**Business Title:** Lead Product Manager, Digital and AI Capabilities
**Requisition Number:** 83599 - 66
**Function:** Advisory
**Area of Interest:**
**State:** NY
**City:** New York
**Description:**
We are The Lighthouse within KPMG's Consulting practice. We tap into the power of emerging technologies and scientific breakthroughs to create solutions and products that address the largest and most complex issues faced by global companies. By blending technology with our industry expertise, we're able to harness the potential of Cloud, AI, ML, IoT, 5G, and quantum computing to design and implement real-world solutions for a variety of business problems. Work with confidence knowing your ideas are heard and backed by one of the world's top professional services firms. Spark your curiosity and ignite your career at The Lighthouse.
KPMG is currently seeking an experienced Lead Product Manager, specializing in digital and AI capabilities, who is passionate about solving B2B problems, and creating technology-based solutions that drive unique and distinct client impact.
This individual will lead product development activities for the Lighthouse AI platform (https://advisory.kpmg.us/services/ignite.html) (Ignite) and the associated solutions built on the platform. Along with the solutions and GTM teams, as well as sector and functional leaders, this role will help shape the vision for and development of AI-enabled solutions for Ignite. You will continuously demonstrate and apply your strategic and analytical abilities, being laser-focused on delivering products in quick iterations. Your vision and ability to develop and deliver will work closely with every function in chosen industry sectors to drive our most critical solution initiatives in AI/ML. You will also guide ongoing solution management activities led by dedicated teams for those solutions that mature and scale.
Responsibilities:
+ Co-define solution management vision, strategies, and roadmaps based on a shared view of priorities with the Ignite solutions team (who work with cross-industry, cross-functional, and early adopter client teams). The vision and direction for Ignite solutions must be informed by deep engagement team and client insights (through market research, competitive analysis, and evaluation of business metrics)
+ Define detailed solution requirements, scope, release, and measure features to ensure the customer and business goals are met, from concept to prototype to minimum viable product. Ensure that features and functionality leverage the team's understanding of complex business workflows of internal and external clients. Drive development and execution with a team of world-class engineers and designers
+ Build trust and effective relationships with peers/cross-functional teams in the Lighthouse Ignite team (by mapping challenges and opportunities), and influence senior leaders' ability to communicate AI/ML vision, strategy, goals, status, and client impact. Influence cross-functional decisions among stakeholders within the Lighthouse Ignite team without direct authority
+ Work closely with GTM development and solution owners to prioritize technical feature requests and build a unified roadmap for how the Ignite platform can be best positioned and structured for maximum leverage across multiple solutions
+ Work closely with UI/UX designers, data scientists, data engineers, full stack engineers, infrastructure engineers and strategists in creating backlogs and assisting in story creation
+ Assist in managing the Ignite platform and its associated solutions throughout their lifecycle, ensuring business relevance, adoption, and continuous improvement
Qualifications:
+ BS degree in a technical field such as Computer Science; advanced degrees including MA/MS, PhD or MBA a plus; 10+ years relevant experience in product management, product development or architecture design with a focus on technology platform, data and machine learning services and APIs
+ Experience must include large-scale application platform and infrastructure management; experience with public cloud providers such as Google, AWS, and/or Azure is preferred; proven ability to make smart features (customer experience) versus time-to-market trade-offs; experience using data and metrics to back up assumptions and assertions of business value
+ Entrepreneurial drive and demonstrated ability to achieve stretch goals in an innovative and fast-paced environment, with experience working with solutions rooted in machine learning; working knowledge of deep learning, machine learning, and statistics, and/or working knowledge of SaaS AI platforms and prior experience in migrating on-prem AI/ML platform to public cloud will be a plus
+ Experience with qualitative and quantitative methodologies to understand customers; ability to explore and structure customers' insights to inform prioritization; experience working with customers, technical teams, and management to collect requirements and describe software product features and technical designs
+ Strong ability to translate business needs to technology and understand technology; detail-oriented, unfazed by technical detail, committed to flawless execution; mastery of technical concepts and system-design; ability to participate in technical discussions and help make technical trade-offs; excellent customer experience intuition; demonstrated success in creating innovative and user-friendly software applications and customer-facing features
+ Strong product management and technical leadership, project management skills, and analytical problem-solving capabilities; excellent verbal and written communication skills; team player, with the ability to effectively interact with and build relations at all levels; strong communication and collaboration skills, to build consensus, drive technical decisions with customer stakeholder groups of all sizes, and work across functions and influence senior leaders
+ Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship now or in the future
KPMG LLP (the U.S. member firm of KPMG International) offers a comprehensive compensation and benefits package. KPMG is an affirmative action-equal opportunity employer. KPMG complies with all applicable federal, state and local laws regarding recruitment and hiring. All qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other category protected by applicable federal, state or local laws. The attached link ( https://assets.kpmg.com/content/dam/kpmg/us/pdf/2018/09/eeo.pdf) contains further information regarding the firm's compliance with federal, state and local recruitment and hiring laws. No phone calls or agencies please.
KPMG does not currently require partners or employees to be fully vaccinated or test negative for COVID-19 in order to go to KPMG offices, client sites or KPMG events, except when mandated by federal, state or local law. In some circumstances, clients also may require proof of vaccination or testing (e.g., to go to the client site).
**GL:** 4
**GF:** 15310
