Sr. Staff Product Owner, Accounting Systems

What you’ll do

• Possess a mix of technical strength, business strength, and the ability to navigate stakeholders across different business areas and build cross-functional relationships across engineering and business peers to ensure objectives are well defined and clearly understood.
• Navigate working at the strategic level (e.g. generating innovative ideas for growth, establishing KPI’s, leading through change management) and at the tactical level (e.g. analyzing data, solving problems, being a force multiplier).
• Communicate strategy, priorities and consistent product messaging to stakeholders and users.
• Own, prioritize, communicate, and evangelize accounting product roadmap across IT and business stakeholders.
• Engage the business to identify their needs and spot opportunities to build features that increase engagement and drive efficiencies.
• Ensure that product directions balance both the user needs and business goals of driving cost efficiencies, end user productivity, and improve management of income and cash.
• Define product strategy, roadmap, and execution for accounting and finance systems and workflows.
• Partner with Accounting, IT, Engineering, Data, and vendors to identify opportunities for simplification, efficiency, and stronger user experience.
• Apply strong judgment to where AI should be used, ensuring appropriate validation, controls, and human accountability.
• Help modernize accounting operations through process, technology, and enablement improvements.

What we’re looking for

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Engineering or a related field; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Minimum of 15 years product management experience with minimum 4+ years in a product role in a global organization.
• Excellent communication, collaboration and leadership skills, with the ability to navigate cross-cultural and cross-functional environments.
• Nimble to deliver for stakeholders: know how to navigate hurdles and stay focused on great customer experience.
• Significant product ownership or product management experience in accounting systems.
• Strong understanding of accounting processes (Record to Report, Procure to Pay, Order to Cash, Tax) and the ability to connect technology investments to business value.
• Experience driving systems implementations or transformations across multiple accounting process areas, ideally in SaaS environments.
• Demonstrated hands-on use of AI in real business workflows, not just conceptual familiarity.
• Strong judgment in validating AI outputs, managing risk, and maintaining ownership of final decisions and outcomes.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills across technical and non-technical teams.
• Proven ability to operate strategically and tactically, from long-term vision to day-to-day delivery.
• Ability to work through ambiguity, prioritize effectively, and drive measurable outcomes.
• Strong understanding of Agile principles and iterative product development.