Product Manager - Product Engineering
Deloitte10 months ago
Columbus, OH, United States
Hybrid
Full-time
Junior Level (1-3 years)
Job Description
Position Overview
A Product Manager is a senior individual contributor responsible for ensuring a product's value and viability within a product line. This role involves leading empowered, cross-functional product teams to solve moderate complexity customer problems that align with high value business needs. The Product Manager is accountable for the product's success, from vision to execution, and collaborates closely with various functions and stakeholders to deliver valuable, viable, usable, and feasible solutions.
Recruiting for this role ends on 11/6/2025.
Key Responsibilities
- Product Accountability
- Responsible and accountable for the product's value and viability, including profit and loss.
- Formulate and achieve Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for identified problems to solve.
- Drive strategy-aligned solutions to achieve product profit and loss objectives.
- Measure KPIs and analyze outcomes to inform future strategies.
- Vision and Strategy
- Co-create, own, and evangelize the product vision, strategy, and roadmap.
- Align product objectives with the product line and business goals.
- Collaborate with business stakeholders, engineering, experience, and delivery.
- Market and User Engagement
- Conduct user research and competitive analysis.
- Engage the team with users and stakeholders through continuous research and direct interactions.
- Guide the team toward solutions that address priority user and business needs.
- Apply analytical skills to analyze data and derive actionable insights.
- Adopt innovative and experimental approaches to solving complex problems.
- Collaboration and Teamwork
- Work side-by-side with cross-functional (business, engineering, experience, and delivery) team members to achieve KPI outcomes.
- Promote a product operating model that emphasizes outcomes over output.
- Build empowered teams and product communities that exhibit collective product ownership.
- Continuous Improvement
- Remove obstacles for the team and ensure smooth flow of continuous value achievement.
- Promote and drive rapid, emergent, and ongoing learning and adaptation to meet objectives.
- Drive innovation and improve processes to eliminate waste and accelerate value achievement.
- Spread knowledge and best practices within the product vertical community.
Required Qualifications
- Education: Bachelor's degree in business, Marketing, Engineering, or a related field.
- 8+ years of proven experience in lean product management or related roles.
- 3+ years of enterprise scale experience across multiple business areas.
- Ability to travel up to 20%, on average, based on the work you do and the clients and industries/sectors you serve.
- Limited immigration sponsorship may be available.
Preferred Qualifications
- Preferred Education: An MBA or related advanced degree is preferred.
- Preferred Experience: Demonstrated experience in modern product craft of delivering the right thing, in the right way, at the right time. Significant experience in lean product management and domain-specific tools, methods, and practices. Proven accountability for value, viability, and P&L objectives for both the product and an empowered product team.
- Preferred Skills: Clear and effective communication with team members, stakeholders, and customers; excellent collaboration abilities; leadership skills to inspire cross-functional teams; a deep understanding of customer-centric practices; strategic thinking to align product vision with broader business objectives; exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills; and the ability to navigate complexity and uncertainty.
- Preferred Personal Traits: Strong leadership capabilities, a customer-centric mindset, the ability to work effectively as an individual contributor within a collaborative team, and a humble, curious, learning-forward attitude. A preference for incremental action supported by evidence, along with experience in lean solutions and rapid, inexpensive experimentation.
Benefits & Perks
- Compensation: A wage range estimate of $102,500 to $210,600 taking into account skill sets, experience, and other business needs. Note that hiring at or near the top of the range is uncommon and decisions depend on individual circumstances.
- You may also be eligible to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program, subject to program rules and individual/organizational performance.
- For applicants needing accommodation, please visit: Deloitte Accommodation Information
Required Skills
Strategic Thinking
P&L Responsibility
Analytical Skills
Cross-Functional Leadership
Product Management
Lean Methodologies
Customer-Centricity
User Research
Effective Communication