Associate Director Product Management

Company Description

Publicis Sapient is a digital transformation partner helping established organizations get to their future, digitally enabled state, both in the way they work and the way they serve their customers. We help unlock value through a start-up mindset and modern methods, fusing strategy, consulting, and customer experience with agile engineering and problem-solving creativity. United by our core values and our purpose of helping people thrive in the brave pursuit of next, our 20,000+ people in 53 offices around the world combine experience across technology, data sciences, consulting, and customer obsession to accelerate our clients’ businesses through designing the products and services their customers truly value.

Job Description

Associate Director Product Management

As an Associate Director Product Management, you act as your clients’ trusted advisor in leading the overall vision, strategy, roadmap, and prioritisation for a specific digital product, or products, within an engagement. You will collaborate with clients undertaking major Digital Business Transformation (DBT) engagements to understand their business, end-customer needs, and then constantly deliver value with fast increment cycles.

Your Impact

• Partner with client(s), strategists, experience leads, and architects to frame business goals and value pools from which we can shape product propositions that provide transformative business outcomes and customer experience
• Develop product vision, strategy, market / user research, by keeping the customer at the centre of everything we do while using design thinking tools
• Represent client in ideation workshops with cross-functional leaders where you identify new ideas, customer needs, pain points, and solution options
• Develop solution hypotheses iteratively, based on user research, and industry and market trend analysis
• Establish customer journey mapping to guide product development; then validate that learning with user testing
• Translate product vision into a roadmap containing well-defined, prioritised features that will realise the product vision and value
• Validate and present the business case to senior executives / stakeholders and lead business reviews to ensure the team prioritises the right features
• Serve as a voice of the customer among the cross-functional team, always understanding the customer needs
• Establish objective goals for the product with success and acceptance criteria using meaningful metrics, KPIs, and quantifiable business outcomes
• Masterfully apply Lean Agile practices and frameworks
• Collaborate with product owners, solution managers, and cross-functional product managers, to ensure alignment towards the same programme increment (PI) objectives
• Collaborate with system architects to envision and prioritise system enablers
• Represent industry best practice and market trends to assist the client in maintaining competitive advantage
• Build and maintain a trusting relationship with the client, teams, and vendors; develop influence without authority
• Inspire, lead, and mentor, a high-performing team of Product Analysts to continually facilitate improvements in developing and enhancing best-in-class digital products and services

Skills & Experience

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A Tip from the Hiring Manager

A successful Product Manager at Publicis Sapient combines leadership skills, rooted on customer centricity, with tactical product management skills to drive the clients and team in releasing program increments every 10-12 weeks (or applicable frequency at client’s organization).

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