Senior Product Manager, Accounting

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Senior Product Manager, Accounting based in United States. This is a senior product leadership role focused on transforming accounting and bookkeeping workflows for legal professionals and growing law firms. You’ll shape the product vision and roadmap across core accounting capabilities, balancing compliance, financial insight, usability, and emerging AI opportunities. The role requires strong accounting and bookkeeping fluency alongside excellent product judgment and the ability to simplify complex workflows. You’ll work closely with Design, Engineering, Data, Billing, Payments, Reporting, Compliance, and go-to-market teams to deliver meaningful customer outcomes. A major focus will be understanding where AI can responsibly improve accuracy, automation, and efficiency while preserving appropriate human oversight. You’ll build deep relationships with customers and financial practitioners, bringing their needs and real-world experience directly into product decisions. This is a high-impact environment for an entrepreneurial, outcomes-focused product leader who enjoys solving complex problems in a compliance-sensitive domain. Accountabilities: - Define and execute the product vision and roadmap for accounting capabilities, balancing regulatory and compliance requirements, business intelligence needs, customer value, and opportunities for AI-powered bookkeeping. - Establish a clear product perspective on where AI can accelerate, automate, and improve accounting workflows while identifying areas where human judgment and oversight should remain essential. - Partner with Design, Engineering, and Data teams to ensure product initiatives have clear success criteria, appropriate metrics, feedback loops, and measurable outcomes.

- Develop strong relationships with firm administrators, bookkeepers, accountants, managing partners, and other financial stakeholders to understand how financial decisions are made within legal practices. - Champion both compliance and business insight, helping customers maintain accurate financial processes while gaining a clearer understanding of their firm's financial performance. - Translate complex accounting concepts, bookkeeping workflows, and regulatory requirements into clear product requirements and intuitive customer experiences. - Collaborate across Billing, Payments, Reporting, and Platform teams to ensure accounting capabilities integrate effectively with the broader product ecosystem. - Partner with go-to-market, Customer Success, and Compliance stakeholders to increase adoption, reduce customer friction, and support successful expansion of accounting capabilities. - Communicate product strategy, priorities, roadmap decisions, and trade-offs clearly to diverse audiences, from technical teams to senior executives. - Apply design thinking and business process analysis to simplify complex workflows and create experiences that are intuitive without compromising accounting accuracy or compliance. - Maintain a strong customer focus by regularly engaging with users, incorporating their feedback into product decisions, and using customer experience alongside data to guide priorities. - Take ownership of outcomes across organizational boundaries, proactively addressing challenges and aligning multiple teams around measurable customer and business impact. Requirements: - 6+ years of product management experience, including meaningful experience in B2B SaaS, with a background in FinTech, accounting software, business operations tools, or a related domain strongly preferred. - Strong working knowledge of bookkeeping and accounting fundamentals, including double-entry bookkeeping, reconciliation, trust accounting, and financial reporting.