# Product Manager/Agile Master, AI and Digital Products

**Company**: Charles River Associates
**Location**: Boston, MA, United States; Chicago, IL, United States; Dallas, Texas, United States; Houston, Texas, United States; New York, NY, United States; Oakland, CA, United States; Washington, DC, United States
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $150,000 - $170,000
**Category**: Product Management
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

Charles River Associates is seeking a Product Manager / Agile Master to help accelerate the development and adoption of AI-enabled tools and digital capabilities across CRA’s practice areas.

The ideal candidate is a senior product-minded agile operator who can move comfortably between business strategy, consulting workflows, AI-enabled product development, and disciplined execution.

**Key Responsibilities**

- Product Discovery and Requirements: Work with domain experts across CRA’s practice areas to identify, structure, and prioritize AI and digital product opportunities; facilitate discovery sessions, user interviews, stakeholder workshops, and user story mapping sessions with consultants, corporate staff, data experts, and engineering teams; translate complex consulting workflows into clear product requirements, user personas, user journeys, epics, user stories, acceptance criteria, and success metrics.

- Roadmap, Backlog, and Prioritization: Create and maintain product roadmaps, prioritized backlogs, release plans, sprint plans, decision logs, and delivery artifacts that technical teams can execute against; clarify scope, minimum viable product definitions, release criteria, dependencies, decision rights, and definitions of done.

- Agile Delivery and Team Enablement: Run agile delivery processes across cross-functional teams, including sprint planning, backlog refinement, daily standups, sprint reviews, retrospectives, release planning, and cross-team dependency management; maintain delivery visibility through burn-down or burn-up reporting, RAID logs, dependency maps, release dashboards, and concise executive-ready status updates.

- Stakeholder Alignment and Governance: Serve as the connective tissue between senior stakeholders, practice experts, technical teams, and corporate functions; facilitate structured decisions when stakeholders have competing priorities, unclear ownership, unresolved risks, or differing definitions of success.

- Adoption and Continuous Improvement: Plan demos, pilot programs, beta feedback loops, launch communications, training materials, adoption support, and post-release reviews; collect feedback from consultants and corporate users and translate it into prioritized enhancements, usability improvements, and process changes.

**Desired Experience**

- Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering, Engineering, Product Management or related discipline, advanced degree welcomed;

- 5-8+ years of experience in product management, agile delivery, scrum leadership, business analysis, digital transformation, AI product operations, or technology-enabled consulting.

- Demonstrated experience translating ambiguous business needs into structured requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, roadmaps, release plans, and delivery plans.

- Hands-on experience running agile ceremonies and managing cross-functional product backlogs in Jira, Azure DevOps, or comparable tools.

**Career Growth and Benefits**

- CRA’s robust skills development programs, include formal and informal programs, encouraging you to thrive as an individual and team member.

- We offer a comprehensive total rewards program including a superior benefits package, wellness programming to support physical, mental, emotional and financial well-being, and in-house immigration support for foreign nationals and international business travelers.

## Skills

### Required
- Agile delivery
- product management
- AI-enabled product development
- Jira
- Azure DevOps

### Nice to have
- AI-enabled products
- generative AI
- knowledge management tools
- internal copilots
- RAG applications
- analytics platforms
- workflow automation
- enterprise data products

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