Senior Product Manager

Ashley Hughes-Jefferson Consulting LLC; United States; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Ashley Hughes-Jefferson Consulting LLC is seeking a Senior Product Manager for a 100% remote role focused on professional tax software and cloud-based products. The candidate should be based in the Central or Eastern Time Zones and have extensive experience leading product strategy and roadmap execution in SaaS environments.

The role requires 7+ years of experience, a Bachelor’s degree, and a track record of delivering complex software releases on tight schedules, while balancing innovation with

Qualifications

• 7+ years of relevant professional experience in software product management.

Responsibilities

• Define and own product vision and roadmap priorities.

Skills

Product Management

Cross-Functional Leadership

Cloud/SaaS

Analytics

Roadmap Ownership

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Tools

Regulatory/Compliance Tools

Tax Software Knowledge

Job description

SOFTWARE PRODUCT MANAGEMENT CAREER OPPORTUNITY

Senior Product Manager

Opportunity Snapshot

LOCATION
100% Remote

TIME ZONE
Central or Eastern Only

EXPERIENCE
7+ Years

EDUCATION
Bachelor’s Degree

This is a 100% remote opportunity; however, candidatesmust currently be based in the Central or Eastern Time Zones.

Please consider this geographic requirement before requesting recruitingconsideration. Relocation assistance and visa sponsorship are notavailable for this opportunity.

Senior Product Manager – Remote Software & SaaS Opportunity

Ashley Hughes-Jefferson Consulting LLC is currently sourcingqualified product management professionals for aSenior Product Manager opportunity supporting professionaltax software and an emerging cloud-based product ecosystem.

This mid-senior-level role will leadproduct strategy, roadmap development, annual regulatory delivery,customer experience improvements, 0-to-1 product innovation, and executionfor mission-critical software used by professional users.

The Senior Product Manager will help balance two important priorities:continuous product innovation and operational reliability.The environment requires software to remain stable and high-performing whilealso responding to regulatory deadlines, evolving customer needs, andopportunities for new cloud-based capabilities.

Candidates should clearly demonstrate experience leading complex softwareproducts, working across engineering and business teams, and taking productinitiatives from strategy through execution.

The experience profile for this Senior Product Manager opportunity includes:

• Software Product Management
• Cloud-Based / SaaS Products
• Complex Software Release Cycles
• Customer Discovery & Product Analytics
• Cross-Functional Product Leadership
• Operational Excellence & Platform Reliability
• Structured Product Prioritization
• Regulatory or Compliance-Driven Product Environments

Product Management Resume Tip:

Your resume should demonstrate more than participation in product teams.Clearly identify products or platforms you owned, roadmap responsibilities,customer problems addressed, cross-functional leadership, product launches,release responsibilities, measurable outcomes, and examples of products orcapabilities you helped take from concept through launch.

PRODUCT LEADERSHIP

The Senior Product Manager will define and own product vision and roadmappriorities spanning both existing platform evolution and new product innovation.

Key responsibilities may include:

• Defining and owning product vision and roadmap priorities
• Balancing innovation with platform stability and reliability
• Identifying opportunities to improve core customer workflows
• Identifying potential new product offerings and capabilities
• Evaluating product opportunities using customer insights, data, and market analysis
• Making structured prioritization decisions based on customer value,business impact, effort, and regulatory constraints

Candidates should be able to demonstrate direct product ownership anddecision-making responsibility within complex software environments.

Annual Tax Season & Regulatory Delivery

This role operates within a professional tax software environment whereregulatory deadlines and annual tax-law changes create fixed deliveryrequirements.

Responsibilities may include:

• Leading planning and execution of annual tax-law updates
• Partnering with compliance and tax-content teams to implement federaland state changes
• Prioritizing product features and enhancements within fixed regulatory deadlines
• Ensuring product readiness before critical tax-season milestones
• Supporting product performance and reliability during peak tax season

Experience with tax technology is valuable, but applicable experience withaccounting, FinTech, regulatory technology, compliance-driven software,or other deadline-sensitive product environmentsmay also be relevant.

