Director, Product Management - Value-Added Tax (VAT)

Why Ryan?

• Competitive Compensation and Benefits

• Home Office Stipend

• Business Connectivity Reimbursement (Phone/Internet)

• Gym Membership or Equipment Reimbursement

• LinkedIn Learning Subscription

• Flexible Work Environment

• Tuition Reimbursement After One Year of Service

• Accelerated Career Path

• Award-Winning Culture & Community Outreach

Ryan, LLC is an award-winning global tax firm that liberates its clients from the burden of being overtaxed. By freeing our clients’ capital, we make it possible for them to invest, grow, and thrive – concentrating on what they do best. For years, Ryan has been delivering unparalleled value to many of the world’s most respected companies in the form of exceptional services, as well as cutting edge software solutions. In 2021, Ryan was named as One of the Best Places to Work by Glassdoor. Ryan has also been named one of the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For the past five years in a row.
We are on a mission to become the world’s trusted platform for tax, seamlessly delivering the right combination of software and expertise to become an intuitive extension of our clients’ tax capability.
The Director, Product Management is responsible for assisting with delivering a class-defining experience for the public facing look, feel and navigation for Ryan’s VAT Compliance solution. They work as part of a team that defines, creates and lead the implementation and execution of innovative strategies that deliver a consistent and trusted experience for Ryan clients.
This role is perfect for a leader who has an ownership mentality for driving impact, pursues data-informed insights, focuses on customer empathy and product craft, and loves to learn and execute. To be successful in this role, you need to have a bias for action, and be comfortable guiding decision-making based on a combination of hard data and incomplete or ambiguous information. You understand how to balance long-term bets with quick wins

Duties and responsibilities:

• Drive development of product strategy and associated roadmaps working in conjunction with VP of Product, business stakeholders and product development teams
• Build hypotheses and MVP scope to meet product goals and KPIs
• Analyze product and business data to create data-driven insights and drive iterative development
• Create a positive team member experience.
• Be responsible for direct interaction with business and technical stakeholders, including, but not limited to, eliciting comprehensive functional and technical requirements, use cases, and recommending appropriate solutions.
• Collaborate with business analysts and technical team to create user stories, requirements and functional specifications for development.
• Collaborate with User experience team to design user interface and user flows where needed
• Work with development team to estimate work and execute against plan and own and maintain an organized product backlog.
• Work with Development, QA, and Production Support teams to communicate, verify, and test the desired functionality changes.
• Facilitates cross-functional design sessions.

Education and Experience:

Minimum of years of direct work experience in a product management capacity in the Enterprise software space, preferably with large, complex technical initiatives.  Experience breaking problems down into component parts, analyzing data and creating hypotheses and MVPs against stated goals. Experience working across agile-based Software Development Lifecycle and processes. Experience in taxation and/or financial services strongly desired but not required.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Leadership of teams and mentoring of junior resources
• Anticipates and proactively delivers expected results for executive leadership team
• Effectively solves problems
• Streamlines and improves processes
• Demonstrates initiative and provides complete follow-through on areas of responsibility
• Advanced written, visual and verbal communication skills
• Superior attention to detail
• Demonstrates accuracy and thoroughness
• Sense of urgency
• Demonstrates willingness to be flexible and adaptable to changing priorities
• Thrives working both independently and in a team-based environment
• Strong multitasking and organizational skills

Computer Skills:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must have advanced skills in Microsoft® Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Outlook, SQL and relational databases.

Certificates and Licenses:

Valid driver’s license required. 

Supervisory Responsibilities:

Requires supervisory responsibilities, including managing projects, training employees, assigning work, and making sound business decisions while representing the Firm.

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