Associate Director, Product Software and Transformation
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Job description
An Associate Director role in Crosslake's Value Creation team within the Product, Software and Transformation practice, leading value creation engagements for private equity investors and portfolio company leadership teams. The role turns product, software and technology opportunities into measurable business outcomes.
At a glance
- Work mode
- Remote
What you'll do
- Lead value creation engagements day to day, including defining the key questions, building the workplan, managing workstreams and keeping the team focused on the issues that matter most to the client.
- Bring structure to complex product, software and transformation challenges, breaking broad opportunities into clear hypotheses, analyses, workstreams and decision points.
- Develop compelling executive-level narratives that synthesise analysis, client input and specialist perspectives into practical recommendations.
- Build trusted relationships with senior stakeholders across business, product, technology and finance, helping clients navigate competing priorities and align around decisions.
- Translate effectively between commercial and technical audiences, ensuring recommendations reflect business priorities, product realities, architecture implications and delivery feasibility.
- Link product, software and transformation initiatives to value creation economics, including opportunity sizing, business cases, investment requirements, benefits, trade-offs and execution risks.
- Challenge assumptions, pressure-test recommendations and identify where deeper product, engineering, architecture, data, cybersecurity or transformation expertise is needed.
- Drive engagements beyond analysis towards clear decisions, prioritised actions and a pragmatic path from recommendation to execution.
What we're looking for
- Experience operating at a level comparable to a high-performing consulting Engagement Manager, Project Leader, Associate Director or Senior Consultant, with a track record of leading complex client engagements.
- A strong consulting toolkit, ideally developed in a leading strategy, digital or transformation consultancy, or through comparable experience in high-stakes advisory or transformation environments.
- Proven ability to take ambiguous problems, impose structure, develop hypotheses, drive rigorous analysis, manage teams and translate findings into a clear executive storyline.
- Meaningful functional depth in one or more of transformation, product, software delivery, operating model design, technology strategy or technology architecture.
- Strong commercial and financial acumen, including the ability to size opportunities, build business cases, quantify benefits, understand investment needs and evaluate strategic trade-offs.
- Credibility with senior executives and functional leaders, including CEOs, CFOs, CTOs, CPOs and leaders across product, engineering, architecture and transformation.
- Confidence operating at the intersection of business strategy, product, software and technology, with enough domain understanding to ask the right questions and challenge the quality of recommendations.
- A hands-on leadership style: senior enough to build confidence with executives, while close enough to the work to guide analysis, challenge team thinking and personally shape the storyline.
- A practical, action-oriented mindset aligned with Crosslake's values of service, curiosity, credibility, commitment and creativity.
Your team
Value Creation team, Product, Software and Transformation practice
The team works with private equity investors and portfolio company leadership teams to turn product, software and technology opportunities into measurable business outcomes.
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About Crosslake Technologies LLC
Crosslake helps private equity investors and portfolio company leaders drive value creation through technology, combining the expert judgment of experienced practitioners with proven frameworks, tech-enabled solutions and objective data to help organizations navigate critical technology decisions across diligence, transformation, growth, cybersecurity, AI and operational execution.
Mission
Helping private equity investors and portfolio company leaders drive value creation through technology.
Key facts
- Focused on helping private equity investors and portfolio company leaders drive value creation through technology
- Works across diligence, transformation, growth, cybersecurity, AI and operational execution
What they value
- Service
- Curiosity
- Credibility
- Commitment
- Creativity