Product Owner

The annual salary for this position is $120,000-$164,000

Required Skills & Experience

• 10+ years of experience in product management or ownership
• 5+ years of experience as a product manager in SaaS (preferably within accounting software)
• Experience managing product owners and business analysts
• Experience managing roadmaps, performing market analysis and driving prioritization
• Exceptional collaboration and communication skills with internal teams and external stakeholders
• Bachelor's degree (accounting, finance, business, or related field)

Job Description

An employer in Lawrenceville, GA is looking for a Lead Product Manager. As a strategic leader, you will drive roadmap recommendations by identifying opportunities and initiatives, supported by deep market, prospect, and customer analysis to validate product potential. You will lead roadmap execution through epic creation, prioritization, and tracking, while serving as a key liaison to Sales, Customer Success, and Support to capture prospect and customer needs, communicate roadmap priorities, and share release information. Partnering with Marketing, you will ensure early awareness of new capabilities and deliver clear messaging on value propositions and benefits. In addition, you will provide strategic direction and governance for roadmap execution, enabling Product Owners to manage epic creation, prioritization, and delivery, while coaching them to balance trade-offs and stakeholder needs. Your role includes owning communication and alignment within the product organization by setting expectations, establishing KPIs, driving accountability, and ensuring Product Owners understand priorities and strategic direction. You will guide Product Owners in managing escalations and customer conversations, intervening on critical issues and modeling executive-level communication and decision-making. Furthermore, you will establish a product risk-management framework and mentor Product Owners to proactively identify, escalate, and mitigate risks across workstreams. Supporting Sales in new business and retention conversations by sharing roadmap context and product value will also be part of your responsibilities. Finally, you will manage by the P&L to ensure financial discipline in decision-making, prioritization, and trade-offs, and, when needed, support requirements definition through Design Sprints or discovery and market research activities.