Senior Product Owner

You Are

As a Senior Product Owner, you will take full ownership of a product area, guiding it from concept through delivery with minimal oversight. You will be responsible for defining clear product requirements, maintaining detailed documentation, and ensuring traceability throughout the development lifecycle.

Your day-to-day will involve managing and prioritizing the product backlog, establishing acceptance criteria, and collaborating closely with engineering, design, and compliance teams to deliver features that enhance user experience or operational efficiency. You will be expected to resolve issues proactively and drive execution, ensuring that releases are both incremental and safe.

The Work

• Lead and manage a cross-functional team to deliver high-quality software products using agile methodologies. This will include training and guiding new team members.
• Define and own product requirements, ensuring features measurably improve user experience or operational performance.
• Create, maintain, and manage comprehensive documentation and clear product backlogs.
• Establish and maintain acceptance criteria and traceability across requirements and delivery.
• Use data and user research to inform roadmap decisions and evaluate post-release results.
• Collaborate closely with engineering, design, and compliance stakeholders to ensure safe, incremental product releases.
• Build and nurture strong client relationships, acting as a key point of contact for product-related matters.
• Drive creative problem solving and issue resolution within the product area with minimal oversight.
• Provide people leadership, fostering a culture of accountability, growth, and high performance within the team.

Here's What You Need

• Strong background in agile software delivery, with hands-on experience in backlog management and documentation ownership
• Familiarity with tools such as Jira, Confluence, or similar platforms will help you manage requirements and track progress effectively.
• Ability to leverage data and user research to inform roadmap decisions and evaluate post-release outcomes will be crucial
• Experience in client relationship management, people leadership, and creative problem solving will enable you to foster collaboration across stakeholders and deliver measurable results.

Bonus Points If

• Advanced Degree
• 15+ years of industry experience
• Motivated and proactive, with a desire to understand and address complex areas
• Curiosity for learning about new technology, industry best practices, and areas of risk, analyzing and turning new insights into concrete action
• Commitment to delivering tangible outcomes for customers and stakeholders
• Strong written and verbal communication/interpersonal skills to effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams and stakeholders.
• Excellent people management and relationship development skills
• In-depth knowledge of Accenture delivery methodologies and practices

The Extras

• US Citizenship Required
• The ability to obtain and maintain a government security clearance

Pay and benefits

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:

$139,300—$269,000 USD

What We Believe

As a company wholly dedicated to serving the US federal government, we bring together the best talent to help reinvent how federal agencies operate and deliver greater value for their mission and the American people. As a business imperative, every person at Accenture Federal Services has the responsibility to create and sustain a culture where everyone feels welcomed and included.

This is grounded in our core values and our experience that hiring and developing great people who reflect different perspectives, experiences, and backgrounds is key to driving innovation and delivering the results that our clients and the country count on.