Managing Director, Product and Experience Lab
Ready to thrive in the next step on your career journey?
West Monroe has an immediate opportunity for a senior digital leader to join our Product & Experience Lab (PXL) practice as a Managing Director/Partner. This role will be instrumental in helping build and scale PXL into a national leader in digital strategy, product and experience work – from invention to scale – helping lead our people and client work. This role will focus on continually defining the strategic direction for the practice, leading West Monroe’s digital POV (for the firm and our clients) and helping build a culture obsessed with inventing, designing, and bringing to life incredible digital strategies, products and experiences for our clients. As a newly formed practice of 60+ people across West Monroe offices, PXL has a lot of momentum. The impact of digital in our lives, on society, and in business has never been so clear. The need for businesses to create lovable products and experiences has never been so great. This role within PXL is part of defining moment in West Monroe’s legacy and will be instrumental in shaping the future of it.
What You Will Be Doing:
Client Delivery
•Working with brands to develop strategies, products and experiences that help them reinvent their future, deliver growth and long-term market relevance and leadership.
•Lead strategic engagements to renovate and reinvent business models to reflect the new digital economy.
•Drive end-to-end digital transformation across business, technology, process, and people, creating value by reinventing the core of the client’s business.
•Lead multi-disciplinary teams in the delivery of new digital services or the iteration of existing ones.
•Directing, encouraging and inspiring teams to push the edge of quality, creativity, and digital innovation.
•Providing strategic advisory capabilities with all levels of leadership and C-Suite clients.
Practice Development
•Lead and inspire internal teams.
•Expand the capabilities and skills of the team through coaching, development and hiring.
•Collaborate with other internal practices to provide consistency across multi-disciplinary teams/deliverables.
•Influence and actively participate in a culture that breeds creativity and innovation and increases employee fulfillment.
•Build/expand internal methodologies.
Business Development
•Help West Monroe win new business through credibility and award-winning work.
•Develop, lead and nurture client relationships.
•Actively speaking, writing and contributing to thought ware. Helping West Monroe get on the right stages.
What You are Great at:
•You have a vision or point-of-view about where the industry will be in the next 3-5 years.
•You have deep understanding of digital product organizations and how to make them work.
•You appreciate and can lead many different types of people – business leaders, creatives, and software engineers
•You are an inspiring and effective people leader. You know how to get great work out of teams, and they respect you for it. Talent follows you and loves working with you.
•You have empathy for your clients and intimately understand what they need. You have credibility with them.
•You have a passion for technology and identifying ways to leverage it to solve business problems.
•You are comfortable being on stage – presenting, educating, training, influencing
•You can get a team rallied around a vision, a plan, a point of view
•You are committed to inclusion and diversity, and open to new ideas and perspectives
•You are proud of your accomplishments – the teams you’ve led, the products you’ve built, and change you’ve made in the organizations you’ve worked with (you’ve even made some great decks along the way – but you’re more proud of the results)
What You have Done:
•You’ve led teams, people, clients, and really challenging work.
•You have case studies demonstrating your ability to affect large-scale change.
•You have credibility as a thought leader and publisher.
•You have a reputation of delivering lovable products (apps, web apps, platforms, etc.)
•You are respected by both c-suite leaders and senior practitioners
•You’ve built (or helped build) a practice or team
Ready to get started? Join our team and make an impact.
At West Monroe, our people are our business.
We pride ourselves on bringing a different mindset to consulting—and that takes a different approach: highly collaborative, flexible, and tenacious.
Our people-first culture is core to our identity. It’s something we care about, and something we strive to enrich and preserve. No hierarchies. No siloes. No egos. Just smart ideas, unique perspectives, and the drive to make an impact for our clients.
We also know that the best outcomes for both our people and our clients result from including diverse perspectives at the table. That’s why inclusion & diversity is one of our core values.
Every day our clients rely on us to help them tackle their greatest challenges, by strategically deploying technology through a business-focused and industry-specific lens. We bring together both the right knowledge and the right approach, so that they can capitalize on opportunities and deliver real results. That takes the right team. And that’s where you come in.
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