Senior Product Transformation Leader

Publicis Sapient

Boston (MA)

On-site

USD 150,000 - 200,000

Full time

7 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation package

Comprehensive health benefits

Generous paid leave

Job summary

Publicis Sapient in Boston is seeking an experienced Product Manager / Product Transformation Lead to strengthen product management practices and adopt a modern Product Operating Model. This is a hands-on leadership role that connects strategy to execution, shapes product direction, prioritizes value, and improves customer and business outcomes.

Coaching and mentoring product teams will be essential as you enable cross-functional leaders and teams to adopt product-centric ways of working.

Qualifications

8+ years of experience in Product Management, Product Leadership, Product Transformation, Agile Delivery, or related roles.
Strong product discovery, strategy, roadmap development, prioritization, backlog management, value measurement, and outcome-driven planning.
Experience implementing Product Operating Models in complex enterprise organizations.
Ability to translate strategy into clear product direction and execution plans.
Experience partnering across product, engineering, design, data, business, and delivery functions.
Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills.
Formal Agile Coach experience is beneficial but not required.
Working knowledge of Agile and Lean practices, including Scrum and Kanban.

Responsibilities

Lead product management and Product Operating Model transformation initiatives within a complex enterprise environment.
Connect business strategy and customer needs to product vision, roadmaps, priorities, backlogs, and execution plans.
Own or guide product discovery, value definition, roadmap development, backlog management, and outcome-based planning.
Partner with business, product, technology, design, data, and executive stakeholders to improve decisions, alignment, and speed to value.
Help transition teams from project-based execution toward persistent product teams focused on customer and business outcomes.
Translate Product Operating Model principles into practical governance, operating rhythms, decision rights, team structures, and delivery practices.
Coach, mentor, or enable Product Managers, Product Owners, and product leaders through hands-on guidance, working sessions, and role modeling.
Facilitate workshops on product strategy, vision, discovery, customer journeys, roadmaps, prioritization, backlog development, and transformation planning.
Improve portfolio and product prioritization using product metrics, OKRs, value measurement, and continuous learning.
Establish scalable planning, lean governance, and delivery practices that improve predictability without losing focus on outcomes.
Identify and address organizational constraints affecting product delivery, team effectiveness, and value realization.
Partner with Agile Coaches, Scrum Masters, Release Train Engineers, Engineering leaders, Experience teams, and Delivery leaders to strengthen cross-functional execution.
Use tools such as Jira, Jira Align, Confluence, and related product or portfolio management platforms to support transparency and execution.
Capture and scale effective practices so client teams can sustain improvements independently.