About the position
A Lead Product Manager is an expert 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 complex customer problems that align with strategic business needs. The Lead 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. The Lead Product Manager plays a crucial role in ensuring the success of our most strategic, complex products by balancing customer needs with business objectives. This role requires a blend of strategic vision, analytical skills, and collaborative teamwork to deliver valuable, viable, usable, and feasible solutions. It demands a high degree of experience and expertise in the modern product management craft and a drive for continuous improvement.
Responsibilities
- 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
- Co-create, own, and evangelize the product vision, strategy, and roadmap
- Align product objectives with the product line and business goals
- Conduct user research and competitive analysis
- Engage the team with users and stakeholders through continuous research and direct interactions
- Collaborate and guide the team toward solutions that address priority user and business needs
- Work side-by-side with cross-functional team members to achieve KPI outcomes
- Promote a product operating model that emphasizes outcomes over output
- Build empowered teams and product communities who exhibit collective product ownership
- 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 improvement of the process to drive out waste and accelerate value achievement
- Spread knowledge and best practices within the product vertical community
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in business, Marketing, Engineering, or a related field
- 8+ years of proven experience in product management or related roles
- Proven accountability for value, viability and P&L objectives for a product
- Demonstrated experience in modern product craft of delivering the right thing, in the right way, at the right time
- Ability to analyze data and derive actionable insights
- Innovative and experimental approach to solving complex problems
- Clear and effective communication with team members, stakeholders, and customers
- Ability to lead and inspire cross-functional teams, fostering collaboration and collective movement toward product goals
- Deep understanding of customer needs and engagement patterns
- Ability to develop and execute a strategic vision for the product, aligning it with broader business objectives
- Expert analytical and problem-solving skills
- Exceptional communication and collaboration abilities
- Ability to influence at all organizational levels through inclusion and leadership
- Detail-oriented, organized, and visionary
- Learning-forward, experimental, and value-oriented mindset
- Customer-centric methods and practices
- Expert in modern product management craft and domain
- Ability to navigate complexity and uncertainty
- Broad knowledge across multiple business areas
- Quick to reach expert-level knowledge within the product domain being served
- Strong leadership capabilities
- Customer-centric mindset
- Ability to work as an individual contributor in a collaborative, cross-functional team
- Humble, curious, and learning-forward mindset
- Favor small step action and evidence over detailed upfront planning and precision aiming
- Experience with lean solutions and rapid, inexpensive experimentation to emerge the right thing, in the right way, at the right time
- High levels of continuous customer and user engagement
Nice-to-haves
- An MBA or related advanced degree is beneficial
- 15+ years of experience in product management or related roles
Benefits
- Discretionary annual incentive program based on individual and organizational performance
- Broad range of benefits offered by Deloitte
