Digital Product Engineering Consultant Associate(September 2026 - Toronto)

IBM

IBM

Product

Toronto, ON, Canada

Posted on Apr 30, 2026
Introduction

In this role, you will join IBM Consulting via our world-class Associates Program for university hires. As an Associate Consultant at IBM Consulting, you will have the opportunity to work with a diverse range of clients worldwide. Our clients' technical and business needs are constantly evolving. We're hiring inspired, talented individuals who believe no problem is too big to solve.

We focus on your professional development through ongoing learning, mentorship, development of technical skills, and continuous personal growth, all grounded in a culture of coaching and career advancement. If you see yourself as someone who never stops learning and who wants to unleash your potential, the IBM Consulting Associates Program is for you.

A career in IBM Consulting is rooted in long-term relationships and close collaboration with clients across the globe.

Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation for success in IBM Consulting. In your role, you'll be encouraged to challenge the norm, investigate ideas outside of your role, and come up with creative solutions that result in ground-breaking impact for a wide network of clients. Our culture of evolution and empathy centers on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.

Your role and responsibilities

As an Associate Consultant at IBM, you will work directly on client engagements, contributing to the delivery of digital product initiatives across a range of industries. This role offers the opportunity to build deep consulting and product experience, strengthen technical and analytical skills, and develop as a trusted contributor on client teams.

At IBM, we prioritize continuous learning, professional growth, and career progression within a strong culture of coaching and mentorship. As a new Associate, you will receive structured on-boarding, access to training, and hands-on project experience designed to accelerate your development as a consultant.

Work experience you could be exposed to:

Client Engagement & Problem Solving: Partner closely with clients and delivery teams to understand business challenges and user needs, and translate those insights into clear goals for digital product solutions

Digital Product Delivery: Support the delivery of web and mobile digital products by contributing to feature definition, prioritization, and documentation that aligns client objectives with user value

Software Delivery Life-cycle & Collaboration: Collaborate with designers, engineers, and consultants across the software development life cycle, participating in Agile ceremonies and supporting delivery from discovery through release

Delivery Management & Continuous Improvement: Track progress, dependencies, and risks while applying product thinking and technology awareness to help deliver high-quality solutions and continuously improve client outcomes

This role is ideal for early‑career professionals who are passionate about product thinking, consulting, and technology, and are eager to gain exposure working with diverse clients, grow their skills and delivering meaningful impact.

This position resides in Toronto commencing in September 2026. It is mandatory that all applicants are graduated from studies at a post-secondary institution at the time of their start date.Please note that MBA and PHD candidates are not eligible for this program.

Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Preferred education
None
Required technical and professional expertise
  • Hands-on experience supporting digital products across discovery and delivery, with an understanding of how products create user and business value.
  • Working knowledge of Agile product delivery principles, with the ability to contribute effectively to Agile ceremonies and product teams.
  • Experience creating product documentation, such as user stories, epics, feature definitions, or Product Requirement Documents (PRDs), that clearly articulate user needs, business goals, and acceptance criteria.
  • Analytical mindset with the ability to break down complex product problems into actionable requirements, hypotheses, or delivery tasks.
  • Understanding of user-centered design and/or service design practices (e.g., journey mapping, service blueprinting) and how insights inform product requirements and prioritization.
  • Interest in applying AI and emerging technologies to enhance products, improve user experiences, or drive operational efficiency.
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work alongside product managers, designers, engineers, and business stakeholders.
  • Strong attention to detail, including tracking dependencies, risks, assumptions, and progress across features or workstreams.
  • Effective time management and prioritization skills in a fast-paced client-delivery environment.
Preferred technical and professional experience
  • Previous experience in a product or consulting role/internship.
  • Experience contributing to a product roadmap, backlog, or project planning process.
  • Exposure to Agile delivery responsibilities, such as presenting in backlog refinement, sprint planning, standups, or retrospectives.
  • Foundational understanding of technical and digital product concepts, including: APIs and systems integration.
  • Web and/or mobile application development fundamentals o Data concepts such as data flows, analytics, and basic data mapping o Software development lifecycle concepts and roles within engineering teams.
  • Familiarity with product, design, and delivery tools such as Jira, Confluence, Azure DevOps, Figma, Miro, or similar platforms.
  • Exposure to modern technology trends, including AI-enabled product development.

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Consulting is IBM’s consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients’ businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

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ABOUT IBM

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

Must have the ability to work in Canada without sponsorship.

This role will involve working with technology that is covered by Export Regulations sanctions. If you are a Foreign National from any of the following US sanctioned countries (Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, and the Crimea, Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson, and Zaporizhia regions of Ukraine) on a work permit, you are not eligible for employment in this position.

The salary range for the position is based on a full-time schedule. Your ultimate salary within this range may vary depending on your job-related skills and experience for this position.

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