Lead Technology Product Manager

As a Lead Product Manager for Wolters Kluwer, you’ll own a strategically critical product area within the Professional Audit workflow, part of a critical SaaS platform within the CCH Tax & Accounting portfolio. You are accountable for defining and executing the multi‑year strategy, managing a portfolio of investments, and ensuring sustained customer and business impact across your area.

This role operates at the intersection of strategy, technology, and outcomes. You will orchestrate multiple empowered product teams, align senior cross‑functional leaders, and raise the bar on product practices, technical decision‑making, and outcome rigor across your domain. You combine strong technical judgment with growing commercial ownership, helping shape business cases, inform pricing and packaging decisions, and drive adoption, retention, and expansion outcomes.

Essential Duties and responsibilities

Product Ownership & Strategy

• Incubate, sponsor, and scale new product offerings across the product area, from early 0‑1 exploration through adoption, expansion, and long‑term durability.
• Own and evolve the roadmap, long-term vision, and priorities for your team’s focus area.
• Establish clear definitions of success and OKRs, ensuring initiatives deliver sustained customer value and measurable business and customer outcomes.
• Make portfolio-level tradeoffs across customer value, technical sustainability, and commercial impact, balancing speed, quality, and long-term strategic value.

Execution & Delivery

• Translate strategy into clear problem statements, success metrics, stage‑gates, and delivery plans.
• Ensure consistent launch and change‑management practices across teams.
• Run area‑level planning, aligning capacity with Engineering leadership and managing dependencies across teams.
• Manage multiple simultaneous workstreams, deadlines and navigating competing priorities while staying focused on what drives the greatest impact.
• Drive operational excellence by feeding quality, incident learnings, and customer impact back into roadmap decisions.

Discovery & Decision-Making

• Deeply understand product performance through quantitative metrics and qualitative insights.
• Partner closely with design and research to deeply understand user problems, test assumptions early, and iterate toward elegant solutions
• Own segmentation and value propositions for your product area; support market sizing for major initiatives.
• Identify leading indicators, diagnose emerging issues, and guide decisions through data-informed analysis.

Business & Cross-Functional Leadership

• Apply a strong business mindset to decisions, understanding how Wolters Kluwer drives growth and revenue objectives.
• Partner with Go-To-Market stakeholders to enable successful outcomes and customer adoption. 
• Own the commercial impact plan for your area, validating value realization with GTM partners.
• Communicate effectively with leadership and cross-function teams, articulating priorities, tradeoffs, risks, and impact.
• Serve as a trusted advisor on complex initiatives, guiding teams towards best practices and innovative solutions.

AI-First Product Development

• Identify and champion opportunities where AI can unlock improvements in user experience and efficiency, or workflow quality.
• Partner with Engineering to design and deliver responsible, effective, AI-enabled capabilities.
• Maintain a high level of curiosity about emerging AI technologies and how they can be applied to audit.

Other Duties

Performs other duties assigned by supervisor.

Our Interview Practices

To maintain a fair and genuine hiring process, we kindly ask that all candidates participate in interviews without the assistance of AI tools or external prompts. Our interview process is designed to assess your individual skills, experiences, and communication style. We value authenticity and want to ensure we’re getting to know you—not a digital assistant. To help maintain this integrity, we ask to remove virtual backgrounds and include in-person interviews in our hiring process. Please note that use of AI-generated responses or third-party support during interviews will be grounds for disqualification from the recruitment process.

Applicants may be required to appear onsite at a Wolters Kluwer office as part of the recruitment process.

Compensation:

Compensation range listed is based on primary location of the position.  Actual base salary offer is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skills, experience and actual hiring location. Your recruiter can share more information about the specific offer for the job location during the hiring process. 

Additional Information:

Wolters Kluwer offers a wide variety of competitive benefits and programs to help meet your needs and balance your work and personal life, including but not limited to: Medical, Dental, & Vision Plans, 401(k), FSA/HSA, Commuter Benefits, Tuition Assistance Plan, Vacation and Sick Time, and Paid Parental Leave. Full details of our benefits are available upon request.