Product Owner

We are:

Accenture Song accelerates growth and value for our clients through sustained customer relevance. As part of Accenture, we combine creativity, technology, and intelligence to deliver exceptional experiences that drive business outcomes. Our capabilities span ideation to execution: growth, product and experience design; technology and experience platforms; creative, media and marketing strategy; and campaign, content, and channel orchestration.

With strong client relationships and deep industry expertise, we help our clients operate at the speed of life through the unlimited potential of imagination, technology, and intelligence. At Accenture Song, we believe in creating experiences that are human-centric, impactful, and sustainable. Visit us at: Accenture Song.

Digital Products create value for our clients, their employees, and their customers. We design and build impactful experiences fueled by technology that change the way people work and live. Our team collaborates cross-functionally across the US and Canada, leveraging expertise in product strategy, design, innovation, and delivery transformation at scale. By integrating design thinking, user-experience research, and impeccable development for native mobile, web, and embedded systems, we bring clarity to any omni-channel product vision.

You are:
Are you a passionate Product Owner who thrives in a fast-paced delivery environment?
At Accenture Song, we solve complex problems and build intelligent, human-centric experiences across digital platforms that change the world through innovative solutions. If this excites you, let’s connect!

As a Product Owner within Accenture Song, you’ll bring a keen desire to positively impact the humans around you, collaborate and deliver products by connecting your skills and know-how of diverse teams and design tools. You’ll lead with creativity, technical feasibility, and strategic collaboration to bring a vision to life, setting your team on the path to success and delivering lasting value to our clients.

The work: 

You’ll work closely with designers, engineers, and stakeholders to turn ideas and policies into well-defined, buildable features, while keeping delivery grounded in real user and business needs.

• Ensures customer and stakeholder value is delivered by the product team through clear feature alignment to benefit hypotheses / value.
• Craft a compelling quantitative business case that ties business impact delivered by product to prioritized features.
• Understand a client’s business strategy and industry and the ability to craft product recommendations to deliver against business objectives.
• Ability to engage with cross-functional teams to clarify requirements, surface dependencies, and support effective delivery.
• Ownership mentality – demonstrating a clear accountability for building products that make customers feel job, delight, and trust and passion for the product craft and practice.
• Write and maintain detailed requirements, acceptance criteria, and workflows.  Document decisions, assumptions, and constraints to maintain traceability and transparency.
• Ability to manage senior executive clients and ensure delivery of key project deliverables.
• Ability to generate and curate long-term client relationships and build long-term client programs.
• Strategic product thinker – ability to identify new opportunities in changing technical and market landscape.
• Enables continuous communication and manages client, customer, and other stakeholder feedback by synthesizing and integrating it in the product roadmap.
• Ability to influence with cross-functional collaboration skills and senior level audiences to gain buy-in and support to progress product development.
• Sufficient understanding of technology strategy to support in communication to non-technical and senior audiences at a level that is digestible and understandable.
• Proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment. 
• Able to operate in evolving problem spaces and take initiative to help turn unclear requirements into actionable next steps.

Here’s what you’ll need:

• Minimum 3 years of management and delivery experience.
• Minimum 3 years of experience with proven ability to create, manage, and deliver a successful Product Roadmap.
• A minimum of a high school diploma or GED is required for this position.
• Must be eligible for Reliability Clearance Status.

Bonus points if:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years) work experience.
• Experience with client-facing responsibility or accountability for product delivery.
• Experience with people leadership, coaching, and training.
• Analytical and strategic decision-making coupled with product planning and prioritization.
• Solid understanding of product team roles and responsibilities within a full-scale product team.
• Extensive knowledge of product delivery models from inception to execution.
• Strong analytical, data-driven mindset that keeps the end user at the heart of product creation.
• Ability to partner with clients to set goals and measures of success for product teams.
• Conflict management skills within planning and prioritization processes.
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills.
• Proficiency in tools like JIRA, Rally, and Version One for tracking project scope.
• Comfort in creating content from scratch to tell the product story.
• Experience in SAFe, Scrum, Lean, and Kanban methodologies.
• Certification in Agile (POPM, APM, CSPO).

Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location,
role, skill set, and level of experience. As required by local law, Accenture provides a reasonable range of compensation, based on full-time
employment, for roles that may be hired as set forth below.
The recruiting efforts for this position are intended to fill a brand new position.
The base pay range shown below is intended as a guideline to reflect the majority of offers for this role.
It does not represent a maximum limit — in some cases, actual compensation may exceed the range where appropriate.

Information on benefits is here:

Role Location                                    Annual Salary Range

British Columbia/Ontario                $69,450 to $119,450

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

Visit us at www.accenture.com 

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