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What will your typical day look like?

    Sprint Leadership & Strategy:

• Lead discovery sprints focused on validating new product opportunities.
• Set sprint goals, timelines, and deliverables while balancing product discovery, market research, and business casing.
• Navigate ambiguity, iterating on direction based on research findings and stakeholder input.
  
  Research Methodologies & Market Validation:
• Design and implement tailored research plans, leveraging both qualitative (e.g., client interviews, user testing) and quantitative (e.g., market sizing, data analysis) methodologies.
• Lead the team through deep problem exploration, applying user-centered design principles to uncover unmet needs and validate solutions.
• Synthesize findings into actionable insights that inform product decisions, ensuring a balance of desirability, viability, and feasibility (without acronyms in deliverables).
  
  Product Discovery & Business Casing:
• Translate research insights into product concepts with strong problem-solution fit.
• Own the creation of business cases that outline market potential, user needs, and financial viability.
• Connect research findings to strategic recommendations, ensuring a clear case for or against investment.
  
  Stakeholder Engagement & Storytelling:
• Lead stakeholder communications, translating complex insights into compelling narratives that drive alignment and decision-making.
• Present sprint findings and product recommendations to asset owners, product teams, and Nova leadership.
• Proactively manage feedback loops and adjust sprint direction as needed.
  
  Team Leadership & Collaboration:
• Manage a small, agile team (yourself and a Sprinter) while flexing in cross-functional resources (e.g., UX researchers, designers, marketing) as needed.
• Mentor and guide the Sprinter, ensuring they develop strong research and product discovery skills.
• Foster a collaborative, feedback-driven environment that prioritizes learning and continuous improvement.
   

About the team

As an Incubation Sprint Manager, you will lead high-impact discovery sprints to validate new product ideas before they move into development. Working within a small, agile team, you’ll combine product discovery, market research methodologies, user-centered design principles, and business casing to de-risk investments and uncover problem-market fit. This role is hands-on and strategic, requiring the ability to drive sprints end-to-end, from research planning to stakeholder engagement, while ensuring insights are actionable and grounded in user and market needs.
 

Enough about us, let’s talk about you

We’re seeking a product discovery leader with a strong background in user-centered design, user research, or product strategy—not a traditional Product Manager. You should have experience leading 0-to-1 discovery efforts, using diverse research methodologies to uncover customer needs, validate product-market fit, and guide strategy. A background in user research, UX strategy, service design, or innovation labs is highly valued.

Must-Have Experience:
 

• Leading product discovery or validation efforts focused on problem exploration and solution testing.
• Applying user-centered design principles and human-centered research methodologies.
• Designing and conducting qualitative and quantitative research (e.g., user interviews, market scans, usability tests).
• Building strong narratives that translate research into clear product recommendations.
• Hands-on experience in early-stage product strategy and business casing.
   

Total Rewards

The salary range for this position is $85,000 - $156,000, and individuals may be eligible to participate in our bonus program. Deloitte is fair and competitive when it comes to the salaries of our people. We regularly benchmark across a variety of positions, industries, sectors, targets, and levels. Our approach is grounded on recognizing people's unique strengths and contributions and rewarding the value that they deliver.

Our Total Rewards Package extends well beyond traditional compensation and benefit programs and is designed to recognize employee contributions, encourage personal wellness, and support firm growth.  Along with a competitive base salary and variable pay opportunities, we offer a wide array of initiatives that differentiate us as a people-first organization. Some representative examples include: $4,000 per year for mental health support benefits, a $1,300 flexible benefit spending account, 38+ days off (including 10 firm-wide closures known as "Deloitte Days"), flexible work arrangements and a hybrid work structure.