Product Director, Shine
Accounting
Online banking management platform
Posted today
Online banking management platform
201-500 employees
Posted today
201-500 employees
Company mission
To simplify the daily life of business leaders and freelancers to allow them to focus on what really matters: their success.
Role
Who you are
- You have deep accounting or bookkeeping domain knowledge — you understand double-entry bookkeeping, chart of accounts design, VAT reconciliation, and statutory exports. You don't need it explained
- You have led product teams working on complex, foundational B2B SaaS products — ideally in accounting, ERP, or fintech. You know what it means to own infrastructure that other teams depend on
- You are an architectural thinker who can hold the tension between shipping near-term and building for scale — and make deliberate trade-offs rather than defaulting to one or the other
- You thrive under real operational pressure — sequencing compliance deliverables across markets, making architectural trade-offs on a live platform, and moving fast without waiting for perfect information
- You lead with confidence and empathy through change — giving your PMs and designers real ownership, setting outcome-based goals, and raising the quality of discovery and delivery without becoming the bottleneck
- You are AI-fluent across the board — you use AI tooling in your own workflow, you think critically about where AI changes what accounting software should do, and you can shape product bets where AI is a core capability (auto-categorisation, anomaly detection, intelligent reconciliation)
- You are comfortable owning cross-team dependencies and sequencing under pressure
- You communicate with precision — with engineers on system design, with accountants on workflow needs, and with leadership on strategic trade-offs
- You are fluent in English
What the job involves
- The Accounting Core Area is the engine behind Shine's accounting platform
- We own the foundational layer that makes accounting possible for thousands of small businesses and their accountants across Europe — the bookkeeping engine, chart of accounts, VAT services, journal management, and statutory reporting
- This area is entering one of the most consequential phases in Shine's history
- We're building the accounting infrastructure that will power the next generation of our platform across multiple European markets — and we're doing it while the platform is live and scaling
- The team is currently evolving its structure to better reflect this ambition, moving toward a model organized around a universal accounting engine and market-specific compliance layers
- This is a rare opportunity to shape that transition from the inside
- As Product Director, Accounting Core, you own the accounting engine at the heart of Shine's platform
- This is not a maintenance role — you are responsible for evolving foundational infrastructure while shipping the compliance deliverables that matter most to our accountant and SMB customers across Europe
- Own the Accounting Core roadmap end-to-end — balance near-term compliance deliverables with the long-term architecture bets that determine whether Shine can scale across European markets
- Lead and develop your product teams — support and challenge your PMs, designers, and engineering leads. Set a high bar for outcome-focused discovery and delivery
- Drive cross-market compliance coverage — own bookkeeping, VAT, journal management, and statutory reporting across our core markets, and sequence what gets built when
- Define the engine architecture for the next phase — in partnership with engineering leadership, shape how the accounting engine is structured to serve multiple markets without multiplying complexity
- Be the voice of Accounting Core — translate domain complexity into clear product constraints for adjacent teams and leadership
- Track what matters — bookkeeping completion rates, compliance coverage by market, and the overall health of the engine
Application process
- We usually respond within a week
Our take
Many people dream of starting a business, but the stresses of banking and accounting prevent them from ever doing so. Hiring accountants is expensive and traditional bookkeeping platforms are failing to meet the demands of today's fintech landscape, showing the demand for an updated take on business banking software.
Shine provides an online banking management platform, offering banking and accounting services for SMEs, freelancers, startups, and agencies. The company's financial experts handle the accounting to free up time, in addition to offering consulting services for business growth and creation.
The rise of open banking has resulted in the fintech industry becoming oversaturated with startups, but Shine shows great potential to stand out due to its comprehensive accountancy services for any business size. Through this approach, the company aims to make online banking services more flexible and accessible whilst providing its customers with insightful and up-to-date financial advice.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
41% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Sep 2018
$9.2m
SERIES A
Jul 2017
$3.2m
SEED
Total funding: $12.4m
Company benefits
- 👩💻 1 day of freelancing per month: The opportunity to put yourself in the shoes of our customers (with a free premium account!)
- 👪 8 weeks second parent leave + 3 days sick child leave
- 💚 Mutuelle: 100% health coverage for you and your family
- 🌏 Work from our Parisian offices or from your home (in France and in some European countries): Shine takes care of a furniture leasing to settle in well at home or a coworking space near you
- 🍱 Restaurant tickets: €9.05 per day for your lunches
- 🎶 Culture budget of €275 per year to buy books or listen to music
- 🤸 Sports pack: €300 per year to take care of yourself
- 🚴♂️ Bike + transport: Participation in transport costs, on folding seat or cycle path (Shine reimburses the kilometers made by bike!)
- ☀️ 8 to 10 days of RTT per year for all
- 🏝 1% holiday bonus paid in June
Company HQ
Mail, Paris, France
Leadership
Nicolas Reboud
(Co-Founder & CEO)Experience as Senior Consultant for Auriverde. Co-founder of Mayoz from 2010 to 2013, and of Printic from 2013 to 2017.
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