You Are:You're the voice of the customer. You own the backlog with clear rationale, lead sprint planning with cross-functional teams, provide leadership on small pieces of work, and begin supporting business casing.
The Work:PRODUCT CRAFT
- Leads sprint backlog readiness and planning with cross-functional teams, gaining alignment
- Partners across business, design, and development, fostering collaboration and communication
- Manages the product backlog with clear prioritization rationale
- Establishes user-story definition and acceptance criteria for the product backlog
- Facilitates trade-off decisions by balancing business need, customer experience, and technical feasibility
- Plays an active role in agile ceremonies - discovery and framing, cross-platform coordination, stakeholder governance
- Works to remove obstacles and blockers for the team
- Supports and where applicable, drives value casing / business-case / KPI development
- Feature writing and refinement
- Applies AI to user-story drafting, backlog management, and prioritization; validates outputs
CLIENT AND CONSULTING
- Manages client interactions confidently and professionally
- Clearly articulates ideas, tradeoffs, and recommendations
- Builds trust through reliability and problem-solving
- Handles scope, feedback, and delivery with minimal oversight
- Begins to mentor others on consulting behaviours
- Uses evidence-based storytelling to align stakeholders and influence product decisions
- Provides leadership on small pieces of work or initiatives
- Drives clarity from ambiguous client asks; proposes ways to resolve bottlenecks and improve quality
BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
- Supports pitches or proposals when directed
- Contributes ideas, slides, or examples with guidance
- Beginning to understand how projects are sold and scoped
- Limited proactive involvement
TEAM AND TALENT
- Participates positively in team culture
- Open to feedback and collaboration
- Actively mentors junior teammates
- Contributes to a supportive, inclusive team environment
- Gives thoughtful feedback and supports team growth
Here's What You'll Need:- Minimum 2 years of experience with proven ability to drive and deliver a successful product roadmap in an Agile environment, including facilitating user-story mapping and product workshops
- Minimum 1 year of experience writing features, epics, user stories, and acceptance criteria in a product development environment
- Minimum 1 year of experience working with clients to capture experience or technology nuances and enablers and translate them into actionable next steps
- A minimum of a high school diploma or GED is required for this position
- Demonstrated use of AI tools in day-to-day product work - user-story drafting, backlog management, prioritization, research synthesis - including the judgment to evaluate and validate AI-generated output rather than accept it at face value
- English is required for this position as this role will regularly interact with English-speaking stakeholders across Canada. Due to the significant high volume of interactions with these English-speaking stakeholders, which is inherent to this position, it is not possible to reorganize the company's activities to avoid this requirement.
- Must be eligible for Reliability Security clearance
Bonus Points If:- Bachelor's degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years) work experience
- Solid understanding of product team roles and responsibilities within a full-scale product team
- Extensive knowledge of product delivery models from inception to execution
- Strong analytical, data-driven mindset that keeps the end user at the heart of product creation
- Conflict management skills within planning and prioritization processes
- Comfort in creating content from scratch to tell the product story
- Proficiency in tools like JIRA, Rally, and Version One for tracking project scope
- Exceptional verbal and written communication skills
- Experience in SAFe, Scrum, Lean, and Kanban methodologies
- Certification in Agile (POPM, APM, CSPO)
Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location,
role, skill set, and level of experience. As required by local law, Accenture provides a reasonable range of compensation, based on full-time
employment, for roles that may be hired as set forth below.
The recruiting efforts for this position are intended to fill a brand new position.
The base pay range shown below is intended as a guideline to reflect the majority of offers for this role.
It does not represent a maximum limit - in some cases, actual compensation may exceed the range where appropriate.
Information on benefits is here.
Role Location Annual Salary Range
British Columbia/Ontario/New Brunswick $69,450 to $119,450
