Senior Product Manager

Company description

We believe in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future.  

As strategies, technologies, and innovation collide, we create opportunity from complexity. 

Our teams of interdisciplinary experts combine innovative thinking and breakthrough technologies to progress further, faster. Our clients adapt and transform, and together we achieve enduring results. 

We are over 4,000 strategists, innovators, designers, consultants, digital experts, scientists, engineers, and technologists. And we have deep expertise in consumer and manufacturing, defence and security, energy and utilities, financial services, government and public services, health and life sciences, and transport.  

Our teams operate globally from offices across the UK, Ireland, US, Nordics, and Netherlands. 

PA. Bringing Ingenuity to Life. 

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. No need to go onto the Partner career track if this doesn’t align with what you want to do.
• 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 a culture of learning and growth – you’ll have budget to take courses (technical and non-technical training), plus 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  

Additional information

Assessment process ⚖️

Please note that the interview stages may be subject to change based on the specific requirements of the role.

• Quick call with one of our Tech Recruiters – to discuss your application, the role and PA
• Round 1: Either a competency or technical interview (60 mins)
• Round 2: A mini case study and discussion around your client-centricity (60 mins)
• Final round 🎉: Meeting with a PA leader (60 mins)

Life At PA encompasses our peoples' experience at PA. It's about how we enrich peoples’ working lives by giving them access to unique people and growth opportunities and purpose led meaningful work.

Our purpose guides how we work with our clients and our teams, and support our communities, to deliver insight and impact, solving the world’s most complex challenges. We're focused on building a workplace that values human difference and diverse mindsets, and a culture of inclusion and equality that unlocks the potential in our people so everyone can be their best self.

Find out more about Life at PA here .

We are dedicated to supporting the physical, emotional, social and financial well-being of our people. Check out some of our extensive benefits:

• Health and lifestyle perks accompanying private healthcare for you and your family
• 25 days annual leave (plus a bonus half day on Christmas Eve) with the opportunity to buy 5 additional days
• Generous company pension scheme
• Opportunity to get involved with community and charity-based initiatives
• Annual performance-based bonus
• PA share ownership
• Tax efficient benefits (cycle to work, give as you earn)

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.

Adjustments or accommodations - Should you need any adjustments or accommodations to the recruitment process, at either application or interview, please contact us on [email protected]

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