Who You'll Work With
Driving lasting impact and building long-term capabilities with our clients is not easy work. You are the kind of person who thrives in a high performance/high reward culture - doing hard things, picking yourself up when you stumble, and having the resilience to try another way forward.In return for your drive, determination, and curiosity, we'll provide the resources, mentorship, and opportunities you need to become a stronger leader faster than you ever thought possible. Your colleagues—at all levels—will invest deeply in your development, just as much as they invest in delivering exceptional results for clients. Every day, you'll receive apprenticeship, coaching, and exposure that will accelerate your growth in ways you won’t find anywhere else.When you join us, you will have:
- Continuous learning: Our learning and apprenticeship culture, backed by structured programs, is all about helping you grow while creating an environment where feedback is clear, actionable, and focused on your development. The real magic happens when you take the input from others to heart and embrace the fast-paced learning experience, owning your journey.
- A voice that matters: From day one, we value your ideas and contributions. You’ll make a tangible impact by offering innovative ideas and practical solutions. We not only encourage diverse perspectives, but they are critical in driving us toward the best possible outcomes.
- Global community: With colleagues across 65+ countries and over 100 different nationalities, our firm’s diversity fuels creativity and helps us come up with the best solutions for our clients. Plus, you’ll have the opportunity to learn from exceptional colleagues with diverse backgrounds and experiences.
- World-class benefits: On top of a competitive salary (based on your location, experience, and skills), we provide a comprehensive benefits package to enable holistic well-being for you and your family.
Your Impact
As a Director of Product, you will lead the product strategy, drive innovation, and deliver exceptional client and user experiences for our product suite.This is part of an exciting, highly visible, fast-growing team within the Growth, Marketing & Sales practice and the broader firm. The Periscope B2C Retail team builds enterprise software as service (SaaS) pricing capabilities for our clients. Periscope products are leading solutions in the industry innovating on AI/ML and GenAI capabilities applied to Pricing domain. You’ll oversee a team of product managers, collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders, and shape the roadmap that defines our future.You will: define and communicate a compelling product vision aligned with organization goals and client feedback; develop and execute long-term product strategies and roadmaps; translate business goals into product roadmaps with measurable outcomes; inspire a team of product managers, designers, architects and engineers to think out of the box; experiment and build new capabilities; build subject matter expertise in the retail pricing and promotion management domain; understand deeply the user behaviors and client feedback to build insights and apply the insights to drive differentiated product capabilities and outcomes to build, lead, and mentor a high-performing product management team in India.You will also: work closely with teams to build a culture of innovation, ownership and data-driven decision-making; guide the product roadmaps to balance strategic vision for client, market and technology upgrade needs; prioritize initiatives based on client business impact, user delight, and technical efficiency; act as a key liaison between executive leadership and product teams; and communicate product plans, progress, risk mitigation plans and outcomes to stakeholders and clients.You’ll be aligned primarily with Periscope’s technology team. Periscope® By McKinsey enables better commercial decisions by uncovering actionable insights. The Periscope platform combines world leading intellectual property, prescriptive analytics, and cloud-based tools to provide more than 25 solutions focused on insights and marketing, with expert support and training. It is a unique combination that drives revenue growth both now and in the future. Customer experience, performance, pricing, category, and sales optimization are powered by the Periscope platform. Periscope has a presence in 26 locations across 16 countries with a team of 1000+ business and IT professionals and a network of 300+ experts. To learn more about how Periscope’s solutions and experts are helping businesses continually drive better performance, visit http://www.periscope-solutions.com.
Your Qualifications and Skills
- 16+ years’ experience in Product Management roles with at least 5 years in a similar leadership role in an enterprise software product organization
- Prior experience building software products in Retail, Consumer Analytics domain with Big data, AI/ML, financial forecasts is highly desired
- Proven ability to build and lead distributed product teams, ideally within a matrixed global environment.
- Track record of delivering complex products to large number of clients
- Exceptional problem-solving abilities - building a strong understanding of client and user problems and building capabilities that help resolve their pain points
- Data-driven mindset, with proficiency in leveraging analytics and market insights to inform product decisions
- Strong communicator with experience aligning and influencing stakeholders across regions.
- Demonstrated experience presenting product vision and roadmaps in large forums to clients, industry analysts and experts.
- Demonstrated experience in building strong connections and relationships with clients, stakeholders, internal partner teams and external partners.
- Ownership mentality – demonstrated end to end ownership, accountability, and a desire to lead from the front when required to achieve the desired outcome.
- Ability to manage multiple projects, competing priorities in an fluid and changing environment
- Technical fluency; comfort understanding and discussing new technology concepts, schedule tradeoffs and new opportunities with technical team members
