Consultant, Product Manager

About This Role

This Consultant, Product Manager role involves owning and prioritizing the product backlog for a specific product, platform, or client workstream within Deloitte's HC Forward initiative. You will translate product strategy, stakeholder needs, and user feedback into actionable requirements, collaborating with various teams to plan, sequence, and validate product increments.

Responsibilities

• Own and maintain a single, prioritized product backlog
• Translate product strategy, business requirements, and user needs into epics, features, user stories, and acceptance criteria
• Refine and re-prioritize the backlog based on business value, dependencies, risk, and stakeholder input
• Make day-to-day scope and sequencing decisions and escalate tradeoffs that affect roadmap commitments
• Partner with delivery leads, Scrum Masters, engineering, and design teams to plan and execute delivery increments
• Participate in backlog refinement, sprint planning, sprint reviews, and retrospectives
• Serve as the delivery team's primary contact for requirements clarification, priority questions, and scope decisions
• Review completed work against acceptance criteria and definitions of done
• Engage business stakeholders, external clients, end users, and Product Management to gather feedback, communicate progress and risks, support release readiness, and help resolve delivery dependencies and blockers

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree
• 3+ years of experience in a Product Owner or Business Analyst role, including ownership of a product backlog in an Agile delivery environment
• 2 years of experience working on Agile or Scrum delivery teams
• 2 years of experience translating business requirements into epics, user stories, and acceptance criteria
• 2 years of experience in a consulting or professional services organization
• Ability to travel 0-50%, on average, based on the work you do and the clients and industries/sectors you serve
• Limited immigration sponsorship may be available
• Ability to work independently and collaborate as part of a team
• Effective written and verbal communication skills
• Meticulous attention to detail and quality of work product
• Ability to build and sustain professional relationships
• Ability to lead projects or workstreams
• Ability to manage and prioritize multiple tasks in a fast-paced and dynamic environment
• Strong interpersonal skills and professional demeanor
• Ability to meet deadlines
• Ability to provide clear guidance to others

Nice to have:

• Experience using Jira or Azure DevOps to manage Agile delivery work