Hostaway is a SaaS scale-up transforming the vacation rental industry with innovative solutions. As a Staff Product Manager for Trust Accounting, you will define and execute the product strategy for an embedded trust accounting solution, ensuring it meets regulatory requirements while delivering an exceptional user experience.
Responsibilities:
- Develop and champion a product vision and roadmap for our Trust Accounting solution that aligns with the overall company strategy and regulatory compliance requirements
- Plan and execute thorough customer research and analysis to deeply understand the needs and pain of property managers and accountants, translating those insights along with legal requirements into product specifications and user stories
- Collaborate closely with UX/UI designers to create intuitive and user-friendly experiences that simplify complex accounting workflows
- Partner with legal and accounting subject matter experts to ensure all regulatory requirements are properly addressed while maintaining excellent user experience
- Prioritize and manage the product backlog, ensuring alignment with business objectives, compliance needs, and user requirements
- Oversee the entire product development lifecycle, from ideation and design to development, testing, and launch of trust accounting features
- Define and analyze the metrics that determine success, ensuring the product not only meets compliance standards but also demonstrably simplifies the financial operations of the Property Managers we serve
- Spearhead the discovery of our reporting and insights layer. You'll identify the essential compliance reports, operational dashboards, and financial statements that provide clarity, ensure audit-readiness, and deliver indispensable value to our users
Requirements:
- Significant experience in product management (typically 6+ years), with a specific focus on accounting software systems
- Proven leadership in managing complex, cross-domain products from ideation to launch, working closely with engineering teams to make ideas turn into real solutions
- Deep understanding of financial operations, compliance and accounting systems, ideally in the US landscape
- Strong customer empathy and experience translating insights into impactful product decisions
- Proven ability to own complex product strategies and deliver industry-leading solutions
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to interpret data and translate it into actionable insights
- A strong ability to work with subject matter experts to detect and extract pain points into tangible, user-centric but compliant product solutions