Vice President, Product Management

Location: Woodcliff Lake

Why Ryan?

• Hybrid Work Options
• Award-Winning Culture
• Generous Personal Time Off (PTO) Benefits
• 14-Weeks of 100% Paid Leave for New Parents (Adoption Included)
• Monthly Gym Membership Reimbursement OR Gym Equipment Reimbursement
• Benefits Eligibility Effective Day One
• 401K with Employer Match
• Tuition Reimbursement After One Year of Service
• Fertility Assistance Program
• Four-Week Company-Paid Sabbatical Eligibility After Five Years of Service

Ryan, LLC is an award-winning global tax firm that liberates its clients from the burden of being overtaxed. By freeing our clients' capital, we make it possible for them to invest, grow, and thrive - concentrating on what they do best. For years, Ryan has been delivering unparalleled value to many of the world's most respected companies in the form of exceptional services, as well as cutting edge software solutions.

In 2021, Ryan was named as One of the Best Places to Work by Glassdoor. Ryan has also been named one of the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For the past five years in a row.

We are on a mission to become the world's trusted platform for tax, seamlessly delivering the right combination of software and expertise to become an intuitive extension of our clients' tax capability.

The Vice President, Product Management is responsible for assisting with delivering a class-defining experience for the public facing look, feel and navigation for Ryan. They work as part of a team that defines, creates and lead the implementation and execution of innovative strategies that deliver a consistent and trusted experience for Ryan clients.

This role is perfect for a leader who has an ownership mentality for driving impact, pursues data-informed insights, focuses on customer empathy and product craft, and loves to learn and execute. To be successful in this role, you need to have a bias for action, and be comfortable guiding decision-making based on a combination of hard data and incomplete or ambiguous information.

You understand how to balance long-term bets with quick wins.

Duties and responsibilities, as they align to Ryan's Key Results

• Directly supervise a team of product managers as their reporting manager.
• Create a positive team member experience.
• Contribute to the overall growth of the product management team's capabilities, systems, processes working in conjunction with the Head of Product and peers on Product management team
• Acts as a product subject matter expert for sales and sales support
• Be responsible for direct interaction with business stakeholders, including, but not limited to, eliciting comprehensive business requirements, use cases, and recommending appropriate solutions.
• Collaborate with User experience team to design user interface and user flows
• Ensure stakeholder satisfaction. Test success by leading focus groups and assembling a client advisory committee.
• Represent the product in the marketplace as the client-facing champion for the application and its capabilities.
• Responsible for the development and execution of product strategy and roadmaps for specific tax domain working in conjunction with Head of Product, business stakeholders and product team
• Build hypotheses and MVP scope to meet product goals and KPIs
• Analyze product and business data to create data-driven insights and drive iterative development
• Oversee efficient execution of product specifications including the user stories, requirements and functional specifications for development.
• Work with development team to estimate work and execute against plan and own and maintain an organized product backlog.
• Work with Development, QA, and Production Support teams to communicate, verify, and test the desired functionality changes.
• Facilitate cross-functional design sessions.
• Set development priorities to ensure the product delivers the maximum business value with the minimum time to market.
• Be responsible for overall product quality

Education and Experience:

Bachelor's degree or equivalent required. Minimum of 10 years of direct work experience in a product management capacity. Experience breaking problems down into component parts, analyzing data and creating hypotheses and MVPs against stated goals. Experience…