Product Realization

Description

Product Realization Manager

Who we are:

Idea Couture is a carefully assembled studio of human-centered design practitioners from a wide range of educational backgrounds, international settings, and professional experiences within Cognizant Digital Experience. We help organizations navigate and innovate in complex and uncertain environments. Using design thinking methodologies, we solve problems and identify business opportunities-generating new growth, meaningful differentiation, and economic value, while improving everyday lives. The transformative solutions we provide our clients are born of transdisciplinary thinking, balanced research, and inventive methods, based in business rationale and good design.

Who you are:

You are a seasoned professional who thinks strategically, collaborates cross-functionally, produces high quality deliverables, grows client relationships, and continuously builds and elevates your practice. As a colleague and key influencer within the team, you have the entrepreneurial spirit to drive forward through moments of ambiguity and change with a problem-solver's attitude. As a practitioner, you are able to define innovative and successful products, business, and marketing strategies to drive forward a human-centered design. You are able to do this with a track record in bringing products from idea-to-market, creating and validating innovative product concepts, and understanding how to develop successful new market entry strategies and rationalizing product portfolios.

What we share:

• A knack for looking at familiar problems through a unique lens
• Desire to change minds, hearts, and behaviours with new experiences

• Passion for driving market growth through innovation, technology, and design,
• A belief that understanding people can better guide business priorities and strategies

What your day-to-day will look like:

• Lead project engagements with a focus on delivering new products throughout the product life cycle for Fortune 500 clients across a range of industries and project types independently or as part of a team
• Contribute to and lead cross-functional teams (strategy, insights, design, technology), providing product realization expertise and guidance
• Act as a trusted client partner and product realization expert, relied on for strategic POVs
• Understand and incorporate complex business, strategic, and technical requirements into engagement outcomes
• Contribute to work across all product realization capabilities including opportunity identification and analysis, market sizing and segmentation, product and business model definition, requirements definition and development management

• Collaborate with interdisciplinary teams in identifying innovative product and service opportunities from concept definition and validation through to formal requirements documentation, commercialization, launch and ongoing support
• Work with teams to design and facilitate successful presentations and workshops for senior executive level clients
• Support project design across a range of project types and contribute to the end-to-end creation of winning proposals
• Contribute to organizational business development activities from opportunity identification to sold work
• Inspire and develop the skills of supporting team members

• Support development of new product realization practice tools and processes
• Actively manage a broad network of stakeholders across the client organization, and within Idea Couture and Cognizant

What you'll need:

• Undergraduate or graduate degree in business administration, or a related field
• 7-10 years experience in agency/consulting or client side, with strategy consulting, product planning, product marketing, or product management experience
• Digital agency experience or MBA is considered a strong asset
• Proven ability to critique, analyze, and elevate strategies and ideas
• Expert understanding of cross-functional resources and building effective teams

• Strong client leadership and facilitation skills with the ability to command and guide a room
• Proven track record in managing digital transformations from product and business modelling, casing, and definitionthrough to market launch
• Extensive experience in front-end ideation activities including opportunity identification and analysis, market sizing and segmentation, and product and business model definition
• Demonstrated experience in defining product requirements, managing development efforts across integrated teams of designers, strategists, and engineers, and delivering products to market
• Conversant in the principles and practices of human-centered design, design thinking, and agile development methodology (including user story development)

• Note: Currently travel is not a requirement; would expect up to 25% as business requirements change

What's in it for you?

• Multidisciplinary learning across backgrounds, approaches, methods, and industry expertise

• Be a part of and play a critical role in shaping a niche and nimble culture within a global firm
• Access to global scale, from the types of projects you work on to resources you collaborate with and lean on
• Experience with a broad range of challenges in experience design, from whitespace opportunity definition to downstream realization
• A competitive salary and benefits package
• A workplace that prioritizes wellness and working flexibly to ensure you get the balance you need to meet the demands of your personal and professional life

Qualifications

Technical Skills

SNo Primary Skill Proficiency Level * Rqrd./Dsrd. 1 Design Thinking PL4 Required 2 Visual Design Elements & Funda PL4 Required

* Proficiency Legends

Proficiency Level Generic Reference PL1 The associate has basic awareness and comprehension of the skill and is in the process of acquiring this skill through various channels. PL2 The associate possesses working knowledge of the skill, and can actively and independently apply this skill in engagements and projects. PL3 The associate has comprehensive, in-depth and specialized knowledge of the skill. She / he has extensively demonstrated successful application of the skill in engagements or projects. PL4 The associate can function as a subject matter expert for this skill. The associate is capable of analyzing, evaluating and synthesizing solutions using the skill.