Product Consultant

Summary

Join Apply Digital as a Product Consultant and play a pivotal role in Kraft Heinz's digital transformation. Collaborate with a multidisciplinary team, owning product delivery and execution. Gather requirements, analyze user feedback, and build trust with clients. Contribute to product roadmaps, prepare documentation, and work in an Agile environment. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure successful product launches and operationalization. This role requires strong communication, problem-solving skills, and experience with digital product development.

Requirements

• You have strong English language proficiency
• You have experience working with remote teams in North America and LATAM, ensuring smooth collaboration across time zones. This role requires clear communication and coordination across distributed teams, including our clients
• You have a minimum of 4 years of experience in a Product Management role where you developed digital products that you have shipped, managed, and operated
• You bring previous experience in a consultation role or similar roles, through an Agency, Consultancy, or other Professional Services Firm
• You have performed product ownership and product discovery and are able to leverage relevant product management frameworks and mental models to validate problem spaces and potential solutions
• You bring experience with composable platforms, marketing websites, and mobile products, including contributing to product strategy, roadmap development, and feature execution
• You have experience with products using headless applications like Contentful (CMS), Algolia (search), Cloudinary (DAM), Segment (CDP), Auth0 (IAM), and other MACH platforms
• You have experience using AI tools to optimize and accelerate your workflows
• You aim to develop exceptional client service skills and excel in communication when working with your team, client stakeholders, and leadership
• You are comfortable navigating client situations and recommending paths to resolving uncertainty and can work effectively across disciplines in a client-facing capacity
• You have the ability to deconstruct epics into individual users stories and can lead a product squad to navigate uncertainty
• You are perceptive, a creative leader, and a problem solver. You are curious and you work with your team and your stakeholders to find the best possible solution
• You are professional, confident, and able to discern which ideas will work
• You understand both technical and non-technical languages and can convey technical concepts to non-technical people as well as turn business, UX, design requirements into technical specifications
• You thrive on turning ambiguity and conflicting information into clarity in a fast-changing environment

Responsibilities

• Assemble detailed requirements for product, platform, and commerce initiatives, navigating stakeholder and technology ecosystems
• Retrieve and analyze feedback from end users, customers, stakeholders, other teams, and various research methods to shape requirements, features, and end products
• You are able to build trust and inspire confidence with clients by understanding their needs and using product management frameworks to align them on your thinking, rationale, and proposed decisions/recommendations
• Contribute to creating product plans and roadmaps with the goal of getting the buy-in of executive stakeholders
• Prepare, review, and achieve alignment on product requirements documents (PRD), product alignment documents (PAD), and product briefs
• Build products in an Agile fashion and collaborate with cross-functional teams to enable an entire Agile environment towards your product
• Collaborate with Project Managers and Scrum Masters to establish operational processes and lead delivery teams
• Create user stories with acceptance-criteria and actively manage an Agile backlog
• Collaborate with the delivery team to identify and document tasks, estimate story-points, and plan and manage delivery sprints
• Work closely with designers, software engineers, and QA to ensure requirements have been delivered to specifications, defects have been managed through to resolution, and assess readiness for launch
• Organize product releases and prioritize properly, ensuring compliance with business value expectations
• Collaborate with stakeholders and internal teams to define and implement the go-to-market strategy. Partner with operations teams to ensure successful product releases and operationalization
• Prepare recommendations to track product use and impact on end users
• Prepare recommendations to expand product base and vision based on data and research-driven insight
• Add value to the team - you are not just an order-taker. You understand what it means to drive ROI through business and customer value, you understand the constraints from all directions, and you use your consultative skills to make recommendations to move vision forward

Benefits

• Location: Apply Digital is a hybrid friendly organization with remote options available if needed. The preferred candidate should be based in (or within a location commutable to) Delhi/NCR, with the ability to overlap with the US/NA times zones when required
• Comprehensive Benefits: benefit from private healthcare coverage, contributions to your Provident fund, and a gratuity bonus after five years of service
• Vacation policy: work-life balance is key to our team’s success, so we offer flexible personal time offer (PTO); allowing ample time away from work to promote overall well-being
• Great projects: broaden your skills on a range of engaging projects with international brands that have a global impact
• An inclusive and safe environment: we’re truly committed to building a culture where you are celebrated and everyone feels welcome and safe
• Learning opportunities: we offer generous training budgets, including partner tech certifications, custom learning plans, workshops, mentorship, and peer support