[Hiring] Technical Product and Innovation Manager @EY

Role Description

We're looking for a Technical Product & Innovation Manager to support the Digital Talent Strategy Lead in establishing and maturing a product-led organization for talent technology. This role will shape the governance, investment strategy, technical roadmap, and operating disciplines required to manage the portfolio at enterprise scale, while leading Client Zero initiatives that connect strategy, user needs, and technical delivery.

Your key responsibilities

• Technology Portfolio Strategy & Investment:
  • Define and implement the talent technology investment strategy and multi-horizon technical roadmap.
  • Maintain an integrated view of the talent technology inventory, portfolio, demand, delivery capacity, dependencies, technical debt, risk, cost, and value.
  • Prepare decision-ready recommendations that balance user value, strategic alignment, feasibility, effort, cost, risk, architectural fit, and expected outcomes.
• Product Organization, Governance & Value:
  • Implement practical product governance, operating rhythms, lifecycle standards, ownership, documentation, escalation paths, and decision rights across the portfolio.
  • Establish forums that connect strategy, investment decisions, demand, architecture, delivery, risk, and value realization.
  • Track adoption, experience, quality, reliability, efficiency, cost, risk, and realized value.
  • Align Talent leaders, users, product managers, technical teams, vendors, and implementation partners on outcomes, requirements, constraints, quality expectations, and commitments.
• Product Discovery, Demand & Delivery:
  • Partner with Demand Management to assess ideas, enhancements, integrations, defects, and modernization opportunities.
  • Translate validated needs into business cases, process flows, requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and decision documentation.
  • Coordinate refinement, estimation, dependency management, release planning, prototyping, testing, UAT, launch readiness, and post-launch reviews.
• Client Zero Innovation & Scale:
  • Lead Client Zero talent technology initiatives from use-case definition through implementation, adoption, measurement, and readiness for broader scale.
  • Evaluate emerging capabilities, including generative AI, agentic workflows, automation, self-service, and platform releases.
  • Manage an innovation and enhancement pipeline that advances high-value ideas through discovery, experimentation, launch, stabilization, adoption, and measurement.

Skills and attributes for success

• Product organization design, governance, and operating model implementation.
• Talent technology investment strategy and technical roadmap management.
• Client Zero innovation, experimentation, and scale.
• Integrated technology portfolio and value-based prioritization.
• Product discovery, process mapping, requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Backlog prioritization, agile delivery, UAT, quality management, and release readiness.
• Enterprise platforms, integrations, data flows, security, privacy, and risk.
• Executive communication, facilitation, and cross-functional influence.

Within your first 12-24 months, you will:

• Establish and operationalize a product organization and governance model.
• Define and activate a talent technology investment strategy and multi-horizon technical roadmap.
• Launch a Client Zero pipeline that validates priority talent technology use cases.
• Establish a reliable, integrated view of the talent technology inventory, roadmap, demand, dependencies, risks, investment choices, and decision points.
• Implement a consistent intake-to-delivery process that improves requirement quality, prioritization, ownership clarity, and delivery predictability.
• Build and actively manage an innovation and enhancement pipeline.

Qualifications

• Relevant experience in technical product management, HR or talent technology, enterprise platforms, digital transformation, product operations, or technology consulting.
• Demonstrated success establishing or materially maturing a product organization.
• Experience defining a technology investment strategy and technical roadmap.
• Experience leading Client Zero, internal-first, pilot, or incubation initiatives.
• Experience managing roadmaps and backlogs, leading structured discovery, and coordinating delivery.
• Experience with enterprise HR platforms or service-delivery technologies preferred.
• Working knowledge of integrations, APIs, data flows, security, privacy, technical debt, testing, release management, and platform lifecycle practices.
• Strong analytical and financial judgment and a bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience in a relevant field.

Benefits

• Comprehensive compensation and benefits package.
• Base salary range for this job varies by location:
• New York City, Boston, and Washington DC Metro Areas, Washington State, and Southern California offices – $144,000 to $244,800.
• Bay Area California offices – $150,000 to $255,000.
• All other offices locations in the US, including Sacramento – $120,000 to $224,400.
• Total Rewards package includes medical and dental coverage, pension and 401(k) plans, and a wide range of paid time off options.
• Flexible vacation policy allowing you to decide how much vacation time you need.
• Time off for designated EY Paid Holidays, Winter/Summer breaks, Personal/Family Care, and other leaves of absence.