Director, Product Management

About the role

KPMG is assembling a founding team of builders, innovators, and problem solvers to create new products, shape new ways of working, and help define the future of technology-enabled business at KPMG. We seek a Director, Product Management to join our Product organization, operating with the energy and pace of a startup while backed by the scale and resources of a global network.

Responsibilities

• Shape strategy, development, and commercialization for a product line by turning existing firm assets and emerging client solutions into an integrated software-powered business portfolio
• Assess market opportunities across customer segments, client offerings, and use cases
• Collaboratively recommend and jointly drive business cases, pricing, packaging, and investment recommendations with offering leaders
• Set integrated, multi-year product roadmaps, resolving competing priorities, dependencies, and investment trade-offs across products and teams
• Partner with senior leaders across client delivery, technology, markets, pricing, and global and member firms to advance product launches and growth within applicable budget, risk, and compliance requirements
• Define metrics for the product line (adoption, retention, revenue, and other business outcomes) and ensure instrumentation exists to measure them; use evidence to guide commercialization and roadmap decisions
• Manage cross-functional team relationships to drive cohesive product development, delivery, and commercialization; help establish product management craft at KPMG (standards, artifacts, operating rhythm) and build AI-native product line management capability across teams
• Act with integrity, professionalism, and personal responsibility to uphold KPMG’s respectful and courteous work environment

Qualifications

• Minimum ten years of recent experience in product management, including owning a B2B or enterprise software product end to end
• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university is preferred; minimum of a high school GED is required; or a minimum of twelve years of equivalent professional experience is required
• Demonstrated experience taking products from early concept to market (product strategy, roadmap ownership, and launch) across multiple products, customer segments, or markets
• Deep understanding of product commercialization principles, methodologies, and best practices
• Ability to think strategically and develop long-term product business plans that align with business objectives and customer needs
• Demonstrated daily use of AI across working practice and products where AI was core to the product rather than decorative; experience guiding market evaluation, business cases, pricing and packaging recommendations, commercialization plans, and product investment decisions
• Ability to use market, customer, product, and financial insights to make complex product decisions, influence senior leaders, and drive commercial growth
• Preferred functional expertise in one or more of the following areas:
  • Chief Financial Officer (CFO) technology, including financial close, consolidation, financial planning and analysis (FP&A), enterprise resource planning (ERP)-adjacent applications, and finance transformation platforms
  • Commercial banking and lending technology (origination, servicing, loan operations)
  • Risk, compliance, and regulatory technology, including governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) platforms, regulatory reporting solutions, model risk management, financial crime prevention and detection, and controls automation technologies
• Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for employment-based visa sponsorship now or in the future

California Salary Range: $198,000 – $368,000