Associate Director, Tech Product Management

KPMG is a great place to work and build a career, providing audit, tax, and advisory services for organizations in today's most important industries. Our growth is driven by delivering real results for our clients and is enabled by our culture, which encourages individual development, embraces an inclusive environment, rewards innovative excellence, and supports our communities.

KPMG is currently seeking an Associate Director, Tech Product Management to join our Digital Nexus technology organization. This is a hybrid work opportunity.

Responsibilities

• Manage the overall delivery of technology products for KPMG Emerging Technology products and releases utilizing agile and other product management methodologies; set tactical plan for the execution of the strategic objectives of the programs; ensure development of actionable strategies align with firm priorities.
• Deliver effective conflict resolution between individuals and teams with an assertive but friendly attitude; provide effective methods and practices for managing and resolving impediments.
• Act as an expert in estimation and planning techniques; explain and teach release planning in an empirical environment; clarify the differences between various Scrum Scaling frameworks and approaches.
• Advocate for modern agile software development and organizational practices, such as XP, CI / CD, Devops, TDD, and more; automate flow of Project Status and facilitate continuous and real-time transparency for effective communication, support, and decision making.
• Assist with coaching and training both individuals, teams, and programs to clarify goals, break anti-patterns, and put plans in place to achieve stronger results; utilize different agile techniques to improve the efficiency of the development team.
• Coach product owners on managing scaled product backlog of epics and features, and facilitate decision making with product owners and architects; mentor and support a product owner in effective techniques for backlog creation, management, and refinement; demonstrate effective techniques for managing team interruptions, and for protecting the team in a sprint; work beyond team boundaries to improve efficiencies, flow of work, and value delivered.
• Act with integrity, professionalism, and personal responsibility to uphold KPMG's respectful and courteous work environment.

Qualifications

KPMG offers a comprehensive compensation and benefits package. KPMG is an equal opportunity employer. KPMG complies with all applicable federal, state, and local laws regarding recruitment and hiring. All qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship status, disability, protected veteran status, or any other category protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.

J-18808-Ljbffr