Director, Product Management

Basic Function

The Director of Product Management is responsible for leading the strategy, execution, and commercial success of a portfolio of key Audit products, spanning both cloud and on-prem offerings that serve as the foundation for future innovation.

This role owns these products end-to-end, spanning business outcomes, customer value, and technical evolution. The Director will unify and evolve the portfolio into a cohesive platform while partnering closely on the transition toward next-generation, AI-enabled and agent-assisted audit capabilities.

This leader will align cross-functional teams to deliver both near-term results and durable platform capabilities that support future innovation.

Essential Duties and responsibilities

Product Strategy & Vision

• In support of the audit leader, lead the multi-horizon product strategy across a portfolio of key audit products (cloud and on-prem) , inclusive across all global regions
• Establish a clear direction for how these products evolve as a foundation for future platform and AI capabilities
• Balance core product investment (stability, compliance, usability) with forward-looking enhancements
• Translate market trends, customer needs, and emerging technologies into a cohesive product strategy and roadmap

Business & Commercial Ownership

• Own product-level outcomes, including revenue growth, retention, adoption, and profitability
• Drive pricing, packaging, and monetization strategy in partnership with GTM teams
• Develop and manage business cases, investment trade-offs, and prioritization decisions
• Establish and manage KPIs and performance scorecards for owned products

Product & Platform Leadership

• Ensure strong integration across key products within the portfolio, creating a seamless customer experience
• Drive platform thinking to enable shared capabilities, data models, and extensibility
• Partner closely with Engineering to evolve scalable, modern, and data-enabled architecture
• Champion a holistic product approach that connects workflows across the audit lifecycle

Product Team Management

• Build, lead, and develop a high-performing team Product Managers
• Align and coordinate work across multiple product areas and teams, ensuring PMs deliver cohesive customer experiences and measurable business outcomes.
• Elevate the strategic capability of the team, coaching PMs to think commercially, make principled trade-offs, and connect product decisions to market impact, financial performance, and company strategy.
• Act as a multiplier for team effectiveness, proactively identifying gaps in skills, structure, or processes and implementing improvements that increase velocity, clarity, and impact across the organization.

Customer & Market Leadership

• Maintain deep understanding of audit personas, firm dynamics, and regulatory environments
• Act as a voice of the customer in product decisions and external engagements
• Lead market and competitive analysis to inform product direction and differentiation
• Build strong feedback loops to continuously validate product direction and outcomes

Driving Alignment & Execution

• Align Product, Engineering, UX, Sales, Marketing, and Services around shared product outcomes
• Drive clarity on trade-offs, sequencing, and investment decisions
• Ensure disciplined execution through roadmaps, planning cadences, and performance tracking
• Lead scenario planning and resource allocation across owned products

AI & Data-Informed Product Leadership

• Partner closely with leadership on the evolution toward AI-enabled and agent-assisted audit experiences
• Provide product input, domain expertise, and prioritization guidance to shape AI and agentic initiatives
• Ensure owned products and platform capabilities are well-positioned to support AI-driven workflows
• Champion a data-informed product culture, leveraging analytics, experimentation, and customer insights
• Stay current on how AI is reshaping product development, UX, and competitive dynamics, and apply those insights to product strategy
• Drive adoption of modern product practices, including instrumentation, hypothesis-driven development, and outcome-based measurement

How You Will Operate

• End-to-End Product Ownership: Accountable for strategy, performance, and outcomes of key products
• P&L Mindset: Make investment decisions grounded in business and customer impact
• Strategic Leadership: Set direction and align multiple teams to deliver against it
• Execution Through Others: Deliver outcomes through Product Managers and cross-functional partners
• Cross-Functional Influence: Drive alignment across Product, Engineering, and GTM
• Adaptability & Resilience: Navigate legacy constraints while evolving toward modern platforms

Other Duties

Perform other duties assigned by supervisor.

Job Qualifications

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field or equivalent experience
• Master's degree (MBA, MS in Innovation, or related field) preferred

Experience:

• 10+ years in product management within B2B SaaS or enterprise software
• 5+ years leading product managers across a portfolio or set of related products
• Proven experience owning product strategy and business outcomes
• Experience with platform products, workflow systems, or data-driven applications

Other Knowledge, Skills, Abilities or Certifications:

• Strong business and financial acumen
• High degree of data fluency: ability to define metrics, interpret data, and drive decisions through analytics
• Deep experience in customer discovery and product-market fit
• Strong understanding of how AI is impacting product development and user expectations
• Ability to operate across technical and commercial domains
• Exceptional communication and influence skills

Preferred skills:

• Experience in audit, accounting, or regulated industries
• Experience modernizing legacy/on-prem products to cloud platforms
• Familiarity with AI-enabled or data-intensive products

Travel requirements

30% Domestic Travel

Physical Demands

Normal office environment.

Our Interview Practices

To maintain a fair and genuine hiring process, we kindly ask that all candidates participate in interviews without the assistance of AI tools or external prompts. Our interview process is designed to assess your individual skills, experiences, and communication style. We value authenticity and want to ensure we're getting to know you-not a digital assistant. To help maintain this integrity, we ask to remove virtual backgrounds and include in-person interviews in our hiring process. Please note that use of AI-generated responses or third-party support during interviews will be grounds for disqualification from the recruitment process.

Applicants may be required to appear onsite at a Wolters Kluwer office as part of the recruitment process.

Compensation:

$151,700.00 - $270,950.00 USD

This role is eligible for Bonus.

Compensation range listed is based on primary location of the position. Actual base salary offer is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skills, experience and actual hiring location. Your recruiter can share more information about the specific offer for the job location during the hiring process.

Additional Information:

Wolters Kluwer offers a wide variety of competitive benefits and programs to help meet your needs and balance your work and personal life, including but not limited to: Medical, Dental, & Vision Plans, 401(k), FSA/HSA, Commuter Benefits, Tuition Assistance Plan, Vacation and Sick Time, and Paid Parental Leave. Full details of our benefits are available upon request.