Digital Product Design Manager

Accenture•St. Louis, MO

10d•$80,400 - $293,800

About The Position

Accenture Song’s Design & Digital Products practice works with brands to reinvent products, services, and spaces using emerging technology. This role leads product design engagements from scoping and planning through delivery, connecting user needs and business strategy to high-quality, scalable product experiences. The manager sets design direction while remaining hands-on, establishes craft standards, guides product decisions, and connects experience choices to measurable business outcomes. The position spans client delivery, business development, and people and practice development. It leads client programs and multidisciplinary teams, turns strategic recommendations into prototypes and narratives, contributes to proposals and thought leadership, identifies opportunities to support client growth, and mentors designers. The role also advances AI-enabled design practices by shaping AI experiences and workflows and documenting their impact. This is a hands-on design leadership position; recent experience with tools such as Figma is a bonus.

Requirements

7+ years of Product Design experience addressing a range of business problems, industries, user types, and platforms.
4+ years leading end-to-end product design engagements, from discovery and synthesis through concepting and build, including designing within and contributing to design systems.
4+ years leading the creation of product visions, user journeys, interaction models, flows, wireframes, and rapid prototypes for end-to-end product experiences.
Strong facilitation skills and executive presence; ability to present product strategy and design rationale to senior client stakeholders and manage competing priorities under pressure.
4+ years bringing designs to life through high-fidelity UI, accessible design practices, and clear, developer-ready specifications.
3+ years directly managing or coaching designers, with demonstrated ability to help contributors become stronger independent practitioners.
3+ years working in agile delivery environments and cross-functional teams with product managers, architects, engineers, and data or analytics teams.
3+ years shaping the design of AI-powered experiences, including trust states, fallback and error handling, human-in-the-loop interactions, and agentic workflows.
Experience embedding AI tools and workflows into product design practices and modeling AI-enabled ways of working for a team.
Applicants for U.S. employment must have work authorization that does not now or in the future require visa sponsorship.

Nice To Haves

Recent hands-on experience with product design tools such as Figma.
Fluency in adjacent areas such as product strategy, engineering, or data and AI, or self-directed expansion of skills.
Experience contributing to practice-level initiatives such as ways of working, craft assets, onboarding, or community forums.
A bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in design, strategy, business, or a related field.
Experience in management consulting or professional services.
External thought leadership, such as publishing points of view, speaking at events, or representing the practice in the broader design community.

Responsibilities

Lead client programs from approach through delivery, with accountability for work quality, timelines, and cross-disciplinary collaboration.
Solve ambiguous and abstract problems and imagine first-of-their-kind experiences.
Turn strategic recommendations into proofs of concept, prototypes, and visual narratives, using AI tools to accelerate and enhance output.
Set direction while staying close to the work, shaping product decisions and ensuring high-quality design delivery.
Lead client discussions, communicate research and design insights through strategic narratives, and guide clients through complex decisions.
Document how AI changes project workflows and quantify its impact on delivery, quality, and team performance.
Contribute to proposals, create case studies, and turn project learnings into thought leadership.
Identify unmet client needs and evolving business priorities, and share growth opportunities with account leaders.
Mentor and support team members, helping them develop skills, methods, tool use, and their product design practice.
Contribute to the Product Design craft by sharing project methods and outcomes and supporting the evolution of the discipline.