Lead Product Owner
Overview
A Lead Product Owner is a senior individual contributor responsible for ensuring a product’s value and viability within a product line. This role involves leading empowered, cross-functional product teams to solve moderate complexity customer problems that align with high value business needs. The Lead Product Manager is accountable for the product’s success from vision to execution and will collaborate closely with various functions and stakeholders to deliver valuable, viable, usable, and feasible solutions.
Recruiting for this role ends on July 9, 2025
The Team
At Deloitte Technology - US (DT-US), we are at the forefront of innovation, driving transformative solutions that shape the future. The assets and accelerators we build power our marketplace-leading solutions. Our team is passionate, dynamic, and dedicated to pushing boundaries. We are looking for a Lead Product Owner who embodies this spirit and is ready to lead with creativity, ownership, strategy, and a mindset that challenges and often shatters the status-quo.
* Innovation-First Environment: Be part of a team that thrives on creativity and innovation.
* Impactful Work: Contribute to products that make a real difference.
Work you’ll do/ key responsibilities:
As a Lead Product Owner, you will be the visionary behind our products, driving them from concept to user success. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, including engineering, design, user research, marketing, to deliver products that not only meet but exceed customer expectations. Your role is pivotal in ensuring that our products are innovative, user-centric, and aligned with our business goals.
The Lead Product Owner plays a crucial role in ensuring the success of our high value, moderately complex products by balancing customer needs with business objectives. This role requires a blend of strategic vision, analytical skills, and collaborative teamwork to deliver valuable, viable, usable, and feasible solutions. It demands significant experience in the modern product management craft and a drive for continuous improvement.
Product Accountability
- Responsible and accountable for the product's value and viability, including profit and loss.
- Formulate and achieve Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).
- Analyze outcomes to develop future strategies.
Vision and Strategy
- Co-create, own, and evangelize the product vision, strategy, and roadmap.
- Align product objectives with the product line and business goals.
- Co-create in collaboration with business stakeholders, engineering, experience, and delivery.
Market and User Engagement
- Conduct market research and competitive analysis.
- Engage the team with users and stakeholders through continuous research and direct interactions.
- Collaborate and guide the team toward solutions that address priority user and business needs.
Collaboration and Teamwork
- Work with cross-functional (business, engineering, experience, and delivery) teams to achieve KPI outcomes.
- Promote a product operating model that emphasizes outcomes over output.
- Build empowered teams and product communities who exhibit collective product ownership.
Continuous Improvement
- Remove obstacles for the team and ensure smooth flow of continuous value achievement.
- Measure KPIs and analyze outcomes to inform future strategies.
- Drive innovation and improvement of the process to drive out waste and accelerate value achievement.
- Spread knowledge and best practices within the product vertical community.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in business, marketing, engineering, or a related field.
- 6+ years of experience in a product management, product ownership, and/or project management role in an enterprise environment.
- 6+ years of experience delivering modern tech stack using lean product management methodologies including but not limited to:
- Experience with the following principles and practices: design thinking, customer-centric product management, human-centered design, outcome-driven innovation, and service design.
- Accountability for value, visibility, and P&L objectives for a product.
- 1+ year of experience managing people/ processes.
- Experience in a Product Manager/Owner capacity supporting full lifecycle enterprise implementations from ideation through development and maintenance of a software product/application; recent experience in application security, user/policy management
- Experience using Mural, Miro, or similar for collaboration.
- Must be able to travel 0-10%, on average, based on the work you do and the clients and industries/sectors you serve.
- Limited immigration sponsorship may be available
Preferred
- An MBA or related advanced degree
- Experience solving problems through analytics, innovation, strategy, cross-collaboration, and effective communication
The wage range for this role takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. The disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled. At Deloitte, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $97,600 to $179,000.
You may also be eligible to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program, subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors, including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance.
Information for applicants with a need for accommodation: https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/pages/careers/articles/join-deloitte-assistance-for-disabled-applicants.html
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