Principal Product Manager is responsible for strategizing, designing and orchestrating a holistic Customer Experience (CX) vision, a CX roadmap and action plan that weave together the top CX opportunities supported by business valuation as well as a technology strategy and roadmap. The Principal Product  Manager owns the CX engagement and shepherds all the work streams from a strategic and value-driven perspective, and toward a common vision and plan for delivery. A key area of focus of this role is also building and growing a trusted advisory relationship with key clients such that they understand the value proposition of Thoughtworks CX Service Line and desire to foster ongoing CX engagements. 

You’ll spend time on the following:

Shape CX Strategy: 

• Design and drive differentiated product strategies and service offerings that showcase Thoughtworks as a premium player in the CX marketplace
• Understand the market and trends that could impact current and future clients
• Support the introduction and adoption of the CX Service Line vision and strategy through compelling narrative and assets
• Ensure CX strategy adapts and responds to business priorities, market trends, and customer trends and insights

Drive CX Service Growth: 

• Contribute to the shaping and selling of the CX Services
• Partner with Client Leadership Team and advise on creating a pathway for a CX opportunities and shaping compelling and profitable proposals
• Partner with Product Managers to ensure effective understanding of CX Services
• Develop sales and marketing enablement content such as pitch decks, engagement models, premium pricing and thought leadership

Deliver Undeniable Value For Clients:

• Know the client's strategy, structure and business model in order to effectively navigate organizational politics. Also to  provide advice and support to the client to help move their agendas forward within the organization
• Define and run the executive communications, continuously aligning expectations and guiding them on the engagement journey to ensure common understanding and agreements at milestones and decision points
• Understand what success means to the client and ensure that the value being delivered is explicit, and well understood by the client and the Thoughtworks teams
• Orchestrate across a multi-disciplinary team to create a unified strategy that drives customer and business value across online and offline touchpoints
• Ensure alignment across the team around successful delivery of CX Service Line projects that deliver profitable work and deliver referenceable case studies
• Own the product backlog and constantly evolve it based on the latest changes in the business
• Accountable for value prioritization for your team
• Constantly measure the success of your project and the products you own to ensure the team is on the right track to deliver value to the customers and the business
• A visible and active leader within the client engagements that provides mentorship, feedback, coaching, and advice, also builds community around capability development initiatives

Cultivate Talent: 

• Take ownership for growing the CX Service Line through recruitment and internal opportunity activities; provide recruitment support to Markets as needed
• Partner with the People Team on Performance and Growth initiatives and activities, such writing job descriptions, building development plans, designing & facilitating L&D sessions
• Continuously looking for opportunities to drive our product and CX capabilities forward
• Foster a collaborative, adaptive, outcome-oriented team environment
• Provide performance management support as needed, this may involve direct support for 5-10 product leaders, within our outside of client engagements

Here’s what we’re looking for:

• Respected expert in the product management discipline
• Excellent ability to communicate effectively and tactfully across all levels of the business (written and verbal)
• Role model consultant and influencer
• Strategic outcome focused
• Deep curiosity and empathy for the challenges that our clients face with a passion for helping them succeed
• Known as someone who is flexible, thrives in ambiguous situations and creates order and a path forward for a wide array of stakeholders
• Adept at workshop facilitation (e.g., roadmapping, innovation and alignment workshops)
• Able to draw out the best ideas from teams and individuals
• Solves problems in unique ways by drawing from background and experience working in an array of contexts
• Highly collaborative and able to identify and able to cultivate healthy team dynamics, course correcting as necessary
• Capable of shifting easily and quickly between strategic and tactical work
• Strong coaching skills
• 7  to 15 years of experience in product management
• Adept at writing proposals, shaping engagement teams and SOWs
• Effective at selling CX value proposition to prospective clients

A few important things to know:

While we’ve traditionally been a traveling consultancy, travel is not required for this role at the moment. We anticipate the need for travel to a client site for a couple of days if support is needed, or to other offices during regular intervals, when it is safe to do so.

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