Product Development Owner
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Product Development Owner shaping AI-powered tax software capabilities at CSC Corptax. Automating client data preparation, validation, and compliance workflows.
Responsibilities:
- Own outcomes for the product area by maintaining a Now/Next/Later roadmap tied to system year and PI goals
- Define success metrics, commit to deliverable Now scope, and make trade-off decisions when priorities change
- Shape new products, features, and concepts from idea to adoption and rethink existing product areas
- Map client preparation, reconciliation, and validation workflows and design automation, rules-based checks, and AI-assisted workflows
- Quantify impact through hours saved, errors prevented, and cycle-time reduction
- Partner with engineering to identify measurable client value from AI and define accuracy, auditability, explainability, security, and human-review guardrails
- Use AI to draft and refine features, user stories, acceptance criteria, test scenarios, and release notes
- Analyze usage data and client feedback and explore the codebase to understand current behavior
- Write backlog items with testable acceptance criteria in Azure DevOps or Linear
- Lead refinement, sprint planning, PI planning, and sprint demos
- Identify and manage dependencies across teams
- Use product analytics, support trends, and client research to prioritize roadmap decisions
- Define and review adoption KPIs within 90 days of each release
- Partner with the scrum-team escalation owner to understand client feedback and prioritize issues
- Write actionable bug and enhancement work items, validate fixes through user acceptance testing, and apply Corptax UX standards
- Collaborate with go-to-market, Product Marketing, and Marketing teams from concept through launch
- Build awareness and adoption for products, features, and concepts and incorporate client and market feedback into the backlog
- Present roadmap, progress, and risks to clients, sales, and executives
- Review client-facing communications and raise missed commitments with recovery plans
Requirements:
- 5+ years of recent product ownership or product management experience, or tax and accounting experience with direct involvement in software delivery
- Undergraduate degree in Accounting, Finance, Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent experience
- Hands-on use of AI tools in daily work, with concrete examples of automating or eliminating a manual, repetitive process and measuring the result
- Ability to break complex workflows into discrete steps, identify steps that can be automated or validated by rules, and write requirements
- Experience taking a new product, feature, or concept from idea to adoption, or rethinking an existing area, with requirements changing as evidence emerges
- Working knowledge of AI limitations, including accuracy, hallucination, and data privacy, and judgment on when human review is required
- Working knowledge of agile methodologies and backlog tools such as Azure DevOps, Jira, or Linear
- Comfort working with data, including Excel, basic SQL, and product analytics tools
- Effective communication with technical and non-technical audiences, including clients and executives
- Demonstrated ability to prioritize, manage time, deliver on commitments, and decide when to cut, pivot, or stop work based on evidence
- Corporate tax experience preferred, including provision, US or international compliance, or Pillar Two
- Experience with Power Automate or Alteryx preferred
- Comfort reading code or navigating a GitHub repository preferred
- Experience building reusable AI workflows, prompt libraries, or agents preferred
Benefits:
- Annual success-sharing bonuses or commission plans based on individual performance
- Annual leave
- Tuition reimbursement
- Referral bonuses
- Competitive and comprehensive benefits package
- Hybrid or remote work schedules as business needs allow and in alignment with local regulations
- Accessibility support and resources for colleagues with disabilities
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