Accenture Federal Services Product Manager at Accenture Federal Services responsible for connecting mission needs, user value, stakeholder priorities, and technical delivery. Drives product management, business analysis, and Agile delivery to decide what to build and deliver high-value outcomes for federal clients.
Responsibilities
Discover and clarify mission, user, stakeholder, operational, and business needs through interviews, workshops, analysis, and collaboration.
Translate needs into product goals, roadmaps, epics, features, user stories, acceptance criteria, backlog items, and release priorities.
Support or lead backlog refinement, sprint/PI planning, product discovery, stakeholder alignment, demos, and decision-making activities.
Use product metrics, customer insights, delivery data, and prioritization frameworks to make tradeoff recommendations and communicate rationale.
Partner closely with Digital Experience Engineers, Business Application Engineers, Quality Engineers, platform teams, architects, design partners, and delivery leaders.
Help teams maintain alignment between product outcomes, technical feasibility, user value, quality, delivery constraints, and federal mission priorities.
Facilitate collaboration across business and technical stakeholders and communicate complex requirements, risks, and decisions in clear language.
Use AFS-approved AI-assisted tools and workflows to accelerate research synthesis, requirements analysis, backlog refinement, documentation, and product decision support while validating outputs.
As your experience grows, own larger product areas, define product vision and success measures, mentor others, and influence roadmap and prioritization decisions across teams or programs.
Professional experience in product management, business analysis, requirements engineering, product ownership, Agile facilitation, or comparable client-facing delivery work, or equivalent practical experience.
Experience translating user, business, mission, or stakeholder needs into requirements, user stories, backlog items, acceptance criteria, or delivery priorities.
Experience collaborating with technical teams and communicating effectively with both business and technical stakeholders.
Qualification
For candidates with deeper experienceBachelor's degree in BusinessExperience with JiraExperience with RICEExperience with federal consultingProduct OwnerAbility to facilitate discussionsAbility to work in a hybridEligibility RequirementsAs required by local law$112Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
Required
Understanding of Agile/Scrum/SAFe delivery, backlog management, iterative development, and release planning.
For candidates with deeper experience, demonstrated ability to independently own product areas, lead discovery and prioritization, mentor others, and influence cross-team product decisions.
Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
Experience with Jira, Azure DevOps, Confluence, Miro, Lucidchart, Rally, or comparable product and delivery tools.
Experience with RICE, WSJF, OKRs, product analytics, customer research, service design, journey mapping, or process modeling.
Experience with federal consulting, government systems, regulated environments, or mission-oriented delivery.
Product Owner, Scrum Master, SAFe, Agile, business analysis, or product-management certification.
Experience working across product management, business analysis, and Agile facilitation responsibilities.
Ability to facilitate discussions, organize ambiguity, communicate tradeoffs, and take increasing ownership of product or stakeholder workstreams.
U.S. Citizenship required.
Ability to work with federal clients and comply with applicable AFS, client, security, and program requirements.
Ability to work in a hybrid, remote, or client-site environment as program needs require.
Preferred
Eligibility Requirements:
As required by local law, Accenture Federal Services provides reasonable ranges of compensation for hired roles based on labor costs in the states of California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, and the District of Columbia. The base pay range for this position in these locations is shown below. Compensation for roles at Accenture Federal Services varies depending on a wide array of factors, including but not limited to office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. Accenture Federal Services offers a wide variety of benefits. You can find more information on benefits here. We accept applications on an on-going basis and there is no fixed deadline to apply.
The pay range for the states of California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, and the District of Columbia is:
$112,700—$178,800 USD
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