Project Role: Product Owner

Project Role Description: Drives the vision for the product by being the voice of the customer, following a human-centered design approach. Shapes and manages the product roadmap and product backlog and ensures the product team consistently deliver on the clients needs and wants. Validates and tests ideas through recurrent feedback loops to ensure knowledge discovery informs timely direction changes.

Must have skills: Software Product Management

Good to have skills: NA

Minimum 12 year(s) of experience is required

Educational Qualification: 15 years full time education

Summary:

In this position, you would be working within Accenture Products and Platforms (APP). APP operates a portfolio of product-mindset business units inside Accenture – each with a shared mission to codify industry and functional knowledge into valuable and differentiated software assets for sale to Accenture clients. APP teams overlay Pragmatic frameworks and Agile methodologies to create value and deliver excellence every day. APP products and platforms accelerate time-to-value, ensure customer satisfaction, and drive productive, long-term client engagements. APP offers unique and rewarding opportunities and software career paths within Accenture.
The Software Product Manager position is in the Accenture Products and Platforms (APP) organization in Technology. The position will work with cross-functional teams that design and develop commercial software products providing value for our clients. Deliver market-leading software platforms, products, and assets for Accenture.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Developing and launching software products
• Assessing new products, markets, and competition. Define product differentiation.
• Assessing new technological shifts and industry direction
• Business Plan development
• Developing product value propositions
• Managing a product’s life cycle
• Roadmap development
• Product backlog and prioritization
• Product Marketing GTM launch planning
• Successfully understands and communicates the Technology, Business and User Experience
• Demonstrated experience and knowledge leading product idea-creation, initiation and start-up of new products.
• Demonstrated experience and knowledge with Products, Platforms and Cloud Economy
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Professional & Technical Skills:

• Demonstrated teamwork and collaboration in a professional setting
• Proven ability to build, manage and foster a team-oriented environment
• Proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment
• Identifies Market problems, Industry direction and identifies requirements
• Collects customer feedback, win/loss analysis
• Identifies market potential, opportunities, helps build P&L on Products
• Builds Roadmaps
• Interacts with senior management on matters where they may need to gain acceptance on an alternate approach.

Additional Information:

• Bachelor’s Degree with a minimum of 10 years experience as a Software Product Manager
• This position is based at our Bengaluru office.
• A 15 years full time education is required.
• Good to have: Certified in the Pragmatic Marketing Framework
• Good to have: Agile methodology certification
• Good to have: Certifications on one or more of the major Cloud providers

15 years full time education

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.
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