Lead/Principal Product Manager, Tax Agents

Fieldguide
San Francisco, CA
Remote

Who this role is best for

A natural match if you have AI product management experience in the tax domain and a history of cross-functional collaboration.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with AI product management experience and a background in tax advisory or corporate tax departments
    — “8+ years of product management experience with deep emphasis on AI / agents.”
  • Individuals who have built or worked on tax products for CPA or corporate tax markets
    — “3+ years of tax experience — as a tax practitioner and/or building tax products for the CPA or corporate tax market.”
  • People who thrive in ambiguous environments and are comfortable launching new products
    — “Comfortable with ambiguity which comes with launching new products.”

Things to consider

  • The role may require relocation or travel despite remote flexibility
    — “We’re headquartered in San Francisco, CA”
  • A long-term commitment to a growth-stage startup with high expectations for ownership and impact
    — “We make audit practitioners’ lives easier by eliminating up to 50% of their work”

How to stand out

  • Highlight your ability to shape product roadmaps and deliver zero-to-one features
    — “Shape the product roadmap: work with engineering and product design to quickly define, ship, and deliver impact with new features.”
  • Emphasize your experience in building AI-native solutions for complex workflows
    — “Bring a fresh, AI-native mindset to solving long-standing industry challenges”
  • Showcase your customer-centric approach with examples of defining and scaling features based on feedback
    — “Be extremely customer centric. Understand customer needs, then define and ship zero-to-one features, and enhance and scale one-to-n features.”
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · HighDecision Impact · Company

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What success looks like

  • build enterprise-grade AI agents
  • define and ship new features
  • drive adoption of new features
Typical background
8+ years of product management experience3+ years of tax experience

Skills & requirements

Required

Product ManagementAI / AgentsTax ExperienceCustomer CentricityCross-functional Collaboration

Preferred

Enterprise-grade AI AgentsTax Lifecycle

Stack & domain

AIProduct ManagementCommunicationCustomer CentricTaxAudit

About the role

Original posting from Fieldguide via Ashby

About Us

Fieldguide is establishing a new state of trust for global commerce and capital markets through automating and streamlining the work of advisory, audit, and tax practitioners at the world's largest CPA firms. Put simply, we build software for the people who enable trust between businesses.

We’re headquartered in San Francisco, CA and backed by top investors including Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives, Bessemer Venture Partners, 8VC, Floodgate, Y Combinator, DNX Ventures, Global Founders Capital, Justin Kan, Elad Gil, and more.

We value diversity — in backgrounds and in experiences. We need people from all backgrounds and walks of life to help build the future of audit and advisory. Fieldguide’s team is inclusive, driven, humble and supportive. We are deliberate and self-reflective about the kind of team and culture that we are building, seeking teammates that are not only strong in their own aptitudes but care deeply about supporting each other's growth.

As a growth stage startup employee, you’ll have the opportunity to build out the future of business trust. We make audit practitioners’ lives easier by eliminating up to 50% of their work and giving them better work-life balance. If you share our values and enthusiasm for building a great culture and product, you will find a home at Fieldguide.

About the Role

As Lead PM for Tax Agents, you will play a central role in building the industry's leading agentic tax platform. You'll work hand-in-hand with our engineers and our most strategic customers to design, ship, and continuously improve intelligent agents that transform how top CPA firms and corporate tax departments operate — from provision and compliance to research and review.

What You'll Do

  • Build enterprise-grade AI agents that increase efficiency, quality, and practitioner experience across each stage of the tax lifecycle, from data gathering and workpaper prep to compliance, provision, and review.
  • Bring a fresh, AI-native mindset to solving long-standing industry challenges, while building interactively with tax practitioners at the world's largest firms and corporate tax departments.
  • Be extremely customer centric. Understand customer needs, then define and ship zero-to-one features, and enhance and scale one-to-n features.
  • Shape the product roadmap: work with engineering and product design to quickly define, ship, and deliver impact with new features.
  • Partner with cross-functional teams including customer success, sales, and marketing to gather feedback, communicate product strategy, and drive adoption of new features.
  • We are open to either remote or in-person work arrangements.

Who You Are

  • 8+ years of product management experience with deep emphasis on AI / agents.
  • 3+ years of tax experience — as a tax practitioner and/or building tax products for the CPA or corporate tax market.
  • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills with a track record of cross-functional collaboration.
  • Comfortable with ambiguity which comes with launching new products.
  • Degree in a technical, accounting, or related field, or equivalent professional experience.

More about Fieldguide

Fieldguide is a values-based company. Our values are:

  • Fearless - Inspire & break down seemingly impossible walls.
  • Fast - Launch fast with excellence, iterate to perfection.
  • Lovable - Deliver happiness & 11 star experiences.
  • Owners - Execute & run the business with ownership.
  • Win-win - Create mutual value & earn trust for life.
  • Inclusive - Scale the best ideas with inclusive teams.

Some of our benefits include

  • Competitive compensation packages with meaningful ownership
  • Flexible PTO
  • 401k
  • Wellness benefits, including a bundle of free therapy sessions
  • Technology & Work from Home reimbursement
  • Flexible work schedules

Source: Fieldguide careers (Ashby)

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