Project Manager - Periscope
McKinsey & Company
Driving lasting impact and building long-term capabilities with our clients is not easy work. You are the kind of person who thrives in a high performance/high reward culture - doing hard things, picking yourself up when you stumble, and having the resilience to try another way forward.
In return for your drive, determination, and curiosity, we'll provide the resources, mentorship, and opportunities you need to become a stronger leader faster than you ever thought possible. Your colleagues—at all levels—will invest deeply in your development, just as much as they invest in delivering exceptional results for clients. Every day, you'll receive apprenticeship, coaching, and exposure that will accelerate your growth in ways you won’t find anywhere else.
When you join us, you will have:
- Continuous learning: Our learning and apprenticeship culture, backed by structured programs, is all about helping you grow while creating an environment where feedback is clear, actionable, and focused on your development. The real magic happens when you take the input from others to heart and embrace the fast-paced learning experience, owning your journey.
- A voice that matters: From day one, we value your ideas and contributions. You’ll make a tangible impact by offering innovative ideas and practical solutions, all while upholding our unwavering commitment to ethics and integrity. We not only encourage diverse perspectives, but they are critical in driving us toward the best possible outcomes.
- Global community: With colleagues across 65+ countries and over 100 different nationalities, our firm’s diversity fuels creativity and helps us come up with the best solutions for our clients. Plus, you’ll have the opportunity to learn from exceptional colleagues with diverse backgrounds and experiences.
- World-class benefits: On top of a competitive salary (based on your location, experience, and skills), we provide a comprehensive benefits package to enable holistic well-being for you and your family.
You will be responsible for shaping and driving product plans, ensuring alignment with business strategy, user needs, and market trends.
You will define and execute comprehensive product strategies that align with client goals across brands, markets, and products, while continually improving existing offerings. Leveraging insights from customer and competitor research, you will prioritize and guide the development of innovative solutions, translating business needs into functional requirements. Your responsibilities will involve close collaboration with technology, support, and client service teams to manage product updates and deployments, as well as defining and tracking KPIs to identify opportunities for growth and improvement. Additionally, you will lead workshops and training sessions to showcase product features, ensuring both internal teams and customer users are equipped to maximize value.
You will play a pivotal part in steering cross-functional teams, including product owners and engineering delivery teams, to design and deliver impactful solutions that address business challenges. You will build and maintain key relationships across the organization to deliver prioritized product roadmaps and partner with marketing, sales, and partner organizations to develop effective go-to-market strategies. Accountability for the growth and success of the products will be central to your responsibilities, as will fostering innovation and creativity.
Based in McKinsey’s Periscope team in Gurgaon or Bangalore, India, you will contribute to the technology backbone of McKinsey’s Growth, Marketing & Sales Practice. Periscope combines world-class intellectual property, prescriptive analytics, and cloud-based tools to drive revenue growth and sustain commercial transformation for businesses globally.
The Growth, Marketing & Sales Practice strives to help clients in both consumer and business-to-business environments on a wide variety of marketing and sales topics. Our clients benefit from our experience in core areas of sales and marketing topics such as sales and channel management, branding, customer insights, marketing ROI, digital marketing, CLM, and pricing. Our practice offers an exceptional opportunity to work at the intersection of sales, marketing, and consulting. Focusing on issues like redefining sales and marketing operations and commercial transformation, our people help clients build capabilities and transform how companies go to market-moving them to customer-centric organizations.
Periscope leverages its world-leading IP (largely from McKinsey but also other partners) and best-in-class technology to enable transparency into Big Data, create actionable insights, and new ways of working that drive lasting performance improvement, and typically sustain a 2-7% increase in return on sales (ROS). With a truly global reach, the portfolio of solutions is comprised of: Marketing Solutions, Customer Experience Solutions, Category Solutions, B2C Pricing Solutions, B2B Pricing Solutions, and Sales Solutions. These are complemented by ongoing client service and custom capability building programs.
Periscope has a presence in 27 locations across 16 countries with a team of 800+ IT and business professionals and a network of 300+ experts. To learn more about how Periscope’s solutions and experts are helping businesses continually drive better performance, visit www.mckinsey.com/periscope.
Your Qualifications and Skills
- Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, information systems, engineering management, or equivalent area
- 6+ years of experience in engineering program or project management, with a focus on DevOps, SRE, and cloud infrastructure delivery within enterprise SaaS environments
- Deep working knowledge of DevOps toolchains and platforms — including CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), IaC (Terraform, Ansible), and cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP) — sufficient to evaluate technical tradeoffs and hold engineering teams accountable to delivery quality
- Proven track record managing Agile delivery at scale using SAFe, LeSS, or custom frameworks, with hands-on experience in Jira, Confluence, and Azure DevOps Boards to manage backlogs, sprint cadences, and program-level roadmaps across multiple concurrent workstreams
- Strong command of engineering productivity and delivery metrics including DORA (deployment frequency, lead time, MTTR, change failure rate), OKR/KPI frameworks, and capacity planning models used to drive data-informed team performance decisions
- Experience managing engineering budgets, vendor contracts, and cloud cost optimization initiatives, including chargeback models, reserved instance strategies, and procurement cycles in a multi-tenant SaaS context
- Familiarity with PCI-DSS compliance requirements, audit trail management, and data residency regulations as they apply to DevOps delivery pipelines and infrastructure operations in retail SaaS platforms
- Own end-to-end delivery of DevOps and infrastructure programs — managing scope, timeline, budget, and quality — while coordinating dependencies across platform engineering, security, and product teams to consistently meet SLA and release commitments
- Build and scale high-performing DevOps teams of 10+ engineers by driving structured hiring pipelines, onboarding programs, career development frameworks, and retention strategies that reduce attrition and accelerate team capability growth
- Establish and continuously refine delivery processes — from incident response playbooks to release governance cadences — balancing engineering agility with the operational rigor required for enterprise retail SaaS platforms serving peak traffic events such as Black Friday and seasonal promotions.
- Exceptional stakeholder management skills, with a demonstrated ability to build trust and alignment across engineering leadership, product management, finance, and external vendor partners in high-visibility program environments
- Strong leadership presence in cross-organizational settings — program reviews, incident bridges, capacity planning sessions, and executive briefings — with the ability to translate complex technical constraints into clear, decision-ready narratives and ability to foster an inclusive, psychologically safe team environment where engineers at all levels are empowered to raise risks, contribute to architectural decisions, and grow into senior technical and leadership roles