Product Manager

Accenture PLC; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 110,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture Federal Services in Washington, DC is seeking a product-minded professional to bridge mission needs with user value and agile delivery. You will own backlog items, define features, and guide teams toward high‑value outcomes for federal clients.

You'll collaborate with engineers, architects, and delivery leaders, translating complex requirements into actionable user stories while aligning with mission priorities and compliance standards.

Qualifications

• Experience turning user, mission, or stakeholder needs into actionable requirements and backlog items.
• Ability to translate needs into user stories, acceptance criteria, and release priorities.
• Strong collaboration with technical teams and clear communication with business stakeholders.
• Understanding of Agile/Scrum/SAFe delivery and backlog management.
• Experience owning product areas, leading discovery and prioritization, and mentoring others.

Responsibilities

• Discover and clarify mission needs through interviews, workshops, analysis, and collaboration.
• Translate needs into goals, roadmaps, epics, features, user stories, and backlog priorities.
• Support or lead backlog refinement, sprint/PI planning, product discovery, and stakeholder alignment.
• Use product metrics, customer insights, delivery data, and prioritization frameworks to make tradeoff recommendations and communicate rationale.
• Partner closely with Digital Experience Engineers, Business Application Engineers, Quality Engineers, platform teams, architects, design partners, and delivery leaders.
• Help teams maintain alignment between product outcomes, technical feasibility, user value, quality, delivery constraints, and federal mission priorities.
• Facilitate collaboration across business and technical stakeholders and communicate complex requirements, risks, and decisions in clear language.
• Use AFS‑approved AI‑assisted tools and workflows to accelerate research synthesis, requirements analysis, backlog refinement, documentation, and product decision support while validating outputs.
• As your experience grows, own larger product areas, define product vision and success measures, mentor others, and influence roadmap and prioritization decisions across teams or programs.

Skills

Product management

Business analysis

Agile delivery

Requirements engineering

Stakeholder management

Backlog management

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Jira

Azure DevOps

Confluence

Miro

Lucidchart

Job description

At Accenture Federal Services, nothing matters more than helping the US federal government make the nation stronger and safer and life better for people. Our 13,000+ people are united in a shared purpose to pursue the limitless potential of technology and ingenuity for clients across defense, national security, public safety, civilian, and military health organizations.

Join Accenture Federal Services, a technology company within global Accenture. Recognized as a Glassdoor Top 100 Best Place to Work, we offer a collaborative and caring community where you feel like you belong and are empowered to grow, learn and thrive through hands‑on experience, certifications, industry training and more.

Join us to drive positive, lasting change that moves missions and the government forward!

You are:

A product-minded problem solver who connects mission needs, user value, stakeholder priorities, and technical delivery. You bring together product management, business analysis, and Agile delivery skills to help teams decide what to build, why it matters, and how to deliver the highest‑value outcomes for federal clients. This capability posting is designed for candidates who may be building their product‑management foundation or already be ready to independently own a product area, backlog, feature set, or stakeholder workstream. As your experience grows, you may define broader product vision and roadmaps, lead cross‑team prioritization, mentor product practitioners, and influence portfolio‑level product decisions.

The work:

• Discover and clarify mission, user, stakeholder, operational, and business needs through interviews, workshops, analysis, and collaboration.
• Translate needs into product goals, roadmaps, epics, features, user stories, acceptance criteria, backlog items, and release priorities.
• Support or lead backlog refinement, sprint/PI planning, product discovery, stakeholder alignment, demos, and decision‑making activities.
• Use product metrics, customer insights, delivery data, and prioritization frameworks to make tradeoff recommendations and communicate rationale.
• Partner closely with Digital Experience Engineers, Business Application Engineers, Quality Engineers, platform teams, architects, design partners, and delivery leaders.
• Help teams maintain alignment between product outcomes, technical feasibility, user value, quality, delivery constraints, and federal mission priorities.
• Facilitate collaboration across business and technical stakeholders and communicate complex requirements, risks, and decisions in clear language.
• Use AFS‑approved AI‑assisted tools and workflows to accelerate research synthesis, requirements analysis, backlog refinement, documentation, and product decision support while validating outputs.
• As your experience grows, own larger product areas, define product vision and success measures, mentor others, and influence roadmap and prioritization decisions across teams or programs.

Here’s what you need:

• Professional experience in product management, business analysis, requirements engineering, product ownership, Agile facilitation, or comparable client‑facing delivery work, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience translating user, business, mission, or stakeholder needs into requirements, user stories, backlog items, acceptance criteria, or delivery priorities.
• Experience collaborating with technical teams and communicating effectively with both business and technical stakeholders.
• Understanding of Agile/Scrum/SAFe delivery, backlog management, iterative development, and release planning.
• For candidates with deeper experience, demonstrated ability to independently own product areas, lead discovery and prioritization, mentor others, and influence cross‑team product decisions.

Bonus points if you have:

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience with Jira, Azure DevOps, Confluence, Miro, Lucidchart,