As a Senior Product Manager at Publicis Sapient, you act as your clients' trusted advisor in leading the overall vision, strategy, roadmap, and prioritization 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 center 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 paints, 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, prioritized features that will realize the product vision and value
- Validate and present the business case to the C-level executives and lead business reviews to ensure the team prioritizes 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 program increment (PI) objectives
- Collaborate with system architects to envision and prioritize 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
Qualifications Your skills and experience: - Deeply rooted in Agile, Lean, and continuous delivery principles that maximize flow of value with a passion to extend this understanding throughout the organization
- Demonstrated success creating digital products vision, strategy, experience, and enterprise solutions and services - from ideation to launch, including engineering and operational quality
- Experience working with a multi-disciplinary team on customer-focused products and services
- Proven ability in collaborating and leading Program Increment (PI) cycles
- Significant industry knowledge
- Proven ability to prioritize multiple demands and obtain buy-in from stakeholders
- Practice in workshop facilitation to cultivate the ideation
- Ability to define financials, ROI, KPIs, and forecasts, with success leveraging data to make decisions about product feature increments
- Proven track record of working with senior client stakeholder and diverse teams as a servant leader and steward of economic and customer value
- Mastery in leading change and inspire others to change behaviors
- Influencer in continuous learning and innovation
- Fluent in German (verbal and written, business environment, complex concepts) and English
- Ability to travel occasionally
Set Yourself Apart With: - Certified SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager designation
- Certified Agile Product Manager designation
Additional Information Benefits of working here: - We work with cutting-edge technology, which has always been part of our DNA and we want our employees to define what technologies our clients use next
- We provide many learning opportunities to deepen your skillset and support your professional growth
- We offer numerous discounts on travel, cultural and leisure activities.
- We put the well-being of our people first and organize various health initiatives
- We offer you a vibrant workplace culture with many different community events throughout the year
As part of our dedication to an inclusive and diverse workforce, Publicis Sapient is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity without regard for race, colour, nati