Remote Associate Director, Product Software & Transformation

Hidden Jobs; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Hidden Jobs in the United States is seeking an Engagement Manager-level consultant to lead value creation engagements for PE clients across product, software and tech. You will structure ambiguous problems, align workstreams, and synthesize evidence-based recommendations that tie strategic ambition to feasibility and execution.

Responsibilities span leading client engagements, shaping hypotheses, building analyses, and delivering an executive-ready storyline with senior stakeholders across

Qualifications

• Experience leading complex client engagements at senior consulting levels.
• Strong ability to structure ambiguous problems into actionable workstreams.
• Proven track record communicating outcomes to senior executives.

Responsibilities

• Lead value creation engagements day to day, defining key questions, building the workplan, managing workstreams, and keeping teams focused on the issues that matter most.
• Bring structure to complex product, software, and transformation challenges, breaking broad opportunities into clear hypotheses, analyses, workstreams, and decision points.
• Develop compelling executive-level narratives that synthesize analysis, client input, and specialist perspectives into practical recommendations.
• Build trusted relationships with senior stakeholders across business, product, technology, and finance, helping clients navigate competing priorities.
• Translate effectively between commercial and technical audiences so recommendations reflect business priorities, product realities, architecture implications, and delivery feasibility.
• Link product, software, and transformation initiatives to value creation economics, including opportunity sizing, business cases, investment requirements, benefits, trade-offs, and execution risks.
• Challenge assumptions, pressure-test recommendations, and identify where deeper product, engineering, architecture, data, cybersecurity, or transformation expertise is needed.
• Drive engagements beyond analysis toward clear decisions, prioritized actions, and a pragmatic path from recommendation to execution.

Skills

Engagement leadership

Strategy consulting

Hypothesis-driven analysis

Stakeholder management

Executive storytelling

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

Hidden Jobs in the United States is seeking an Engagement Manager-level consultant to lead value creation engagements for PE clients across product, software and tech. You will structure ambiguous problems, align workstreams, and synthesize evidence-based recommendations that tie strategic ambition to feasibility and execution.

Responsibilities span leading client engagements, shaping hypotheses, building analyses, and delivering an executive-ready storyline with senior stakeholders across