As a Lead Product Manager for Wolters Kluwer, you’ll own a strategically critical product area within the Professional Audit workflow, part of a critical SaaS platform within the CCH Tax & Accounting portfolio. You are accountable for defining and executing the multi‑year strategy, managing a portfolio of investments, and ensuring sustained customer and business impact across your area.
This role operates at the intersection of strategy, technology, and outcomes. You will orchestrate multiple empowered product teams, align senior cross‑functional leaders, and raise the bar on product practices, technical decision‑making, and outcome rigor across your domain. You combine strong technical judgment with growing commercial ownership, helping shape business cases, inform pricing and packaging decisions, and drive adoption, retention, and expansion outcomes.
Essential Duties and responsibilities
Product Ownership & Strategy
- Incubate, sponsor, and scale new product offerings across the product area, from early 0‑1 exploration through adoption, expansion, and long‑term durability.
- Own and evolve the roadmap, long-term vision, and priorities for your team’s focus area.
- Establish clear definitions of success and OKRs, ensuring initiatives deliver sustained customer value and measurable business and customer outcomes.
- Make portfolio-level tradeoffs across customer value, technical sustainability, and commercial impact, balancing speed, quality, and long-term strategic value.
Execution & Delivery
- Translate strategy into clear problem statements, success metrics, stage‑gates, and delivery plans.
- Ensure consistent launch and change‑management practices across teams.
- Run area‑level planning, aligning capacity with Engineering leadership and managing dependencies across teams.
- Manage multiple simultaneous workstreams, deadlines and navigating competing priorities while staying focused on what drives the greatest impact.
- Drive operational excellence by feeding quality, incident learnings, and customer impact back into roadmap decisions.
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
- Own segmentation and value propositions for your product area; support market sizing for major initiatives.
- 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.
- Own the commercial impact plan for your area, validating value realization with GTM partners.
- 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 solutions.
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.
Our Interview PracticesTo 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.
Skills Required
- Own multi-year product strategy, roadmap, and portfolio-level tradeoffs for a SaaS product area.
- Lead and orchestrate multiple product teams and align senior cross-functional stakeholders.
- Incubate and scale products from discovery (0-1) through adoption and expansion.
- Define OKRs, success metrics, stage-gates, and run data-informed discovery and decision-making.
- Partner closely with Engineering and Design; exercise strong technical judgment on architecture and technical decisions.
- Commercial ownership including business cases, pricing/packaging input, and driving adoption, retention, and expansion.
- Experience identifying and delivering responsible AI-enabled product capabilities.
- Manage operational excellence: launch/change management, incident learnings, and quality feedback into roadmap.
- Communicate effectively with leadership and GTM teams; serve as trusted advisor on complex initiatives.
Wolters Kluwer Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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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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What We Do
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).
