Strategic Outcome Product Lead — Senior Manager

EY; San Diego (CA); Hybrid; USD 202,000 - 420,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Dental coverage

Pension plan

Paid time off

Job summary

EY is seeking an Outcome/Product Lead to own ventures from discovery to measurable value, uniting users, practitioners, designers, engineers, and experts around a clear outcome. You’ll sit at the intersection of innovation, product management, and business transformation, focusing on outcomes over outputs.

You will lead cross‑functional teams, guide research and experiments, and shape strategic direction with a focus on adoption, governance, and lasting impact within EY’s Challenger program.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant field.
• 9-12+ years of relevant experience.
• Ownership of a product, service, or transformation from discovery through adoption and measurable improvement.
• Evidence of using research, data, and experiments to change direction and prioritize value.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary teams without direct authority over every contributor.
• Ability to define outcome measures, baselines, hypotheses, and safeguards against unintended impacts.
• Experience preparing operating owners to sustain delivery, manage risk, and track benefits.
• Travel and On-site requirements: This role requires up to 50% travel and flexibility to go into the office in a hybrid capacity.

Responsibilities

• Own the product vision, outcome hypothesis, priorities, roadmap, and scope from discovery through sustained value.
• Frame problems with users and practitioners, establishing baselines, success measures, assumptions, risks, and a clear window for learning.
• Lead research, prototypes, and experiments that test the most important assumptions and inform investment decisions.
• Align multidisciplinary partners, respect specialist approval rights, and escalate decisions beyond your authority.
• Partner with Product Insights to measure outcomes, surface unintended effects, and recommend whether to continue, pivot, stop, or scale.
• Prepare business and service owners to sustain adoption, support, controls, funding, and benefits after transfer.

Skills

Product judgment

User research

Cross-functional collaboration

Executive communication

AI knowledge

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Job description

EY is seeking an Outcome/Product Lead to own ventures from discovery to measurable value, uniting users, practitioners, designers, engineers, and experts around a clear outcome. You’ll sit at the intersection of innovation, product management, and business transformation, focusing on outcomes over outputs.

You will lead cross‑functional teams, guide research and experiments, and shape strategic direction with a focus on adoption, governance, and lasting impact within EY’s Challenger program.