Strategic Product Manager, Audit Tech & Growth

Plante Moran; Columbus (OH); On-site; USD 125,000 - 206,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Disability insurance

Life insurance

401(k) plan

Flexible time off

Job summary

Plante Moran is seeking a strategic, outcome-driven Product Manager to shape technology-enabled audit delivery by owning one or more Audit products. Define vision, guide roadmap priorities, and partner across Assurance, technology, data, UX, platform, and vendor teams to translate practitioner needs into scalable solutions.

The role requires 5+ years in product management within audit tech or related environments, with strong customer discovery and data-driven decision-making capabilities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Technology, Accounting, Information Systems, or related field.
• 5+ years product management experience, preferably in audit technology, accounting software, or workflow-intensive software environments.
• Ability to develop product strategy, own roadmaps, manage end-to-end lifecycle.
• Strong customer discovery and user-centered design capabilities.
• Data-driven decision-making with analytics, KPIs, and experimentation.
• Excellent executive communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Familiarity with agile, lean, and modern product operating models.

Responsibilities

• Define and champion a clear product vision and strategy aligned with Assurance business goals, audit quality priorities, and practitioner needs.
• Own and communicate the product roadmap, prioritizing initiatives based on customer impact, business value, strategic alignment, feasibility, and measurable outcomes.
• Lead customer discovery with audit partners, engagement teams, quality leaders, methodology stakeholders, and operations teams to identify pain points and opportunities.
• Monitor market trends across audit technology, accounting software, AI, analytics, automation, and adjacent industries; use KPIs and experiments to guide decisions.
• Partner with engineering, data, UX, platform, vendor, and business teams to deliver cohesive, scalable product solutions.
• Create clarity across stakeholders and delivery teams regarding priorities, trade-offs, ownership, success measures, and outcome accountability.
• Champion and mature modern product management practices, including discovery, roadmap management, prioritization, experimentation, adoption planning, and value measurement.

Skills

Product strategy

Roadmap management

Customer discovery

Data-driven decisions

Executive communication

Stakeholder management

Agile methods

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business/Tech/Accounting/IS

MBA or CPA a plus

Job description

Plante Moran is seeking a strategic, outcome-driven Product Manager to shape technology-enabled audit delivery by owning one or more Audit products. Define vision, guide roadmap priorities, and partner across Assurance, technology, data, UX, platform, and vendor teams to translate practitioner needs into scalable solutions.

The role requires 5+ years in product management within audit tech or related environments, with strong customer discovery and data-driven decision-making capabilities.