IT Product Manager IV

Russell Tobin is recruiting for a confidential client seeking an IT Product Manager to lead product strategy and delivery for a core tax-filing experience. The role focuses on improving usability, accuracy, and customer confidence through cross-functional execution, experimentation, and AI-powered capabilities.

Responsibilities:

• Own the product vision and strategy for a core piece of the Tax filing experience, balancing near-term delivery with long-term foundational investment
• Identify and prioritize high-impact opportunities to improve usability, accuracy and customer confidence across the product
• Drive the development of AI-powered and personalized capabilities that reduce customer effort and improve outcomes
• Partner with Design and Engineering to make complex experiences feel simple, intuitive and trustworthy
• Use experimentation, customer research and data to validate ideas, measure impact and continuously iterate
• Lead end-to-end execution in partnership with Engineering, Design, Data Science, Content and Compliance/Legal
• Drive alignment and clear decision-making across cross-functional stakeholders, even amid ambiguity
• Communicate strategy, progress and results clearly to senior leadership
• Champion accuracy, reliability and customer trust in every product decision
• Stay current on emerging AI and product trends and identify opportunities to apply them to Tax software

Requirements:

• Proven track record leading complex, cross-functional initiatives that span Product Management, Engineering, and GTM teams — translating product requirements into detailed technical specifications that engineering teams can act on with minimal ambiguity
• Skilled at partnering with Product Managers to refine and decompose requirements, and with Engineering leads to assess technical feasibility, surface dependencies, and sequence delivery
• Strong ability to sequence dependencies, communicate clear estimates, and guide teams through pivots while balancing experimentation with strategic investment
• Experience operating in Agile environments, contributing to sprint planning, story refinement, and acceptance criteria definition in close partnership with both PM and engineering
• Strong accountability for end-to-end solution design and delivery, cultivating partnerships across Product, Design, Analytics, Sales, and Customer Success
• Bachelor's degree in an IT-related or Engineering field