations and can turn ambiguity into structure, momentum, and outcomes.

You will lead client engagements on digital product strategy, operating model transformation, and AI-enabled change, mentor junior staff, and craft

Qualifications

• Minimum 6 years of experience in product management, digital product strategy, consulting, transformation, or related work.
• Experience leading client-facing workstreams and managing stakeholder relationships with senior leaders.
• Experience developing product strategies, roadmaps, or operating model recommendations.
• Strong communication, synthesis, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to mobilize product operating models including governance, roles, and team structures.
• Experience using AI to augment work and improve efficiency.

Responsibilities

• Lead key workstreams across client engagements focused on digital product strategy, product operating model transformation, and AI-enabled change.
• Conduct assessments of product organizations, development practices, governance, and delivery models.
• Support development of product strategies connecting customer needs, business priorities, market context, and technical realities.
• Help define and mobilize the operating model required to deliver product strategy, including governance and blended client/Accenture teams.
• Identify opportunities where AI and automation can improve product development and customer outcomes.
• Structure and synthesize research and stakeholder input into clear recommendations.
• Facilitate working sessions with client stakeholders across business, product, design, engineering, and data teams.
• Create client-ready presentations and high-quality deliverables.

Skills

Product strategy

Digital product management

Consulting

Stakeholder management

Tools

AI tools

Job description

About the Company

We are: Accenture Song accelerates growth and value for our clients through sustained customer relevance. Our capabilities span ideation to execution: growth, product and experience design; technology and experience platforms; creative, media and marketing strategy; and campaign, content and channel orchestration. With strong client relationships and deep industry expertise, we help our clients operate at the speed of life through the unlimited potential of imagination, technology and intelligence. Visit us at: www.accenture.com/song. Design & Digital Products creates value for our clients, their employees, and their customers by designing and building impactful experiences fueled by technology that change the way people work and live. We bring together a product management, design and engineering capabilities to help clients define what to build and how to deliver it through the right operating model, talent, governance, and ways of working.

About the role

You are: You are a product strategy and transformation practitioner who can connect strategy to execution and help clients solve complex problems across products, teams, and operating models. You bring strong product and consulting foundations and the ability to turn ambiguity into structure, momentum, and outcomes. You are curious, collaborative, and thoughtful in how you work. You ask smart questions, synthesize inputs quickly, and connect the dots across business, product, design, data, and technology teams. You can connect product strategy to the operating model required to deliver it. You help shape product direction and mobilize the teams, governance, and ways of working needed to execute successfully across blended client and Accenture teams. You bring an AI-first mindset and look for new ways to solve product, customer, and operating model problems using AI. You understand the value AI can bring to product strategy, delivery, and operational work, and you have used AI in your own day-to-day work to improve quality, speed, analysis, or content development.

Responsibilities

• Lead key workstreams across client engagements focused on digital product strategy, product operating model transformation, and AI-enabled change
• Conduct assessments of product organizations, product development practices, governance, team structures, and delivery models
• Support the development of product strategies that connect customer needs, business priorities, market context, and technical realities
• Help define and mobilize the operating model required to deliver product strategy, including team structures, governance, ways of working, and blended client and Accenture resource models
• Identify and prioritize opportunities where AI and automation can improve product development, delivery decision-making, or customer outcomes
• Structure and synthesize research, stakeholder input, market context, and internal analysis into clear recommendations
• Facilitate working sessions with client stakeholders across business, product, design, engineering, and data teams
• Help bridge strategy and execution by translating recommendations into operating rhythms, delivery implications, and actionable next steps
• Manage and develop more junior team members through coaching, day-to-day guidance, review of work quality, and support for career growth
• Create client-ready presentations, strategic materials, and other high-quality deliverables
• Support proposals, recruiting, capability‑building efforts, and internal knowledge sharing

Requirements

Minimum 6 years of experience in product management, digital product strategy, consulting, transformation, innovation, or related work. Experience should include:

• Experience leading client‑facing workstreams and managing stakeholder relationships with Senior Managers and Directors, with some exposure to VP and C‑suite stakeholders
• Experience developing product strategies, roadmaps, transformation plans, or operating model recommendations
• Strong communication, synthesis, and problem‑solving skills
• Demonstrated ability to define and mobilize product operating models, including governance, roles, team structures, delivery ways of working, and blended client and consulting teams
• Working knowledge of how AI can create value across product, delivery, operations, and customer experience
• Demonstrated ability to use AI to augment your own work and improve effectiveness, speed, or quality
• Familiarity with agentic workflows and responsible AI considerations such as governance, transparency, and human oversight
• Strong collaboration skills and experience managing or coaching more junior resources

Bonus points if

• Experience in Communications, Media, and Technology, retail, consumer products, or other customer‑centric industries
• Experience with product organization design, agile transformation, or operating model change
• Experience supporting commerce, omnichannel, customer experience, or digital portfolio transformation
• Experience in both consulting and industry settings
• Experience using AI to improve research, synthesis, planning, or delivery workflows
• Exposure to AI governance, observability, or adoption planning

Travel

Travel may be required based on client, business, and engagement needs.

Compensation

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 11/06/2026.

Benefits

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.

Annual Salary Range

• California $94,400 to $266,300
• Colorado $94,400 to $230,000
• Connecticut $94,400 to $230,000
• District of Columbia $100,500 to $245,000
• Illinois $87,400 to $230,000
• Maine $80,400 to $196,000
• Maryland $94,400 to $230,000
• Massachusetts $94,400 to $245,000
• Minnesota $94,400 to $230,000
• NewYork $87,400 to $266,300
• NewJersey $100,500 to $266,300
• Ohio $87,400 to $213,000
• Virginia $87,400 to $245,000
• Washington $100,500 to $245,000

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. Visit us at www.accenture.com

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