Product Manager, Avanade X

Title: Product Manager- Avanade X

A change agent with one foot in the future

What is Avanade X?

Over Avanade's 20+ years, we've delivered the most intelligent, engaging, industry leading, award-winning experiences on the Microsoft ecosystem. As technology and human expectations evolve, we see incredible opportunities for customers, products, and workplaces—where imagination is the only limit. Launch a career where you can truly do what matters.

Come join us

The Product Manager - Digital Products & Services is a lead role within the Digital Products & Services Practice in the Avanade Business Group for a region. The Digital Products & Services Practice powers business invention, disrupt industries, and create the ultimate competitive advantage by creating products and experiences people love. Together we do what matters.

The Product Manager - Digital Products & Services is a pivotal role that blends market, sales and solutioning, people, and delivery excellence. In this role, you will help transform how regional account teams engage their clients and sell transformative and impactful digital products and services. By establishing harmony between the conceptual and the pragmatic - linking product strategy and development to the overall business vision from discovery through delivery, you will be laser focused on the needs and behaviors of consumers and users while ensuring alignment to business objectives. You will lead the strategic product vision, initiate product planning, manage implementation, drive delivery and lead ongoing iterations & optimization. Over time, you will help build a talented team of product leads, in addition to up levelling the talent of the regional Avanade Experiences’ business and engineering consultants.

Directly supporting the Digital Products & Services Practice Lead, you work with targeted account teams, client account leaders, sellers, industry leaders, and offering leaders across the Avanade landscape, as well as with Accenture, Microsoft, and partner teams in various capacities. You will help build a talented team of product leads, in addition to up levelling the talent of the regional Avanade Experiences’ business and engineering consultants. Some travel required, to be discussed during the interview.

What You’ll Do

Product Discovery

• Reads between the lines of opportunity definition to tease out core business problem.
• Research market forces impacting client.
• Blueprints ideas to spark client's business development journey/identifies customers' unmet needs.
• Owns a customer problem and stewardship of product feature (sets)
• Leads product vision articulation and proves viability/product market fit.
• Produces quality research output to inform direction of engagement execution, including competitive analysis.
• Skillfully designs complex roadmaps with a feature (set) prioritization validated with market data

Product Development

• Uses rapid experimentation to learn & iterate
• Leads prototyping efforts to prove value quickly
• Designs product loops to activate new features.
• Partners with delivery on value-driven planning.
• Prioritizes development throughput and incoming client requests .
• Executes experiments/design experiments
• Writes use cases, user stories for development consumption
• Travel as necessary to client sites

Skills And Experiences

• Product expertise, including analyzing business problems and working to prioritize and create engaging experiences
• A strong understanding of technology, how to evaluate solution options, and how to optimize technology to build outstanding products
• Experience with agile methodologies and an understanding of roles + responsibilities in various development methodologies
• Clear communication skills and storytelling ability with the emotional intelligence to adjust your style based upon your audience
• Experience analyzing metrics and summarizing into relevant insights
• Cross-functional collaboration - willing to work across multiple crafts (Creative, Data & Analytics, Advisory, Technology, Program, etc.)
• Strong appreciation for design and user experience
• Demonstrated experience in Product Strategy and/or Management
• Previous experience interfacing with and selling to executive level clients.
• Experience working on multiple Product engagements in a highly matrixed external client facing environment, with Talent, Project, & Budget.

About You

Characteristics that can spell success for this role:

• Autonomous, enterprising, and positive thinker
• Resilient, adaptable, flexible
• Intellectually curious and passionate about tech
• Storyteller and engaging content creator

Enjoy your career

Some of the best things about working at Avanade

• Opportunity to work for Microsoft’s Global Alliance Partner of the Year (14 years in a row), with exceptional development and training (minimum 80 hours per year for training and paid certifications)
• Real-time access to technical and skilled resources globally
• Dedicated career advisor to encourage your growth
• Engaged and helpful coworkers genuinely interested in you

Find out more about some of our benefits [1] here.

A great place to work

As you bring your skills and abilities to Avanade, you’ll get distinctive experiences, limitless learning, and ambitious growth in return. As we continue to build our diverse and inclusive culture, we become even more innovative and creative, helping us better serve our clients and our communities. You’ll join a community of smart, supportive collaborators to lift, mentor, and guide you, but to also lean on your expertise. You get a company purpose-built for business-critical, leading-edge technology solutions, committed to improving the way humans work, interact, and live. It’s all here, so take a closer look!

We work hard to provide an inclusive, diverse culture with a deep sense of belonging for all our employees. Visit our [2] Inclusion & Diversity page.

Create a future for our people that focuses on:

• Expanding your thinking • Experimenting courageously • Learning and pivoting

Inspire greatness in our people by

• Empowering every voice • Encouraging boldness • Celebrating progress

Accelerate the impact of our people by

• Amazing the client • Prioritizing what matters • Acting as one

Learn more

To learn more about the types of projects our Analytics team works on check out these case studies:

• [3] Avanade X | Avanade: People first
• [4] Avanade X | Avanade: Make what matters

Interested in knowing what’s going on inside Avanade? Check out our blogs:

• [5] Avanade Insights - exchange ideas that drive tomorrow’s innovation
• [6] Inside Avanade - explore what life is like working at Avanade

Role Location: Range of Starting Pay for role

NY State Locations: $125,000-$175,000

References

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1. https://www.avanade.com/en-gb/career/benefits
2. https://www.avanade.com/en-us/about-avanade/inclusion-and-diversity
3. https://www.avanade.com/en/solutions/avanade-x?videoid=6304523720001
4. https://www.avanade.com/en/solutions/avanade-x?videoid=6314537823112
5. https://www.avanade.com/en/blogs/avanade-insights
6. https://www.avanade.com/en/blogs/inside-avanade