Senior Director of Product, Taxfix
Consumer
+ Stock Options
2+ days a week in office
Digital tax solutions
Be an early applicant
Digital tax solutions
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
+ Stock Options
2+ days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To enable anyone, regardless of education or background, to file their taxes with newfound confidence.
Role
Who you are
- You've led product at a high-growth B2C consumer tech company and delivered results under real commercial pressure. You've owned a multi-team product area, not a single feature stream
- You've grown a major product line in a fiercely competitive market and you know how to decide what not to do
- You optimise for the company's outcome, not your org's size. You've made calls that were right for the user and the business even when they didn't maximise your own product area
- You've built something real users love and you can describe exactly why it worked, what metric moved, and what you'd do differently
- You've shipped AI products that changed user behaviour. In production, used at scale
- You've led people and raised the bar. People who've worked with you got better, and you can name how
- You believe experimentation is key to products that win. You're fluent in testing methods (A/B, bandits), you treat experimentation velocity as a metric that matters, and you make calls from evidence rather than opinion
- You've built a product vision from scratch and got an organization to follow it because the argument was clear, not because of authority
- You've made hard trade-offs visible and held the line when everything felt urgent
- You are genuinely AI-native. You use AI in your own practice daily with workflows, coding assistants, real product problems as a way of working
- You're fluent in English and German, given the primary market and the teams you'll lead
- Not sure if you meet all the requirements for this role? Please apply anyway. You might bring something special to the team that we hadn't considered previously
What the job involves
- As Director of Product for Self-Filing, you will own our core self-filing product lines. You set the product vision, lead the strategy, and drive the quality of execution across a set of high-autonomy Builder teams
- You work as a duo with the Commercial leader of your business area. The Commercial leader owns the what, why, and how much. The Director of Product owns the how — the product vision, the roadmap, the craft, and the delivery
- You'll report directly to the Chief Product Officer, with full senior sponsorship to move fast and make the big calls
- Own the product vision and roadmap. You set the product direction for self-filing in Germany and make it clear to the builders working with you, to your commercial partner, and to leadership. You make trade-offs visible and hold the line when priorities need protecting
- Shape the two-brand strategy. Taxfix and Steuerbot are two trusted brands serving the same market. You'll play a central role in how they evolve: where they converge and where they stay distinct
- Build the AI-native product. You've been applying AI as a design lens, not following the trend. You have a clear POV on where AI removes genuine cognitive load in the filing journey and where it's noise. You push the team to build experiences that weren't possible 18 months ago and to reimagine filing itself: from a once-a-year event into a year round optimization experience
- Grow beyond filing into wealth creation. This area is evolving from a once-a-year filing product into a broader, year-round financial relationship. You'll help shape and build the relationship to adjacent financial services that deepen value for users and give them a reason to stay with us between filing seasons
- Be the definitive authority on the user. You've done more user interviews than most of the team combined. You describe your users as people, not segments, and you use that to kill bad ideas early and back good ones hard. Your instincts come from direct contact, not distance
- Lead your Builder teams. Small, high-autonomy teams who own the full loop from idea to production. You set the bar for craft, give them a vision sharp enough to act on, and create the conditions where ambitious work and fast execution coexist. You raise the floor and push the ceiling
- Prioritise ruthlessly in a competitive market. This is a fiercely contested space with strong, sometimes free, alternatives. You decide what not to do as clearly as what to do, and you grow the product through focus, not by trying to do everything
- Push the team on experimentation. You treat experimentation as an engine of product decisions, not a nice-to-have. A/B tests, bandits, and how fast the team can run, read, and act on experiments are first-class metrics you own and push relentlessly
- Be the commercial partner, not the commercial owner. Your duo partner owns the P&L. Your job is to translate their ambition into a product that can deliver it and to push back clearly when the product path and the commercial ask don't align. You hold the quality bar even when the pressure is to ship faster or cut corners
- Own delivery transparency. What's in flight, what's at risk, what's shipping and when. If something will be late or descoped, you say so early to your teams, your partner, and upward. No surprises
Our take
For many people, filing taxes is still a painstaking, confusing and outdated process. In Germany alone, around 10 million people each year decide not to claim their tax refund for this reason. Taxfix solves this problem by making it easier to file tax returns and claim rebates.
Taxfix serves as a personal tax accountant, something that many of its users don't have access to. The app functions much like any chatbot, offering in-depth guidance and optimising the tax filing process. Users can typically file their taxes in under 20 minutes using the app, which will appeal to anyone looking to save time and effort on their personal finances.
Taxfix is not alone in offering this service, but it sets itself apart from rivals thanks to its mobile-first approach. The company has been well-served by its innovative and attractive app interface and acquired its German competitor Steuerbot in 2023. A year later it entered the UK market by acquiring smaller competitor Taxscouts, establishing itself as the European leader in its sector.
Steph
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Insights
7% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Apr 2022
$220m
SERIES D
Apr 2020
$65m
SERIES C
Total funding: $326.5m
Company benefits
- A chance to do meaningful, people-centric work with an international team of passionate professionals
- Holistic wellbeing with free mental health coaching sessions, yoga, and a discounted membership to Urban Sports Club
- A monthly allowance to spend on home support services, including childcare, housekeeping, pet sitting, tutoring, and elderly care
- Employee stock options for all employees—because everyone deserves to benefit from the success they help to create
- Dedicated relocation and visa support for those that need it
- 30 annual vacation days and flexible working hours
- Full trust to take ownership of your work in a flat hierarchy where feedback is encouraged and expected
- A generous learning budget to support your personal and professional development and guidance from our internal L&D experts
- Work from abroad for up to six weeks every year. Just align with your team, and then enjoy your trip
- Plenty of opportunities to socialise as a team. In addition to internal meetups, our international team hosts regular get-togethers—virtually and in person when possible
- Free tax declaration filing, of course, through the Taxfix app—and internal support for all personal tax-related questions
- Have a four-legged friend in your life? We’re happy to have dogs join us in the office
Company HQ
Mitte, Berlin, BE
Leadership
Mathis Büchi
(Chairman & Co-founder)Previously co-founded Encounter Korea and Smallpdf. Currently Founder and CEO at Genova.ai.
Lino Teuteberg
(Co-founder)Former CEO of the company. Previously worked as an Interaction Developer at springen, and co-founded Smallpdf.
Martin Ott
(CEO)Was a Board Member at AfriKids, President and Managing Director (Europe, Middle East and Africa) at WeWork, and VP, MD (Central Europe) at Meta.
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