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 product leader, you will be responsible for shaping and driving product plans, ensuring alignment with business strategy, user needs, and market trends.You will define and execute comprehensive product strategies that align with client goals across brands, markets, and products, while continually improving existing offerings. Leveraging insights from customer and competitor research, you will prioritize and guide the development of innovative solutions, translating business needs into functional requirements. Your role will involve close collaboration with technology, support, and client service teams to manage product updates and deployments, as well as defining and tracking KPIs to identify opportunities for growth and improvement. Additionally, you will lead workshops and training sessions to showcase product features, ensuring both internal teams and customer users are equipped to maximize value.In this role, you will play a pivotal part in steering cross-functional teams, including product owners and engineering delivery teams, to design and deliver impactful solutions that address business challenges. You will build and maintain key relationships across the organization to deliver prioritized product roadmaps and partner with marketing, sales, and partner organizations to develop effective go-to-market strategies. Accountability for the growth and success of the products will be central to your responsibilities, as will fostering innovation and creativity.Based in McKinsey’s Periscope team in Gurgaon or Bangalore, India, you will contribute to the technology backbone of McKinsey’s Growth, Marketing & Sales Practice. Periscope combines world-class intellectual property, prescriptive analytics, and cloud-based tools to drive revenue growth and sustain commercial transformation for businesses globally.The Growth, Marketing & Sales Practice strives to help clients in both consumer and business-to-business environments on a wide variety of marketing and sales topics. Our clients benefit from our experience in core areas of sales and marketing topics such as sales and channel management, branding, customer insights, marketing ROI, digital marketing, CLM, and pricing. Our Practice offers an exceptional opportunity to work at the intersection of sales, marketing, and consulting. Focusing on issues like redefining sales and marketing operations and commercial transformation, our people help clients build capabilities and transform how companies go to market-moving them to customer-centric organizations.Periscope leverages its world-leading IP (largely from McKinsey but also other partners) and best-in-class technology to enable transparency into Big Data, create actionable insights, and new ways of working that drive lasting performance improvement, and typically sustain a 2-7% increase in return on sales (ROS). With a truly global reach, the portfolio of solutions is comprised of: Marketing Solutions, Customer Experience Solutions, Category Solutions, B2C Pricing Solutions, B2B Pricing Solutions, and Sales Solutions. These are complemented by ongoing client service and custom capability building programs.Periscope has a presence in 27 locations across 16 countries with a team of 800+ IT and business 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 www.mckinsey.com/periscope
Your Qualifications and Skills
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field
- 7+ years of total experience in technical product or project management within a data platform or enterprise technology environment
- Hands-on experience managing data platform initiatives and leading agile delivery teams
- Proficiency in tools like Jira and Confluence for project planning and execution
- Strong understanding of cloud-native data technologies (Azure, AWS, or GCP; Spark; Delta Lake; Databricks preferred)
- Proven ability to manage cross-team collaboration and deliver operational efficiency
- Good understanding of user/business needs, structuring backlogs, prioritization, measuring success, communicating the value of a product
- Software engineering knowledge
- Understanding of factors influencing price, basic margin/cost calculations
