Product Manager: Accounting SME for Public Sector Tech

Nava Public Benefit Corp.; Minneota (MN); Remote; USD 98,000 - 153,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

401(k) match

Flexible work

Parental leave

Time off

Job summary

Nava Public Benefit Corp. is seeking a Product Manager (Accounting SME and Tech Solutions Advisor) to rapidly validate product strategies and user needs for government contracts, bridging state government accounting practices with modern tech solutions.

You’ll work with stakeholders, design, and engineering to plan and scope work. You will lead with accounting expertise, coordinate cross-functional teams, and drive process improvements, integrations, and training.

Qualifications

• At least three (3) years of experience as a Product Manager of a cross-functional team.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in accounting.
• Strong understanding of financial measurement tools and accounting principles.
• Experience with budgeting, financial reporting, and compliance with state government regulations.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• Experience running and/or shipping consumer web applications.
• Ability to generate very strong product plans and build buy-in across the team, our government partners, and other contractors.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills for technical, user experience, and project management trade-offs; enthusiastic communicator.
• Strong bias towards action; ability to step up into team gaps and ambiguous situations to structure the team’s action plan.
• Ability to execute with incomplete information; great product instincts and an ability to create order from divergent needs.
• Ability to define a product objective and logically reverse engineer the path and communications to achieve the objective.
• Ability to identify market trends and shifts that will affect product direction and update plans based on future expectations.
• An adaptive, empathetic, collaborative, and positive mindset

Responsibilities

• Provide expert knowledge and insights in accounting practices.
• Lead in the integration of accounting software solutions to improve process efficiency and data accuracy.
• Collaborate with legal, public policy, business, and operations to ensure accuracy and relevance of accounting processes.
• Define the vision, goals, and measures of success for the products and services you manage.
• Work with designers, business analysts, and technical leads to discover and synthesize market research, user needs, business requirements, and technical approaches.
• Define the direction, scope, and priority of projects, from high-level initiatives to specific features, user stories, and business metrics.
• Proactively socialize, iterate on, and build buy-in for product initiatives with the team, government partners, and other contractors.
• Measure product progress toward business goals or user needs and translate data insights into action.

Skills

Product management

Accounting

Stakeholder leadership

Communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Public sector

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Accounting software

System integrations

Job description

Nava Public Benefit Corp. is seeking a Product Manager (Accounting SME and Tech Solutions Advisor) to rapidly validate product strategies and user needs for government contracts, bridging state government accounting practices with modern tech solutions.

You’ll work with stakeholders, design, and engineering to plan and scope work. You will lead with accounting expertise, coordinate cross-functional teams, and drive process improvements, integrations, and training.