Product Lead, Collective

• 5-6+ years of product management - You have a deep understanding of the product craft throughout the entire product lifecycle - delivering successful & innovative products
• Accounting or accounting-adjacent expertise – You understand accounting, how accounting factors into a business day-to-day, implications of getting it right/wrong, regulatory requirements, and operational considerations
• An “owner” and “driver” mindset – You are biased toward action and get stuff done. No task is too big or too small for you. You strive to solve problems independently, while striking the balance of asking for help
• Experience working in a fast-paced, high-growth environment
• Drive for simplicity & elegance – Ability to take on complex product challenges and find elegant, simplifying solutions to avoid making them our customers’ and partners’ problems
• A high-quality bar – For your own contributions and those of the people around you
• Comfort & skill with ambiguity - Ability to independently solve ambiguous problems with first principles and structured thinking
• Strong written and & communication - High signal, clear & succinct, and structured communication
• Fluency with data – You’ve worked on ML (or data-heavy) products in the past, and are comfortable running A/B tests. You know how to leverage data to make product decisions without getting stuck in analysis paralysis
• Intellectual curiosity & humility – Product development is a deep team sport. You are intellectually curious, a team player, and have strong opinions loosely held w/ humility

Desirable

• We are looking for a Product Lead to lead our AI-enabled Accounting product
• In this role, you will bring to life Accounting automations and experiences to ensure consistently accurate and seamless bookkeeping for our ever-growing customer base
• As the product lead, you will set the vision, strategy, roadmap, and lead execution for your area
• You will help your product development team navigate uncertainty with structured thinking & communication, make decisions with strong product & analytical sense, and be highly effective at execution & knocking down barriers
• Own the product area vision, strategy, implementation, and customer & business outcomes for Accounting
• Work closely with AI engineers and subject matter experts to bring to life AI-driven product experiences - for example: Categorizing transactions using LLMs
• Work with the Accounting operations team to ensure they have the tools and workflows to be effective. Determine where product automation & AI can unlock efficiencies
• Lead and inspire an XFN team to ship innovative experiences
• Deeply understand business and product performance to ensure the team is focused on the highest leverage opportunities that balance long-term growth with immediate business needs
• Manage the roadmap and team processes to enhance the quality and velocity of execution, and make tradeoff decisions between business priorities and available resources
• Drive effective partnership both cross-functionally, across product teams, and with external partners to ensure the team achieves strong business outcomes
• Define the framework and metrics to measure the impact of the team; deeply understand the core drivers and monitor progress​​