Lead Product Manager

The Lead Product Manager – AI Solutions role is a hands‑on, individual contributor position that drives the definition and execution of AI‑first and AI‑enabled product capabilities within a defined product area. This position owns the end‑to‑end lifecycle for features and capabilities, partnering closely with engineering, UX, tax research, security & governance, and go‑to‑market teams to translate customer needs, market insights, and technical possibilities into clear product requirements and delivered outcomes. The role contributes meaningfully to AI product strategy and roadmap execution by ensuring AI capabilities are customer‑ready, continuously improving, and delivering measurable business impact. Qualifications Minimum of 3 years of hands‑on AI product experience commercially launching AI‑driven and data‑intensive product capabilities. Experience applying responsible AI principles, including traceability, privacy, security, bias awareness, transparency, and auditability within owned capabilities. Clear, structured communication skills, conveying priorities, trade‑offs, risks, and progress to cross‑functional stakeholders. AI Fluency: ability to experiment directly using AI tools for faster product prototyping; understand how modern AI systems and AI agents behave, improve over time, and fail; use these characteristics to influence product decisions and user experience evolution; create or curate representative mock or synthetic datasets to support experimentation, evaluation, and validation. Bachelor’s degree in business, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent combination of education, training, and relevant professional experience. Some experience mentoring or coaching junior product owners on AI fluency and product development practices. Responsibilities Define clear product requirements for AI‑powered capabilities and AI‑enabled integrations, with explicit expectations for evaluation criteria, and feedback mechanisms built into the roadmap. Partner closely with engineering teams on model evaluation, experimentation, and tuning, to identify opportunities for iterative improvements, and assess release readiness. Drive the continuous evolution of AI features by identifying gaps through customer feedback, usage metrics, AI performance signals, and translating those insights into sequenced roadmap investments and delivery milestones. Curate and maintain a capability‑level AI roadmap for assigned AI features and core capabilities, prioritizing incremental improvements that drive quality, trust and customer value. Metrics‑driven product delivery, including defining success metrics, assessing outcomes, and using findings to guide iteration. Benefits US Base Salary Range: $157,900.00 – $205,400.00 (base pay may vary based on factors including relevant industry, job‑related skills and experience, geographic location, and business needs). The range displayed does not encompass the full potential of the role, which allows for further growth and career progression. Eligibility for the Vertex Bonus Plan, role‑specific sales commission/bonus, and/or equity grants. Vertex is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against based on disability. If you would like to view a copy of the company's affirmative action plan, please email View email address on click.appcast.io. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request a reasonable accommodation as part of the employment selection process, please contact View phone number on click.appcast.io or View email address on click.appcast.io. This telephone line and email address is reserved solely for job seekers with disabilities requesting accessibility assistance or an accommodation in the job application process. Please do not call about the status of your job application if you do not require accessibility assistance or an accommodation. #J-18808-Ljbffr