Product Manager, Column Tax
Experienced
2-3 days a week in office
All-in-one income tax products
Be an early applicant
All-in-one income tax products
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
2-3 days a week in office
21-100 employees
Company mission
To democratize access to financial help and meaningfully improve people’s lives by providing game-changing tax solutions.
Role
Who you are
- 5-6+ years of professional experience in Product or a related role
- You have experience as a Product Manager for a B2C product or B2B API product (Bonus: PM for a Fintech B2C)
- You have experience working closely with go-to-market teams and either (A) Running pilots with customers or (B) Launching new products with customers
- You have experience communicating highly technical concepts and working closely with engineers
- You have strong written communication skills
- You get excited about doing the little things needed to get a product to market
- You are able to handle ambiguity & change
What the job involves
- Improvise, adapt, overcome. We are a start-up, so everyone is encouraged to participate across teams, and proactively solve problems and create solutions
- A focus on empathy, communication and teamwork. Tax software can’t be solved alone. You will be working collaboratively with Engineers, Tax analysts, Design, and GTM on almost every project
- A strong sense of ownership. You'll be empowered to shape the product roadmap
- Talk to customers and users: talk directly to our partners, prospects, and taxpayers to deeply understand their needs
- Work with GTM on strategy: work with our GTM team to decide on our Product strategy
- Execute: work with Engineering, Design, and Tax to spec and execute on our most-important projects
- Week 1
- Meet everyone at Column Tax and get a run down of what everyone does
- Get set up and make your first changes
- Start & finish your first mini project
- Month 1
- Lead and ship your own project
- Demo your work at our company all-hands!
- Talk directly with partners, prospects, and users
- Month 3
- Strategize and plan our next-up work
- Decide on the product lifecycle: what should we build to meet our users' needs?
- Bring clarity + energy to the team while championing your longer-term vision
Application process
- Step 1: Intro call with one of our founders or another member of the team
- We want to get to know you and for you to get to know us!
- On this call, we will talk about your professional background, what types of problems you like to solve, and what you want out of your next role
- It’s also your opportunity to ask with any questions you have about the business and how else we would be able to support you
- Step 2: Product scenario exercise
- Show off your product thinking in a (fun!) product scenario exercise
- Step 3: On-site interview or work trial
- Tell us about your previous work & values, see what working with us would be like, and work through a product problem live with the team either via a one-day "onsite" or via a paid work trial (full or part-time for ~1 week)
- Step 4: Offer!
- At Column Tax, we’re committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace
- If you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with everything in the job description, we still encourage you to apply
- You might be the right person for the role and we’d love the opportunity to meet you!
Our take
Year-round access to accountants and tax advisers has long been limited to the wealthy. Column Tax is a mobile income tax software platform that aims to solve this problem by giving ordinary people high-quality, year-round financial support.
Column Tax makes it easier for users to file their taxes and access their tax refunds, which will no doubt appeal to the large percentage of Americans that rely financially on rebates. The company's software differs from programs such as TurboTax in that it is mobile-only, and it integrates with users' existing banking apps. This year-round integration will save users valuable time on their annual tax preparation.
The company has raised considerable investment, and expanded services to cover state tax filings atop its original federal-only offering. In continuing to expand the scope of its products and integrations, Column Tax is building a pathway into future success.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
May 2022
$21.7m
SERIES A
Nov 2021
$5.1m
SEED
Total funding: $26.8m
Company benefits
- Unlimited PTO with a minimum
- High quality, health, vision & dental coverage
- MacBook & home office budget
- Free tax prep each year
Company values
- Focus: we know that doing great work takes long blocks of uninterrupted time
- Ownership: everyone at Column Tax is empowered to make big decisions
- Transparency: expect honest & vulnerable communication
- Vision: everyone on our team dreams big about solving complex problems
- Doing the right thing: Tax is an industry with a history of predatory practices; we’re determined to fix that
Company HQ
Civic Center, New York, NY
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Leadership
Michael R. Bock
(CTO)Studied Computer Science and Business Administration at USC. Worked as a Software Engineer at YouTube, Google and Waymo. Was a Senior Software Engineer at Aurora.
Gavin Nachbar
(CEO)Majored in Mathematical Economics at Colorado College, and worked as Sales Strategy & Operations Lead at Dropbox. Was Head of Sales & BizOps at Premise Data, and Head of Operations Strategy at Waymo.
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