Capgemini Invent / Synapse - Sr. Product Innovation & Strategy Manager

Product Innovation & Strategy Manager

At Capgemini Invent, we believe difference drives change. As inventive transformation consultants, we blend our strategic, creative, and scientific capabilities, collaborating closely with clients to deliver cutting-edge solutions. Join us to drive transformation tailored to our client's challenges of today and tomorrow. Informed and validated by science and data. Superpowered by creativity and design. All underpinned by technology created with purpose.

Synapse, a part of Capgemini Invent, is a product development consultancy working with the world's most ambitious companies to envision, create, and launch breakthrough AI-powered intelligent products. Sitting at the intersection of hardware, embedded systems, and AI, we specialize in engineering-led innovation that transforms business and unlocks entirely new market categories. Join an innovation team based in the heart of Silicon Valley at Capgemini's global innovation hub, Mission Rock. We bring new human-centered products to market through close collaboration across three capability units : Synapse, frog, and AIE.

The Product Innovation & Strategy team builds business value by connecting user needs, market trends, and client goals. We identify unmet customer needs and competitive opportunities, developing innovative and implementable product ideas. Our reason for being is to deliver a strategy that "ships," with a particular focus on AI-driven and hardware-enabled innovation. We work upstream in the product development lifecycle, framing opportunities through research, user insights, stakeholder alignment, and competitive analysis while maintaining line of sight to what is actually possible. We design and facilitate workshops to generate and evaluate early-stage concepts followed by multidisciplinary refinement, proofs of concept, and rapid prototyping. We prioritize the most promising ideas and assess them across user desirability, technical feasibility, sustainability, and business viability. Once vetted, we collaborate with engineering and other teams to further define, de-risk, and translate concepts into product requirements, design and engineering timelines, and product roadmaps, supporting development through manufacturing readiness.

As a Product Innovation & Strategy Manager, you will play a pivotal role in guiding clients through the early stages of product development - from ideation to impact.

Opportunity Framing & Concept Development

• Lead client engagements focused on identifying new product and service opportunities across AI and physical technologies.
• Conduct market research, trend analysis, and competitive benchmarking to uncover strategic opportunity areas.
• Lead client interviews to identify business goals, pain points, and unmet user needs.
• Facilitate ideation workshops to co-create innovative product and service concepts.
• Develop and downselect product concepts using our desirability-feasibility-sustainability-viability framework.
• Visualize and communicate ideas using customer journey maps, service blueprints, and value proposition canvases.
• Develop GTM strategies and monetization models aligned with market and business dynamics.

Cross-Collaboration & Execution

Commercial Development

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Capgemini is a global business and technology transformation partner, helping organizations to accelerate their dual transition to a digital and sustainable world, while creating tangible impact for enterprises and society. It is a responsible and diverse group of 340,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong over 55-year heritage, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to unlock the value of technology to address the entire breadth of their business needs. It delivers end-to-end services and solutions leveraging strengths from strategy and design to engineering, all fueled by its market leading capabilities in AI, cloud and data, combined with its deep industry expertise and partner ecosystem. The Group reported 2023 global revenues of 22.5 billion.

Job : Technology Strategy

Organization : INVENT PEOPLE NACP

Title : Capgemini Invent / Synapse - Sr. Product Innovation & Strategy Manager

Location : CA-San Francisco

Requisition ID : 080136