Principal Consultant - Product Management

About the role

We're looking for experienced Product Management leaders to help our clients define, build, launch, and improve digital products that create meaningful business and customer value. From advisory engagements to large-scale digital transformation efforts, our team partners with organizations to shape product strategy, modernize product management practices, and deliver measurable business outcomes. We help clients leverage AI, emerging technologies, and proven product management best practices to build stronger product organizations and accelerate delivery.

In this role, you'll work with business leaders, customers, design, research, data, engineering, operations, and other stakeholders to identify the right problems, evaluate tradeoffs, establish priorities, and deliver products that achieve measurable outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Own a digital product, product area, or product workstream based on each client's needs and maturity.
• Translate business objectives, customer needs, market insights, and technology considerations into product strategies, priorities, and roadmaps.
• Partner with research, design, analytics, engineering, and customer-facing teams to turn discovery insights into product decisions.
• Help clients evolve their product management capabilities by leveraging AI, emerging technologies, and modern product management best practices.
• Define and prioritize capabilities, features, releases, and backlogs based on value, feasibility, risk, and dependencies.
• Create product requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, release plans, and decision documents that move teams from concept to delivery.
• Facilitate planning, prioritization, roadmap, and stakeholder sessions that drive alignment and timely decisions.
• Evaluate product and technical tradeoffs while balancing customer value, business goals, delivery constraints, cost, and risk.
• Define and monitor product metrics tied to adoption, customer value, revenue, retention, efficiency, or quality.
• Support launches, adoption, and post-launch measurement when required by the engagement.
• Present recommendations, progress, risks, and decisions to client stakeholders and senior leaders.
• Contribute to proposals, sales presentations, and other product-focused business development efforts.
• Lead consultants and senior consultants through clear direction, thoughtful delegation, feedback, context-setting, and work review.
• Set high but realistic standards for quality, communication, problem-solving, and follow-through.
• Identify client pain points, future needs, new initiatives, renewal opportunities, or areas where Torq can provide additional support.
• Build relationships with stakeholders beyond the immediate project team, including senior leaders and decision-makers.
• Contribute to proposals, sales conversations, solutioning discussions, client presentations, and account growth strategies.

Requirements

• Ideally 7+ years of experience in product management, consulting, digital delivery, technology transformation, or a similar environment.
• Demonstrated experience owning a product, product area, or substantial product workstream.
• Ability to connect customer problems and business objectives to product vision, strategy, roadmaps, requirements, and measurable outcomes.
• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills, with comfort operating in fast-paced, ambiguous client environments.
• Proven ability to build relationships across product, business, technology, design, data, operations, and leadership teams.
• Experience defining roadmaps, backlogs, capabilities, features, releases, and supporting product artifacts.
• Working knowledge of Agile, Scrum, Kanban, hybrid delivery, or similar product development approaches.
• Ability to partner with discovery teams and turn customer, research, design, and data insights into product decisions.
• A business-minded, technically fluent approach, with familiarity with APIs, integrations, data flows, platforms, cloud environments, and software delivery.
• High self-awareness, openness to feedback, and accountability for client, product, and team outcomes.
• Ability to lead consultants and senior consultants through clear direction, thoughtful delegation, feedback, and work review.
• Comfortable setting high but realistic standards for quality, communication, problem-solving, and follow-through.
• Strong team orientation, including a willingness to coach others, share knowledge, and contribute to a positive team environment.
• Sound judgment when making decisions, escalating issues, resolving conflicts, and balancing client needs, team dynamics, delivery risks, and Torq's standards.
• Ability to create trust with clients and teammates through reliability, professionalism, candor, and follow-through.
• Ability to identify client pain points, future needs, renewal opportunities, or areas where Torq can provide additional support.
• Comfortable building relationships with stakeholders beyond the immediate project team, including senior leaders and decision-makers.

Bonus Experience

• Product tools such as Jira, Confluence, Amazon Kiro, Apptio, Miro, Figma, or PowerPoint.
• Product launches, go-to-market planning, release readiness, adoption, or change management.
• Enterprise platforms, cloud or data products, APIs, integrations, internal tools, mobile, or customer-facing digital experiences.
• Pricing, product positioning, competitive research, portfolio decisions, or regulated environments.

Benefits

• Competitive Salary.
• Unlimited PTO.
• Best-in-class health, vision, and dental benefits.
• Generous 401K options.
• Paid Parental Leave.
• Opportunity to be a key player at a highly reputable, fast-growing consulting firm.
• High degree of internal mobility and diverse project opportunities.

Pay

The salary range for this position is estimated to be between $130,000 and $160,000. The range considers multiple factors influencing compensation decisions, such as skillset, previous experience, certifications, and various business and organizational requirements.

Torq is an Equal Opportunity Employer. No visa sponsorship is available for this position; all applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States for any employer.