Senior Product Strategy Leader—AI-Driven Digital Transformation

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

Job summary

Accenture is seeking a senior product strategy leader to guide clients through ambiguity, connect product strategy to operating models, and drive AI-enabled transformation. You will lead engagements with senior stakeholders, shape investment priorities, and mobilize cross‑functional teams to execute complex digital initiatives.

The role emphasizes defining product direction, governance, and delivered roadmaps, while fostering client relationships and thought leadership across industries.

Qualifications

• Minimum 9 years of experience in product management, digital product strategy, consulting, digital transformation, innovation, or related fields.
• Experience leading client‑facing engagements 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 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 is defined and adopted.
• AI opportunities are identified, value 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

Consulting skills

AI transformation

Operating model

Leadership

Job description

Accenture is seeking a senior product strategy leader to guide clients through ambiguity, connect product strategy to operating models, and drive AI-enabled transformation. You will lead engagements with senior stakeholders, shape investment priorities, and mobilize cross‑functional teams to execute complex digital initiatives.

The role emphasizes defining product direction, governance, and delivered roadmaps, while fostering client relationships and thought leadership across industries.