Customer Experience & Product Execution

The Senior Product Manager will focus on improving professional-userworkflows while using customer insights and product data to guideprioritization and execution.

Responsibilities may include:

• Improving professional-user workflows across preparation, review,document handling, and electronic processes
• Using customer insights and data to identify measurable product improvements
• Partnering with engineering on performance, architecture, and technical priorities
• Collaborating with support, sales, and go-to-market teams
• Communicating product priorities and trade-offs to stakeholders and leadership
• Balancing customer experience improvements with technical and operational requirements

This position is not limited to maintaining or enhancing an establishedsoftware platform.

The Senior Product Manager will also identify and help buildnew product capabilities from ideation through launch.

The product-development lifecycle may include:

Responsibilities may include:

• Identifying new product opportunities through customer discovery,product data, and market trends
• Validating customer problems and potential product solutions
• Defining and launching minimum viable products
• Testing product assumptions through experiments and customer feedback
• Iterating based on early product adoption and market response
• Helping move successful capabilities toward early scale

Candidates with demonstrated 0-to-1 product-development experience shouldmake those accomplishments clearly visible on their resume.

AI, Automation & Modern Cloud Capabilities

The role may also explore opportunities to applyartificial intelligence, automation, and modern cloud capabilitiesto professional software products and workflows.

Candidates with relevant experience should accurately describe theirprofessional involvement with AI-enabled products, automation, cloudplatforms, or related technology initiatives.

Direct AI product-management experience is not identified as a standaloneminimum qualification; however, experience evaluating and developingemerging product capabilities may strengthen a candidate’s alignmentwith the innovation responsibilities of the role.

Senior Product Manager Qualifications

• Experience: 7+ years of relevant professional experience
• Substantial product management experience within software environments
• Experience building or scaling cloud-based and/or SaaS products
• Experience managing complex software release cycles under tight deadlines
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities
• Ability to balance product innovation with operational excellence
• Excellent communication and cross-functional leadership skills
• Strong attention to detail and execution
• Demonstrated ability to prioritize using structured decision-making frameworks
• Ability to balance customer value, business impact, implementation effort,and regulatory constraints

Relevant Industry Experience

Experience with products or platforms involving one or more of the followingmay strengthen candidate alignment:

• Tax technology
• Accounting software
• FinTech
• Compliance-driven products
• Professional software
• SaaS platforms
• Cloud-based software products

Who May Be a Strong Match?

This opportunity may be particularly relevant for experienced softwareproduct leaders who have managed established products while also buildingnew capabilities.

A potentially aligned candidate may demonstrate experience across severalof the following areas:

• Senior software product management
• Product strategy and roadmap ownership
• SaaS or cloud-based product development
• MVP development and product launches
• Product analytics and data-driven decision-making
• Complex software release management
• Regulatory or compliance-driven products
• Tax, accounting, FinTech, or related professional software
• Engineering collaboration
• Cross-functional leadership
• Operationally critical software platforms
• AI, automation, or modern cloud product capabilities

Job titles alone do not determine candidate qualification. The relevance,depth, scope, and professional context of a candidate’s product-managementexperience may be evaluated during the recruiting process.

This Senior Product Manager opportunity has been identified as100% remote.

However, candidate location is restricted to professionals who arebased in the Central or Eastern Time Zones.

Relocation assistance is not available.

Visa sponsorship is not available.

Candidates should confirm that they meet the applicable location andwork-authorization requirements before requesting recruiting consideration.

Before Requesting Recruiting Consideration

Please have an updated professional resume available.

For this opportunity, your resume should clearly identify applicableprofessional experience involving areas such as:

• Software product management
• Product strategy and roadmap ownership
• Cloud-based and/or SaaS products
• Product launches and MVP development
• Customer discovery and product analytics
• Complex release cycles
• Cross-functional engineering leadership
• Regulatory or compliance-driven software
• Tax, accounting, FinTech, or related professional software, if applicable
• AI, automation, or modern cloud capabilities, if applicable

Candidates should also be prepared to confirm that they are currentlybased in the Central or Eastern Time Zone.

Please provide accurate information regarding your professional background,education, product responsibilities, location, and qualifications throughoutthe recruiting process.