Lead Product Manager
Basic Function
As a Lead Product Manager for Wolters Kluwer, you’ll own a strategically important component of the Professional Audit workflow, a critical SaaS platform within the CCH Tax & Accounting portfolio. You won’t just define features; you’ll be accountable for driving the product success end-to-end. This role is for someone who thrives in a fast-moving environment, adeptly balancing multiple priorities, and making high-impact decisions even when information is incomplete. You’ll operate with a strong sense of ownership, combining product judgment, analytical rigor, and business acumen to drive meaningful outcomes.
Essential Duties And Responsibilities
- Product Ownership & Strategy
- Lead one or more offerings from 0-1 and beyond.
- Own the roadmap, long-term vision, and priorities for your team’s focus area.
- Establish clear definitions of success and drive initiatives toward measurable business and customer outcomes.
- Make informed, timely, thoughtful tradeoffs to balance speed, quality, and long-term strategic value.
- Execution & Delivery
- Translate strategy into clear requirements, specs, and success metrics.
- Collaborate closely with Engineering and Design to ship high-quality product enhancements.
- Manage multiple simultaneous workstreams, deadlines and navigating competing priorities while staying focused on what drives the greatest impact.
- Discovery & Decision-Making
- Deeply understand product performance through quantitative metrics and qualitative insights.
- Partner closely with design and research to deeply understand user problems, test assumptions early, and iterate toward elegant solutions.
- Identify leading indicators, diagnose emerging issues, and guide decisions through data-informed analysis.
- Business & Cross-Functional Leadership
- Apply a strong business mindset to decisions, understanding how Wolters Kluwer drives growth and revenue objectives.
- Partner with Go-To-Market stakeholders to enable successful outcomes and customer adoption.
- Communicate effectively with leadership and cross-function teams, articulating priorities, tradeoffs, risks, and impact.
- Serve as a trusted advisor on complex initiatives, guiding teams towards best practices and innovative solutions.
- AI-First Product Development
- Identify and champion opportunities where AI can unlock improvements in user experience and efficiency, or workflow quality.
- Partner with Engineering to design and deliver responsible, effective, AI-enabled capabilities.
- Maintain a high level of curiosity about emerging AI technologies and how they can be applied to audit.
Job Qualifications
- Education: Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university, or equivalent experience
- Computer Science or Software Engineering Degree preferred.
- Experience: 8+ years of Product Management and/or Founder experience, ideally in an early-stage or fast-scaling startup.
- Domain experience in Audit, Tax and Accounting or Regulated Industries preferred
- Other Knowledge, Skills, Abilities or Certifications:
- Demonstrated ability to own and scale a B2B product or product area with business impact.
- Strong business acumen and ability to think like an owner.
- Deep empathy for users and a passion for understanding real-world workflows and pain points.
- Strong intuition for the capabilities and limitations of LLMs and AI in general. This can be from hands-on experience with AI-powered tools, previous work experience, or educational coursework.
Travel Requirements
25% domestic, occasional international
Physical Demands
Normal office environment.
Other
- Compensation: $107,500.00 - $188,400.00 USD
- This role is eligible for Bonus.
- Compensation range listed is based on primary location of the position. Actual base salary offer is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skills, experience and actual hiring location.
Additional Information
Wolters Kluwer offers a wide variety of competitive benefits and programs to help meet your needs and balance your work and personal life, including but not limited to:
- Medical, Dental, & Vision Plans
- 401(k)
- FSA/HSA
- Commuter Benefits
- Tuition Assistance Plan
- Vacation and Sick Time
- Paid Parental Leave
Full details of our benefits are available upon request.