Senior Product Manager - DIFM

TAXWELL•Haverford, PA

19d

About The Position

Taxwell is hiring a Senior Product Manager to lead product strategy, 0→1 innovation, and execution for Drake, our professional desktop and emerging cloud-based tax, solutions used by thousands of tax firms. This role owns the product roadmap, annual tax season delivery, and long-term evolution of the professional tax portals and document import platform. You will focus on improving preparer productivity, ensuring compliance with federal and state tax law changes, and maintaining a high performance, reliable experience during peak season. We are looking for a strong product leader who understands complex software, values operational excellence, and can balance innovation with stability in a mission critical environment. In addition, this role will identify and build new product capabilities from ideation through launch, helping shape the future of our cloud-based tax ecosystem.

Requirements

6 or more years of product management experience in software
Experience building or scaling cloud-based / SaaS products
Proven ability to manage complex release cycles under tight deadlines
Strong analytical and problem solving skills
Strong ability to balance innovation with operational excellence
Excellent communication and cross functional leadership skills
High attention to detail and execution
Demonstrated ability to prioritize effectively using structured frameworks, balancing customer value, business impact, effort, and regulatory constraints

Nice To Haves

Experience in tax, accounting, fintech, or compliance driven products is a plus

Responsibilities

Define and own the product vision and roadmap, including both platform evolution and new product innovation
Balance innovation with platform stability and reliability, in a mission critical environment
Identify opportunities to improve core workflows, customer value, and new product offerings
Evaluate opportunities using customer insights, data, and market analysis
Lead planning and execution of annual tax law updates
Partner with compliance and tax content teams to implement federal and state changes accurately and on time
Prioritize features and enhancements within fixed regulatory deadlines
Ensure product readiness and performance during peak tax season
Improve preparer workflows including return preparation, review, and electronic filing
Use customer insights and data to drive measurable improvements
Partner with engineering on performance, architecture, and technical priorities
Collaborate with support, sales, and go to market teams
Communicate priorities and trade offs clearly to stakeholders and leadership
Identify and validate new product opportunities through customer discovery, data, and market trends
Lead initiatives from ideation → validation → MVP → launch → early scale
Rapidly test and iterate using experiments and customer feedback
Explore opportunities to apply AI, automation, and modern cloud capabilities