Product Engineering: Lead Product Leader - PxE Talent

Position Summary An Applied AI Lead Product Manager is an expert individual contributor responsible for ensuring a product’s value and viability within a product line. This role involves leading empowered, cross-functional product teams to solve complex customer problems that align with strategic business needs. The Applied AI Lead Product Manager is accountable for the product’s success, from vision to execution, and collaborates closely with various functions and stakeholders to deliver valuable, viable, usable, and feasible solutions. As an expert in the craft, this role sets the standard for harnessing AI and orchestrating agentic tools to compress the concept-to-cash learning loop—automating analysis, prototyping, and compliance detail-work so the team can focus on the human judgment AI cannot replace: product sense-making. The Applied AI Lead Product Manager plays a crucial role in ensuring the success of our most strategic, complex products by balancing customer needs with business objectives. This role requires a blend of strategic vision, analytical skills, and collaborative teamwork to deliver valuable, viable, usable, and feasible solutions. It demands a high degree of experience and expertise in the modern product management craft and a drive for continuous improvement—amplified by the fluent, responsible use of AI to learn faster and earn faster. Work you’ll do Product AccountabilityResponsible and accountable for the product's value and viability showcasing a measurable Return on Investments (ROI)Drive strategy-aligned solutions to achieve product value objectives.Formulate and achieve Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for identified problems to solve.Measure KPIs and analyze outcomes to inform future strategies.Leverage AI to harvest outcome evidence early and often, lowering total cost of ownership (TCO).Vision and StrategyCo-create, own, and evangelize the product vision, strategy, and roadmap, using AI to deepen domain knowledge and simulate future scenarios to chart pathways others have not yet seen.Align product objectives with the product line and business goals.Co-create in collaboration with business stakeholders, engineering, experience, and delivery.Market and User EngagementConduct user research and competitive analysis, using AI agents to synthesize research at speed—accelerating the data crunching, ensuring the human connection.Engage the team with users and stakeholders through continuous research and direct interactions.Collaborate and guide the team toward solutions that address priority user and business needs.Collaboration and TeamworkWork side-by-side with cross-functional (business, engineering, experience, and delivery) team members to achieve KPI outcomes.Promote a product operating model that emphasizes outcomes over output (minimize overproduction while maximizing value).Build empowered teams and product communities who exhibit collective product ownership.Continuous ImprovementRemove obstacles for the team and ensure smooth flow of continuous value achievement.Promote and drive rapid, emergent, and ongoing learning and adaptation to meet objectives.Drive innovation and improvement of the process to drive out waste and accelerate value achievement, using AI as a force-multiplier to offload the repetitive, speed up the sluggish, and automate the mundane.Spread knowledge and best practices within the product vertical community.Applied AI Ways of WorkingAmplify innovation: use AI to rapidly deepen domain knowledge, surface untapped market and user potential, and simulate future scenarios—charting new pathways for the business rather than only collecting requirements.Amplify learning: use AI agents to synthesize research and validate ideas before they enter the backlog—compressing lead time by accelerating the data crunching, ensuring the human connection.Amplify focus: act as Editor-in-Chief—using AI to rigorously test assumptions and retire ideas that do not genuinely serve the user’s workflow in a way that works for the business.Amplify experimentation: orchestrate AI agents to build early, functional, disposable prototypes that validate the architecture and the solution, playing a key role in the Agentic Secure Software Development Life Cycle that paves a clear path for engineering to productionize. The successful candidate will possess: Ability to work independently and collaborate as part of a teamEffective written and verbal communication skillsMeticulous attention to detail and quality of work productAbility to build and sustain professional relationships Ability to lead projects or workstreamsAbility to manage and prioritize multiple tasks in a fast-paced and dynamic environmentStrong interpersonal skills and professional demeanor Ability to meet deadlinesAbility to mentor and provide clear guidance to others The team Deloitte Product Engineering (PxE) is developing advanced, agentic AI-enabled solutions that are redefining the future of work across our organization and for global clients. We are committed to bringing together outstanding product, engineering, and design talent to lead this transformation. Qualifications Required: Bachelor’s degree in Business, Marketing, Engineering, or a related field.10+ years of proven experience in product management or related roles.1+ year of building AI based intelligent products1+ year experience in using GenAI tools to perform product management tasks like conduct idea research, shaping, synthesis, roadmaps, requirements, prototyping, testingQuick to reach expert-level knowledge within the product domain being served.Experience with lean solutions and rapid, inexpensive experimentation to emerge the right thing, in the right way, at the right time. Limited immigration sponsorship may be availableAbility to travel 0-10%, on average, based on the work you do and the clients and industries/sectors you serveAbility to work in your local office at a minimum of 3 days per weekCandidates must be located within a commutable distance to one of the select location available for this role Preferred: An MBA or related advanced degreeExperience being accountable for value and viability results for an empowered product team.Demonstrated experience in modern product craft of delivering the right thing, in the right way, at the right time.Proven accountability for value, viability and P&L objectives for a product.Expert analytical and problem-solving skills. Ability to influence at all organizational levels through inclusion and leadership.Expert in modern product management craft and domain (tools, methods, and practices).Ability to navigate complexity and uncertainty.Favors small step action and evidence over detailed upfront planning and precision aiming.High levels of continuous customer and user engagement.Treats taste and judgment as the un-automatable moat—using AI to amplify, never replace, product sense-making.Ability to analyze data and derive actionable insights.Innovative and experimental approach to solving complex problems.Customer-Centricity: Deep understanding of customer needs and engagement patterns, driving teams to deliver solutions that customers love and that work for the business.Strategic Thinking: Ability to develop and execute a strategic vision for the product, aligning it with broader business objectives.AI Agentic Fluency: Comfortable orchestrating multiple AI agents across the concept-to-cash flow (research, insight, prototyping, specification, coding, and compliance), with guardrails at each hand-off—assumptions, confidence levels, and links to sources of truth.AI Realism and Eval Fluency: Understands the difference between deterministic logic and probabilistic generation; designs guardrails for hallucination, bias, and drift; uses evaluation harnesses before launch and monitors drift after, with a kill-switch mentality—and knows when not to use AI. Wage disclosure The wage range for this role takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. The disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled. At Deloitte, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $130,900 to $268,700. You may also be eligible to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program, subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors, including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance. 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