Job Description
We believe in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future. We challenge where it matters and own the outcome. We combine strategic thinking, customer‑centric service design, and agile engineering practices to accelerate innovation in a tech‑driven world.
Why consider joining our Digital & Data community
- Join our Digital & Data team working alongside product, design and a wide range of other experts and cross-disciplinary teams to bring ideas to life through innovative software solutions.
- Grow a flexible and unique career within a trust‑based, inclusive environment that values excellence, innovation, and curiosity. You have the option to progress with us on a technical career track.
- Hybrid working – our approach is to be in the office or on client site a minimum of 2 days per week.
- Work on a broad variety of projects and tech stacks for clients across seven sectors – no project is ever the same.
- Join other experts within our supportive and collaborative tech community through knowledge‑sharing and peer‑level support, coaching and mentoring.
- Deepen your expertise through our culture of learning and growth – you’ll have budget to take courses (technical and non‑technical training) and gain certifications.
About The Role
As a Product Manager at PA Consulting, you’ll sit at the intersection of strategy, delivery and user value. Sometimes your work will be hands‑on product delivery – shaping backlogs, prioritising features, defining epics and stories, analysing data and partnering closely with engineering and design. Other times, you’ll apply product thinking as a mindset – clarifying problems, framing opportunities, shaping hypotheses, or guiding clients through what good product practice looks like.
You’ll be part of multidisciplinary teams and sometimes work as an individual contributor embedded with a client, but you will always remain a key member of our design, product and wider Digital & Data community. The work varies: one project might involve defining a north‑star product vision; the next may require diagnosing value gaps, modelling opportunities or improving ways of working.
What You’ll Do
- Develop product visions, strategies and roadmaps grounded in user needs, commercial value and technical feasibility.
- Lead or support backlog creation, refinement, prioritisation and feature definition.
- Use product thinking to shape direction even when not managing a backlog directly.
- Conduct or interpret research to validate assumptions and inform direction.
- Collaborate closely with engineering, design and delivery teams to make decisions and move work forward.
- Define, track and communicate product KPIs and success measures.
- Use AI tooling (e.g., Copilot, Miro, ChatGPT, Claude, agentic workflows and other generative tooling) to accelerate ideation, synthesis, prioritisation and reporting.
- Facilitate workshops and alignment sessions that help clients understand trade‑offs and make confident decisions.
- Produce clear, compelling communication material – from executive reports to delivery updates.
Qualifications
Who you are
- Someone who can switch fluidly between high‑level product strategy and hands‑on delivery.
- Pragmatic and comfortable making trade‑offs in imperfect conditions.
- A clear communicator who knows how to simplify complexity for any audience.
- Curious, hypothesis‑driven and comfortable forming and testing assumptions.
- A natural collaborator who works well with design, engineering and business stakeholders.
- Already integrating AI into your workflow or keen to build that capability.
- Comfortable flexing across different industries and problem spaces.
How You Operate
- You blend product craft with consulting judgement – influencing, shaping and guiding.
- You adapt methods to suit the context rather than enforcing a fixed process.
- You make decisions using data, evidence and structured thinking.
- You’re calm in ambiguity and help others build clarity and alignment.
- You use AI thoughtfully to accelerate insight, not to replace your own analysis.
- You work effectively as part of a team or independently with senior stakeholders.
- You stay focused on outcomes, not just delivery outputs.
Why this role may not be the right fit
- If you want long‑term ownership of a single product rather than varied consulting projects.
- If you rely on a fixed product process instead of adapting your approach to context.
- If you’re uncomfortable with client‑facing work or influencing stakeholders.
- If you expect all product roles to be delivery‑heavy – some will be strategic or exploratory.
- If you avoid ambiguity or always prefer clearly defined scopes.
- If you’re not open to experimenting with AI tools and new ways of working.
- If you prefer strict role boundaries instead of flexing between strategy, delivery and analysis.
- If you’re not interested in stretching yourself, taking initiative, or shaping your own growth at PA, this won’t be the right environment.
Equal Opportunity Statement
We’re committed to advancing equality. We recruit, retain, reward and develop our people based solely on their abilities and contributions and without reference to their age, background, disability, genetic information, parental or family status, religion or belief, race, ethnicity, nationality, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity (or expression), political belief veteran status, or other by any other range of human difference brought about by identity and experience. We welcome applications from underrepresented groups.
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