Basic Function
As a Lead Product Manager for Wolters Kluwer, you’ll own a strategically important component of the Professional Audit workflow, a critical SaaS platform within the CCH Tax & Accounting portfolio. You won’t just define features; you’ll be accountable for driving the product success end-to-end.
This role is for someone who thrives in a fast-moving environment, adeptly balancing multiple priorities, and making high-impact decisions even when information is incomplete. You’ll operate with a strong sense of ownership, combining product judgment, analytical rigor, and business acumen to drive meaningful outcomes.
Essential Duties and responsibilities
Product Ownership & Strategy
Lead one or more offerings from 0-1 and beyond.
Own the roadmap, long-term vision, and priorities for your team’s focus area.
Establish clear definitions of success and drive initiatives toward measurable business and customer outcomes.
Make informed, timely, thoughtful tradeoffs to balance speed, quality, and long-term strategic value.
Execution & Delivery
Translate strategy into clear requirements, specs, and success metrics.
Collaborate closely with Engineering and Design to ship high-quality product enhancements.
Manage multiple simultaneous workstreams, deadlines and navigating competing priorities while staying focused on what drives the greatest impact.
Discovery & Decision-Making
Deeply understand product performance through quantitative metrics and qualitative insights.
Partner closely with design and research to deeply understand user problems, test assumptions early, and iterate toward elegant solutions
Identify leading indicators, diagnose emerging issues, and guide decisions through data-informed analysis.
Business & Cross-Functional Leadership
Apply a strong business mindset to decisions, understanding how Wolters Kluwer drives growth and revenue objectives.
Partner with Go-To-Market stakeholders to enable successful outcomes and customer adoption.
Communicate effectively with leadership and cross-function teams, articulating priorities, tradeoffs, risks, and impact.
Serve as a trusted advisor on complex initiatives, guiding teams towards best practices and innovative soltions.
AI-First Product Development
Identify and champion opportunities where AI can unlock improvements in user experience and efficiency, or workflow quality.
Partner with Engineering to design and deliver responsible, effective, AI-enabled capabilities.
Maintain a high level of curiosity about emerging AI technologies and how they can be applied to audit.
Other Duties
Performs other duties assigned by supervisor.
Education: Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university, or equivalent experience
Computer Science or Software Engineering Degree preferred.
Experience: 8+ years of Product Management and/or Founder experience, ideally in an early-stage or fast-scaling startup.
Domain experience in Audit, Tax and/or Accounting preferred
Other Knowledge, Skills, Abilities or Certifications:
Demonstrated ability to own and scale a B2B product or product area with business impact.
Strong business acumen and ability to think like an owner.
Deep empathy for users and a passion for understanding real-world workflows and pain points.
Strong intuition for the capabilities and limitations of LLMs and AI in general. This can be from hands-on experience with AI-powered tools, previous work experience, or educational coursework.
Travel requirements
25% domestic, occasional international
Physical Demands
Normal office environment.
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:
$107,500.00 - $188,400.00 USDThis 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.
Wolters Kluwer Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Wolters Kluwer and has not been reviewed or approved by Wolters Kluwer.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time away benefits are positioned as broad, spanning vacation and sick time plus paid holidays and other covered leave types. Paid parental and caregiver leave, bereavement leave, and a volunteer day contribute to a more comprehensive time-off offering.
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Retirement Support — Retirement support is framed as meaningful through access to a 401(k)/retirement plan paired with company matching and additional contribution features in some descriptions. This is reinforced by mentions of profit sharing and other long-term savings-oriented programs.
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Parental & Family Support — Family-oriented support stands out through adoption assistance and paid parental leave provisions. These benefits are described alongside other caregiver supports that extend beyond basic leave categories.
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Wolters Kluwer (www.wolterskluwer.com) is a global leader in information services and solutions for professionals in the health, tax and accounting, risk and compliance, finance and legal sectors. We help our customers make critical decisions every day by providing expert solutions that combine deep domain knowledge with specialized technology and services. Founded in 1836 and headquartered in Alphen aan den Rijn, the Netherlands, the company serves customers in over 180 countries, maintains operations in over 40 countries and employs 18,600 people worldwide. Wolters Kluwer reported 2019 annual revenues of €4.6 billion. Listed on Euronext Amsterdam, Wolters Kluwer shares (WKL) are included in the AEX and Euronext 100 indices. Wolters Kluwer has a sponsored Level 1 American Depositary Receipt program. The ADRs are traded on the over-the-counter market in the U.S. (WTKWY).
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