About Karbon
Karbon is the global leader in AI-powered practice management software for accounting firms. We provide an award-winning cloud platform that helps tens of thousands of accounting professionals work more efficiently and collaboratively every day. With customers in 40 countries, we have grown into a globally distributed team across the US, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the Philippines. We are well-funded, ranked #1 on G2, growing rapidly, and have a people-first culture that is recognized with Great Place To Work® certification and on Fortune magazine's Best Small Workplaces™ List.
About the Role
You'll lead a team of product managers and translate company strategy into clear priorities, guide investment and roadmap decisions, and ensure teams deliver meaningful customer and business outcomes. Working closely with engineering and design, you'll drive products from discovery through execution, balancing customer needs, business impact, and technical realities.
As AI continues to reshape the accounting industry, you'll help identify where Karbon can create the most value through AI, automation, and platform capabilities. You'll play a key role in strengthening Karbon's competitive position while ensuring investments are aligned to customer needs and company strategy.
You'll also be responsible for developing product talent, coaching product managers, and raising the quality of product thinking and execution across your teams.
Success in this role requires strong product judgment: the ability to make clear prioritisation decisions, navigate trade-offs, and focus teams on the opportunities that will have the greatest impact for customers and the business.
What You'll Do
- Own portfolio direction and roadmap execution
- Guide your teams in identifying the highest-impact opportunities, making effective trade-offs, and delivering outcomes that strengthen Karbon's long-term position.
- Conduct deep customer research and market analysis to identify where Karbon should invest and where it shouldn't
- Translate customer insights and product signals into clear strategy, roadmap sequencing, and launch decisions
- Work directly with Engineering and Design throughout the full product lifecycle: Opportunity → Build → Launch → Learn → Outcome
- Use AI as your primary product workbench. Prototype ideas, stress-test workflows, pressure-test assumptions before committing resources.
- Define and monitor group-level metrics (adoption, usage, retention, expansion, business impact) and hold yourself accountable for outcomes, not just shipping
- Develop PMs on your team. Strengthen their judgment, decision-making, and ownership of outcomes.
- Align Sales, CS, Support, and Finance on pillar strategy and launches
- Partner with Engineering and Design leadership to ensure quality and pace
Who You Are
- 8+ years of product management experience with a proven track record owning strategic product areas at director or senior level
- Provent leadership experience, you invest in developing PMs, helping them strengthen their judgment, execution, and leadership through regular coaching and constructive feedback
- Deep experience shipping high-impact products end-to-end and holding yourself accountable for real customer and business outcomes
- Strong product judgment. You make clear tradeoffs under pressure. You know what to build and what to kill.
- Hands-on mindset. You draft strategy, shape solutions, stress-test workflows. You don't delegate thinking.
- AI fluency. You use AI daily in your work: prototyping, ideating, analyzing, making faster decisions
- Customer obsession grounded in behavior. You form strong intuitions about how customers actually work, not what we think they want
- You invest in developing PMs, helping them strengthen their judgment, execution, and leadership through regular coaching and constructive feedback
- Data-driven mindset with a focus on measuring real product performance and customer impact
- Bias toward speed and quality. You move fast without sacrificing judgment.
- Comfort with ambiguity and change. Your pillars will evolve. You can set strategy knowing the business will shift.
Bonus Points If
- Experience with accounting, professional services, or tax industry
- You understand agentic workflows or have built AI-native products
- Experience building products using LLM/AI technologies from concept through go-to-market
- Gain global experience across USA, New Zealand, UK, and Canada
- 4 weeks annual leave plus 5 extra "Karbon Days" off a year
- Flexible working environment
- Work with (and learn from) an experienced, high-performing team
- Be part of a fast-growing company that firmly believes in promoting high performers from within
- A collaborative, team-oriented culture that embraces diversity, invests in development, and provides consistent feedback
- Generous parental leave
Karbon embraces diversity and inclusion, aligning with our values as a business. Research has shown that women and underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single criteria. If you've made it this far in the job description but your past experience doesn't perfectly align, we do encourage you to still apply. You could still be the right person for the role!
We recruit and reward people based on capability and performance. We don’t discriminate based on race, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, lifestyle, age, educational background, national origin, religion, physical or cognitive ability, and other diversity dimensions that may hinder inclusion in the organization.
Generally, if you are a good person, we want to talk to you. 😛
If there are any adjustments or accommodations that we can make to assist you during the recruitment process, and your journey at Karbon, contact us at [email protected] for a confidential discussion.
At this time, we request that agency referrals are not submitted for this position. We appreciate your understanding and encourage direct applications from interested candidates. Thank you!
Skills Required
- 8+ years of product management experience with proven strategic ownership at director or senior level
- Proven leadership developing and coaching product managers
- Deep experience shipping high-impact products end-to-end and owning outcomes
- Strong product judgment with ability to prioritise and make trade-offs under pressure
- Hands-on mindset: draft strategy, shape solutions, stress-test workflows
- AI fluency; use AI/LLMs daily for prototyping, ideation, and decision-making
- Customer obsession grounded in observed behaviors and deep customer research
- Data-driven mindset focused on measuring product performance and business impact
- Ability to align Sales, CS, Support, and Finance on strategy and launches
- Comfort with ambiguity, change, and evolving pillars
- Experience with accounting, professional services, or tax industry
- Experience building AI-native products or products using LLM/AI technologies
Karbon Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Karbon and has not been reviewed or approved by Karbon.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Compensation is described as fair and competitive, with performance-based and globally benchmarked pay. Clear salary ranges appear in postings for several roles, supporting transparency across functions and locations.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time away benefits span flexible PTO or substantial annual leave that increases with tenure. Additional options include wellness days, a birthday day, and the ability to buy or sell leave.
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Parental & Family Support — Support includes generous parental leave and enhanced family leave and pay. Special leave entitlements are available for those with dependents.
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What We Do
Karbon provides a truly collaborative platform for accounting firms to manage workflows, communicate with teams and deliver exceptional client work.
