Product Development Owner

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Illinois.

📋 Description

• Take ownership of outcomes for the product area by managing a Now/Next/Later roadmap aligned with system year and PI objectives.

• Establish success metrics, commit to deliverable Now scope, and make trade-off decisions when priorities shift.

• Develop new products, features, and concepts from inception to adoption while re-evaluating existing product areas.

• Outline client preparation, reconciliation, and validation workflows and design automation, rules-based checks, and AI-assisted workflows.

• Measure impact through hours saved, errors averted, and reductions in cycle time.

• Collaborate with engineering to determine measurable client value from AI, defining accuracy, auditability, explainability, security, and human-review guardrails.

• Employ AI to draft and refine features, user stories, acceptance criteria, test scenarios, and release notes.

• Analyze usage data and client feedback while exploring the codebase to comprehend current behavior.

• Create backlog items with testable acceptance criteria in Azure DevOps or Linear.

• Lead refinement sessions, sprint planning, PI planning, and sprint demonstrations.

• Identify and manage dependencies across teams.

• Use product analytics, support trends, and client research to guide roadmap prioritization.

• Define and evaluate adoption KPIs within 90 days of each release.

• Partner with the scrum-team escalation owner to gather client feedback and prioritize issues.

• Draft actionable bug and enhancement work items, validate fixes through user acceptance testing, and apply Corptax UX standards.

• Work in collaboration with go-to-market, Product Marketing, and Marketing teams from concept through launch.

• Foster awareness and adoption for products, features, and concepts while integrating client and market feedback into the backlog.

• Present the roadmap, progress, and risks to clients, sales teams, and executives.

• Review client-facing communications and address missed commitments with recovery plans.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of relevant experience in product ownership or product management, or tax and accounting experience with direct involvement in software delivery.

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent experience.

• Practical experience utilizing AI tools in daily tasks, with specific examples of automating or eliminating manual, repetitive processes and measuring outcomes.

• Proficient in deconstructing complex workflows into manageable steps, identifying which can be automated or validated by rules, and drafting requirements.

• Experience in taking a new product, feature, or concept from idea to adoption, or re-evaluating an existing area, with evolving requirements based on evidence.

• Familiarity with AI limitations, including accuracy, hallucination, and data privacy, along with judgment on when human review is necessary.

• Working knowledge of agile methodologies and backlog management tools such as Azure DevOps, Jira, or Linear.

• Comfortable working with data, including Excel, basic SQL, and product analytics tools.

• Strong communication skills for engaging with both technical and non-technical audiences, including clients and executives.

• Proven ability to prioritize, manage time, fulfill commitments, and make decisions on cutting, pivoting, or halting work based on evidence.

• Preferred experience in corporate tax, including provision, US or international compliance, or Pillar Two.

• Familiarity with Power Automate or Alteryx is preferred.

• Preferred comfort level in reading code or navigating a GitHub repository.

• Experience in building reusable AI workflows, prompt libraries, or agents is preferred.

🏝️ Benefits

• Annual success-sharing bonuses or commission plans based on individual performance.

• Annual leave.

• Tuition reimbursement.

• Referral bonuses.

• Competitive and comprehensive benefits package.

• Hybrid or remote work schedules as business needs allow and in accordance with local regulations.

• Accessibility support and resources for colleagues with disabilities.