Senior Product Strategy Lead, AI-Driven Transformation

Accenture; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 133,000 - 302,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture is seeking a senior product strategy leader in California to drive digital product strategy, operating model transformation, and AI-enabled change for clients. You will guide executive stakeholders, connect customer needs to business goals, and mobilize cross-functional teams to execute complex programs.

You will mentor teams, shape delivery approaches, and contribute to business development while maintaining a strong client relationship focus and delivering high-impact roadmaps.

Qualifications

• Minimum 9 years of experience in product management, digital product strategy, consulting, digital transformation, innovation, or related fields.
• Experience leading client-facing engagements or major workstreams with Directors, VPs, and C-suite stakeholders.
• Experience developing product strategies, transformation plans, operating model recommendations, or innovation roadmaps.
• Strong consulting skills, including executive communication, workshop facilitation, structured problem-solving, and stakeholder management.
• Demonstrated ability to define and mobilize product operating models, including governance, roles, team structures, delivery ways of working, and blended client and consulting teams.
• Demonstrated understanding of how AI can create value across product strategy, delivery, operations, and customer experience.
• Experience using AI to augment your own work and improve the quality, speed, or effectiveness of analysis, planning, or decision-making.
• Familiarity with agentic workflows, AI governance, transparency, human oversight, and responsible adoption considerations.
• Strong leadership, collaboration, and team development skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead client engagements focused on digital product strategy, product operating model transformation, and AI-enabled change.
• Advise senior client stakeholders on product vision, investment priorities, product organization design, governance, and ways of working.
• Define product strategies that connect customer needs, business goals, market context, and technical realities into clear direction and actionable plans.
• Define and mobilize the operating model required to deliver product strategy, including roles, governance, team structure, delivery ways of working, and blended client and Accenture resource models.
• Assess current-state product capabilities, team structures, processes, and delivery models, then develop target-state recommendations and transformation roadmaps.
• Help clients identify where AI, automation, and agentic workflows can improve product development, service delivery, decision-making, and business outcomes.
• Facilitate executive alignment across product, business, design, engineering, data, and operations stakeholders.
• Guide teams through trade-off decisions across desirability, feasibility, viability, and organizational readiness.
• Lead cross-functional teams from strategic framing through implementation planning and delivery oversight where needed.
• Develop high-quality client deliverables, including assessments, business cases, roadmaps, executive presentations, and strategic recommendations.
• Mentor team members and help shape team culture, methods, and capability development.
• Contribute to business development through proposals, client discussions, recruiting, and thought leadership.
• Senior stakeholders are aligned on product vision, priorities, and investment decisions.
• A clear product strategy and roadmap connects customer needs, business outcomes, and delivery feasibility.
• The product operating model (teams, roles, governance, rituals, decision rights) is defined and adopted.
• AI opportunities are identified, value is quantified where possible, and responsible adoption is built into plans.
• Engagement teams deliver high-quality outputs on time, with clear recommendations and next steps.

Skills

Product strategy

Client management

AI in product

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Job description

Accenture is seeking a senior product strategy leader in California to drive digital product strategy, operating model transformation, and AI-enabled change for clients. You will guide executive stakeholders, connect customer needs to business goals, and mobilize cross-functional teams to execute complex programs.

You will mentor teams, shape delivery approaches, and contribute to business development while maintaining a strong client relationship focus and delivering high-impact roadmaps.