Principal Product Manager - McKinsey Transformation

Do you want to work on complex and pressing challenges—the kind that bring together curious, ambitious, and determined leaders who strive to become better every day? If this sounds like you, you’ve come to the right place.

Your Impact

You will collaborate with colleagues in the McKinsey Transformation (MT) team, which spans across functions (design, development, delivery, management, and client development).

You will have a specific focus on McKinsey’s Wave Solution, a digital product that enables clients to successfully manage improvement programs and transformations. You will be an active member of the product and technology team, working together with other Product Owners to evolve the platform and ensure it continues to exceed client expectations.

Applying user-focused principles, you will engage with users and internal stakeholders to conduct user research and draw insights required to inform perspectives on product value, usability, or feasibility. You will identify pain points in product usage, write user stories, create wireframes, groom stories with developers, test improvement ideas, and document results.

You will use this to help define, build, and prioritize the product backlog. You will also support product documentation by translating complex technical information into end user-friendly help content, including text and supporting graphics. This is a key enabler in adoption and user experience.

You will collaborate with a team of 3 to 4 Engineers to implement your product backlog, under the guidance of MT Assets Product Leaders. You will validate functional implementation and integrate/provide feedback for the development team. You will communicate ‘the story’ effectively to train client-facing Service Teams on the newly developed functionality.

As part of these efforts, you will prepare meetings or other activities, alongside product communications to a broad range of stakeholders. You’ll have the opportunity to gain new skills and build on the strengths you bring to the team.

Our Product & Engineering team, consisting of 65 colleagues and external workers, is responsible for developing and managing the firm’s digital solution for steering transformation programs at scale. This team is responsible for building Wave, a cutting-edge software-as-a-service (SaaS) product used by 100,000+ client users every month across hundreds of clients globally. We are constantly innovating as demonstrated by recent launch of our Wave’s GenAI-powered Virtual Coach.

Your Growth

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, all while upholding our unwavering commitment to ethics and integrity. 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 qualifications and skills

• Bachelor’s degree required, master's preferred in computer science, business or equivalent degree
• 6+ years of experience as a product owner, product manager, or another related role
• Experience with building adopted enterprise quality products, enabling business capability and objectives through technology
• Proficient with roadmaps, drawing storyboards, creating wireframes, creating/grooming product backlogs, writing user stories and developing acceptance criteria
• Understanding product lifecycle and product management best practices
• Identify and escalate product development barriers, dependencies or risks, ensuring the value of the user stories and negotiating with stakeholders and engineers to deliver the value within tight timelines
• Ability to analyze structured and unstructured data using Excel (or other analytics tools)
• Strong interpersonal skills; comfortable working with technical & business teams
• Demonstrated ability and desire to navigate complex situations with various levels of uncertainty
• As a part of our commitment to apprenticeship and community, consistent and predictable in-person/in-office working time is essential to this role
• Willingness for occasional travel as needed