Product Manager - Audit Technology

Plante Moran•Southfield, MI

3d•$125,000 - $206,000•Hybrid

About The Position

We are seeking a strategic, outcome-driven Product Manager to shape the future of technology-enabled audit delivery by owning one or more products within the Audit product line. This role will define product vision and strategy, guide roadmap priorities, and partner across Assurance, technology, data, UX, platform, methodology, and vendor teams to translate practitioner needs and customer insights into scalable solutions. The ideal candidate brings a strong combination of modern product management discipline and assurance domain knowledge, with the ability to understand complex audit workflows, identify practitioner pain points, and shape product decisions that improve quality, efficiency, consistency, and user experience. This individual will help establish and mature product management practices as part of a broader operating model transformation.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Business, Technology, Accounting, Information Systems, or a related field; MBA, advanced degree, CPA, or equivalent designation is a plus.
5+ years of product management experience, preferably in audit technology, accounting software, professional services, or workflow-intensive software environments.
Demonstrated ability to develop product strategy, own roadmaps, manage the end-to-end product lifecycle, and translate business needs into scalable solutions.
Strong customer discovery, research, and user-centered design capabilities, with an ability to identify workflow challenges and unmet needs.
Data-driven decision-making skills, including experience using analytics, customer feedback, KPIs, business cases, and experimentation to prioritize and measure outcomes.
Excellent executive communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build trust, influence across levels, and align cross-functional teams.
Familiarity with agile, lean, and modern product operating models, including effective partnership with technology, data, UX, platform, business, and vendor teams.
Strategic thinking, change leadership, vendor and ecosystem awareness, and the ability to lead through influence in complex, cross-functional environments.

Nice To Haves

MBA, advanced degree, CPA, or equivalent designation

Responsibilities

Define and champion a clear product vision and strategy aligned with Assurance business goals, audit quality priorities, and practitioner needs.
Own and communicate the product roadmap, prioritizing initiatives based on customer impact, business value, strategic alignment, feasibility, and measurable outcomes.
Lead customer discovery with audit partners, engagement teams, quality leaders, methodology stakeholders, and operations teams to identify pain points and opportunities.
Monitor market trends across audit technology, accounting software, AI, analytics, automation, and adjacent industries. Use customer feedback, usage analytics, KPIs, experimentation, and business metrics to guide decisions, refine priorities, and measure value realization.
Partner with engineering, architecture, data, UX, platform, vendor, and business teams to deliver cohesive, scalable product solutions.
Create clarity across stakeholders and delivery teams regarding priorities, trade-offs, ownership, success measures, and outcome accountability.
Champion and help mature modern product management practices, including discovery, roadmap management, prioritization, experimentation, adoption planning, and value measurement.