Technical Product and Innovation Manager

EY; Georgia; On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

EY is seeking a Technical Product & Innovation Manager to guide a product-ledTalent technology portfolio by shaping governance, investment strategy, and a multi-horizon roadmap. You will align strategic priorities with user needs, manage delivery capacity, and drive measurable business outcomes across enterprise platforms.

The role emphasizes client zero initiatives, governance forums, and a data-driven approach to adoption, quality, and value realization, in collaboration with the

Qualifications

• Experience in technical product management within HR or talent technology.
• Ability to define technology investment strategy and roadmap.
• Experience leading Client Zero, pilot or incubation initiatives at scale.
• Experience coordinating roadmaps and backlogs across business and technical teams.
• Knowledge of enterprise HR platforms or service-delivery tech is preferred.
• Familiarity with integrations, APIs, data flows, security, and platform lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Define talent technology investment strategy and multi-horizon roadmap.
• Coordinate intake, acceptance criteria, and prioritization with stakeholders.
• Lead Client Zero initiatives from use-case to scale and adoption.
• Oversee backlog prioritization, agile delivery, and release readiness.
• Ensure governance, risk, and value realization across portfolio.

Skills

Technical product management

HR or talent technology

Enterprise platforms

Digital transformation

Product operations

Technology consulting

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

ServiceNow

Job description

We’ll help you succeed in a globally connected powerhouse of diverse teams and take your career wherever you want it to go. Join EY and help to build a better working world.

We're looking for a Technical Product & Innovation Manager to support the Digital Talent Strategy Lead in establishing and maturing a product-led organization for talent technology. This role will shape the governance, investment strategy, technical roadmap, and operating disciplines required to manage the portfolio at enterprise scale, while leading Client Zero initiatives that connect strategy, user needs, and technical delivery. Working closely with the Demand Management Lead, the role will align intake and demand priorities with investment choices, roadmap sequencing, delivery capacity, adoption, and measurable people and business outcomes.

Technology Portfolio Strategy & Investment

• Define and implement the talent technology investment strategy and multi-horizon technical roadmap, translating business and Talent priorities into sequenced investment choices, modernization pathways, and measurable outcomes
• Maintain an integrated view of the talent technology inventory, portfolio, demand, delivery capacity, dependencies, technical debt, risk, cost, and value
• Prepare decision-ready recommendations that balance user value, strategic alignment, feasibility, effort, cost, risk, architectural fit, and expected outcomes
• Establish forums that connect strategy, investment decisions, demand, architecture, delivery, risk, and value realization with clear criteria and accountable decisions
• Track adoption, experience, quality, reliability, efficiency, cost, risk, and realized value and use evidence to recommend scaling, consolidation, or retirement decisions
• Align Talent leaders, users, product managers, technical teams, vendors, and implementation partners on outcomes, requirements, constraints, quality expectations, and commitments
• Partner with Demand Management to assess ideas, enhancements, integrations, defects, and modernization opportunities and clarify the problem, users, outcomes, constraints, and success measures
• Coordinate refinement, estimation, dependency management, release planning, prototyping, testing, UAT, launch readiness, and post-launch reviews with Enterprise Technology, Product Managers, and delivery partners

Client Zero Innovation & Scale

• Lead Client Zero talent technology initiatives from use-case definition through implementation, adoption, measurement, and readiness for broader scale
• Evaluate emerging capabilities, including generative AI, agentic workflows, automation, self-service, and platform releases, and move viable opportunities into governed experiments
• Manage an innovation and enhancement pipeline that advances high-value ideas through discovery, experimentation, launch, stabilization, adoption, and measurement
• Product organization design, governance, and operating model implementation
• Talent technology investment strategy and technical roadmap management
• Client Zero innovation, experimentation, and scale
• Integrated technology portfolio and value-based prioritization
• Backlog prioritization, agile delivery, UAT, quality management, and release readiness
• Enterprise platforms, integrations, data flows, security, privacy, and risk
• Define and activate a talent technology investment strategy and multi-horizon technical roadmap aligned to priorities, funding, architecture, dependencies, risks, and measurable value
• Launch a Client Zero pipeline that validates priority talent technology use cases through governed pilots and advances proven solutions toward enterprise scale
• Establish a reliable, integrated view of the talent technology inventory, roadmap, demand, dependencies, risks, investment choices, and decision points
• Implement a consistent intake-to-delivery process that improves requirement quality, prioritization, ownership clarity, and delivery predictability
• Build and actively manage an innovation and enhancement pipeline that moves high-value ideas from discovery through adoption and measurement

Qualifications

• Relevant experience in technical product management, HR or talent technology, enterprise platforms, digital transformation, product operations, or technology consulting
• Experience defining a technology investment strategy and technical roadmap that connect business priorities, architecture, funding, sequencing, capacity, risk, and value realization
• Experience leading Client Zero, internal-first, pilot, or incubation initiatives through implementation, adoption, measurement, and enterprise scale
• Experience managing roadmaps and backlogs, leading structured discovery, translating business needs into implementable requirements, and coordinating delivery across business and technical teams
• Experience with enterprise HR platforms or service-delivery technologies, with ServiceNow, employee portals, case and knowledge management, workflow automation, or comparable platforms preferred
• Working knowledge of integrations, APIs, data flows, security, privacy, technical debt, testing, release management, and platform lifecycle practices
• Strong analytical and financial judgment and a bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience in a relevant field

At EY, we harness our collective strength to empower you to shape your future with confidence through professional growth, personal fulfillment and an inclusive culture. We offer a comprehensive compensation and benefits package where you’ll be rewarded based on your performance and recognized for the value you bring to the business. Individual salaries within these ranges are determined through a wide variety of factors including but not limited to education, experience, knowledge, skills and geography. In addition, our Total Rewards package includes medical and dental coverage, pension and 401(k) plans, and a wide range of paid time off options.

Under our flexible vacation policy, you’ll decide how much vacation time you need based on your own personal circumstances. You’ll also be granted time off for designated EY Paid Holidays, Winter/Summer breaks, Personal/Family Care, and other leaves of absence when needed to support your physical, financial, and emotional well-being.

At EY, our values set the foundation for how we work and the behaviors we expect of our people. Any misrepresentation or falsification of information or lack of integrity at any point in the recruiting process may result in withdrawal of your candidacy, revocation of an offer or immediate termination of employment.

EY | Building a better working world

EY is building a better working world by creating new value for clients, people, society and the planet, while building trust in capital markets.

Enabled by data, AI and advanced technology, EY teams help clients shape the future with confidence and develop answers for the most pressing issues of today and tomorrow.

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