Product Leader – Talent Technology & Innovation

EY; Cleveland (OH); Remote; USD 120,000 - 244,000; Full time

Job summary

EY is seeking a Technical Product & Innovation Manager to partner with the Digital Talent Strategy Lead and shape a product-led talent technology organization. You will define governance, roadmaps, and operating disciplines for enterprise-scale portfolios while guiding Client Zero initiatives that connect strategy, user needs, and delivery.

You’ll work with Demand Management, translate validated needs into business cases, and align investments with outcomes, architecture, and delivery partners

Qualifications

• Relevant experience in technical product management, HR or talent technology.
• Experience establishing or materially maturing a product organization, including governance, operating rhythms, lifecycle practices, decision rights, and cross-functional accountabilities
• Experience defining a technology investment strategy and technical roadmap that connect business priorities, architecture, funding, sequencing, capacity, risk, and value realization
• Experience leading Client Zero, internal-first, pilot, or incubation initiatives through implementation, adoption, measurement, and enterprise scale
• Experience managing roadmaps and backlogs, leading structured discovery, translating business needs into implementable requirements, and coordinating delivery across business and technical teams
• Experience with enterprise HR platforms or service-delivery technologies, with ServiceNow, employee portals, case and knowledge management, workflow automation, or comparable platforms preferred
• Working knowledge of integrations, APIs, data flows, security, privacy, technical debt, testing, release management, and platform lifecycle practices
• Strong analytical and financial judgment and a bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience in a relevant field

Responsibilities

• Establish governance, operating rhythms, lifecycle standards, ownership, documentation, escalation paths, and decision rights across the portfolio
• Lead Client Zero talent technology initiatives from use-case definition through implementation, adoption, measurement, and readiness for broader scale
• Define and activate a talent technology investment strategy and multi-horizon technical roadmap aligned to priorities, funding, architecture, dependencies, risks, and measurable value
• Launch a Client Zero pipeline that validates priority talent technology use cases through governed pilots and advances proven solutions toward enterprise scale
• Establish a reliable, integrated view of the talent technology inventory, roadmap, demand, dependencies, risks, investment choices, and decision points
• Implement a consistent intake-to-delivery process that improves requirement quality, prioritization, ownership clarity, and delivery predictability
• Build and actively manage an innovation and enhancement pipeline that moves high-value ideas from discovery through adoption and measurement

Skills

Tech product mgmt

Talent technology

Product governance

Roadmap management

Backlog prioritization

APIs & integrations

Executive communication

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

ServiceNow

Job description

EY is seeking a Technical Product & Innovation Manager to partner with the Digital Talent Strategy Lead and shape a product-led talent technology organization. You will define governance, roadmaps, and operating disciplines for enterprise-scale portfolios while guiding Client Zero initiatives that connect strategy, user needs, and delivery.

You’ll work with Demand Management, translate validated needs into business cases, and align investments with outcomes, architecture, and delivery partners