Associate Director, Strategy & Consulting - R01570312

About the role

The Associate Director, Strategy & Consulting will lead the strategic direction of product management at Brillio, a leading digital technology service provider. This role involves defining the future-state product management role, developing and implementing role architecture and competency models, and designing and documenting the interaction model between product, business, and engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Define the future-state product management role, differentiating it from business ownership, business process ownership, technical product ownership, and engineering functions
• Develop and implement robust role architecture and competency models for critical product management positions, specifying outcome-based definitions and required business and technical fluency
• Design and document the interaction model between product, business, and engineering teams, establishing clear decision rights, workflows, and accountability from business intent through delivery
• Build and manage the transition and retirement map for current role families, supporting leadership in organizational direction and workforce planning
• Lead capacity planning, organization sizing, workforce requirements analysis, and talent transition frameworks in collaboration with workforce planning and change management teams
• Produce leadership-ready artifacts, including role comparisons, strawman models, and workshop materials, ensuring timely delivery aligned to fixed leadership milestones
• Collaborate with the Head of Product and internal HR and Legal stakeholders to align recommendations, maintaining a clear distinction between advisory input and client decision-making
• Integrate new skill requirements and operating approaches into product management roles to support the organization’s transition to an AI-enabled, specification-driven development model

Requirements

• Experience Range: 15 - 18 years of experience, including substantial hands-on experience designing and implementing product management functions within large, complex organizations, ideally in regulated sectors

Required Skills

• Product management function design and implementation in large, complex, or regulated environments
• Organization design and role architecture development
• Expertise in AI-enabled, specification-driven development models
• Experience managing product backlogs at program and enterprise scale
• Product roadmap and vision development for large-scale organizations
• Designing product blueprints and competency models
• Business process analysis and mapping across enterprise domains
• Advanced proficiency in presentation and documentation tools (e.g., PowerPoint, Miro, Lucidchart)
• Talent transition frameworks and workforce planning methodologies