Product Strategist | Digital Products & AI

PA Consulting•Charlotte, NC

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

As a Product Strategist on PA’s Digital Products & AI team, you will help clients identify valuable problems to solve and shape digital products that deliver measurable business outcomes. Working with AI Engineers and Data Engineers, you will take opportunities from discovery through adoption, combining business understanding with a practical perspective on technology. You will remain accountable for whether products are used and deliver value after launch. The role sits at the intersection of business, technology, and delivery. You will work through ambiguity, challenge assumptions, and help clients turn broad ambitions into production-ready products, AI-enabled solutions, intelligent workflows, and modernized platforms. You will also help determine how AI capabilities should be applied, including where automation is appropriate and where human oversight is needed. The position is part of a team that builds and delivers solutions for clients across sectors including healthcare and life sciences, manufacturing, energy and utilities, transportation, and consumer industries. The role also contributes reusable approaches, assets, and industry insights that may become future capabilities and offerings.

Requirements

Experience in product management, product strategy, consulting, or a similar role focused on defining and delivering technology-enabled solutions.
Experience leading discovery, shaping product direction, and translating complex business challenges into actionable plans.
Experience building business cases, defining success measures, and demonstrating value realization.
Deep expertise in at least one industry sector and the ability to establish credibility with operational and executive stakeholders.
Working knowledge of AI-enabled products, including agents, retrieval approaches, automation, and the opportunities and limitations of modern AI systems.
Experience evaluating competing opportunities and deciding where technology can create the greatest impact.
Experience working with multidisciplinary teams to deliver technology solutions from concept through implementation and adoption.
Strong communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills, including the ability to navigate ambiguity and influence decisions across organizational levels.
Commercial judgment and the ability to balance business value, user needs, technical feasibility, and delivery constraints.

Nice To Haves

Experience delivering solutions in consulting, professional services, or an industry leadership role.
Experience in healthcare and life sciences, manufacturing, energy and utilities, transportation, or consumer industries.
Experience with change management, operating model design, process transformation, or driving adoption of new technologies.
Experience using data, analytics, AI tools, SQL, Python, or similar approaches to support decision-making and product strategy.

Responsibilities

Lead client discovery to understand how work is done, where value is lost, and which opportunities are worth pursuing.
Define product requirements, priorities, acceptance criteria, and success measures to guide delivery and enable measurable outcomes.
Translate business challenges into products, AI-enabled solutions, and intelligent workflows that users can trust and adopt.
Shape the application of AI capabilities, including decisions about automation, human oversight, and evaluation of success.
Drive adoption by aligning stakeholders, supporting change, and helping clients redesign processes to realize value.
Create reusable approaches, assets, and industry insights that strengthen future engagements and may become market offerings.