Manager, Digital Product Strategy

Accenture; Sacramento (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture Song is seeking a product strategy and transformation practitioner who connects strategy to execution and helps clients solve complex problems across products, teams, and operating models. You will bring an AI-first mindset to shaping product direction and mobilizing governance and blended client-Accenture resources.

You will lead client engagements, define operating models, and translate insights into actionable changes.

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 Managers.
• AI-first mindset and ability to apply AI to product strategy and operating models.

Responsibilities

• Lead key workstreams across digital product strategy and AI-enabled change.
• Assess product organizations, development practices, governance, and delivery models.
• Develop product strategies aligned with customer needs and business priorities.
• Define and mobilize operating models, governance, and team structures.
• Identify AI and automation opportunities to improve delivery and outcomes.
• Synthesize research and context into clear recommendations.
• Facilitate client workshops with cross-functional teams.
• Translate recommendations into operating rhythms and next steps.
• Coach junior team members and contribute to career growth.
• Create client-ready presentations and strategic materials.
• Support proposals, recruiting, capability-building, and knowledge sharing.

Skills

Product management

Digital product strategy

Consulting

Transformation

AI

Stakeholder management

Client-facing

Leadership

Job description

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.

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.

The work:

• 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

Here’s what you’ll need:

• 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