Why Ryan?
Hybrid Work Options
Award-Winning Culture
Generous Personal Time Off (PTO) Benefits
14-Weeks of 100% Paid Leave for New Parents (Adoption Included)
Monthly Gym Membership Reimbursement OR Gym Equipment Reimbursement
Benefits Eligibility Effective Day One
401K with Employer Match
Tuition Reimbursement After One Year of Service
Fertility Assistance Program
Four-Week Company-Paid Sabbatical Eligibility After Five Years of Service
Ryan, LLC is an award-winning global tax firm that liberates its clients from the burden of being overtaxed. By freeing our clients’ capital, we make it possible for them to invest, grow, and thrive – concentrating on what they do best. For years, Ryan has been delivering unparalleled value to many of the world’s most respected companies in the form of exceptional services, as well as cutting edge software solutions. In 2021, Ryan was named as One of the Best Places to Work by Glassdoor. Ryan has also been named one of the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For the past five years in a row.
We are on a mission to become the world’s trusted platform for tax, seamlessly delivering the right combination of software and expertise to become an intuitive extension of our clients’ tax capability.
The Vice President, Product Management is responsible for assisting with delivering a class-defining experience for the public facing look, feel and navigation for Ryan. They work as part of a team that defines, creates and lead the implementation and execution of innovative strategies that deliver a consistent and trusted experience for Ryan clients.
This role is perfect for a leader who has an ownership mentality for driving impact, pursues data-informed insights, focuses on customer empathy and product craft, and loves to learn and execute. To be successful in this role, you need to have a bias for action, and be comfortable guiding decision-making based on a combination of hard data and incomplete or ambiguous information. You understand how to balance long-term bets with quick wins.
Duties and responsibilities, as they align to Ryan’s Key Results
- Directly supervise a team of product managers as their reporting manager.
- Create a positive team member experience.
- Contribute to the overall growth of the product management team’s capabilities, systems, processes working in conjunction with the Head of Product and peers on Product management team
- Acts as a product subject matter expert for sales and sales support
- Be responsible for direct interaction with business stakeholders, including, but not limited to, eliciting comprehensive business requirements, use cases, and recommending appropriate solutions.
- Collaborate with User experience team to design user interface and user flows
- Ensure stakeholder satisfaction. Test success by leading focus groups and assembling a client advisory committee.
- Represent the product in the marketplace as the client-facing champion for the application and its capabilities.
- Responsible for the development and execution of product strategy and roadmaps for specific tax domain working in conjunction with Head of Product, business stakeholders and product team
- Build hypotheses and MVP scope to meet product goals and KPIs
- Analyze product and business data to create data-driven insights and drive iterative development
- Oversee efficient execution of product specifications including the user stories, requirements and functional specifications for development.
- Work with development team to estimate work and execute against plan and own and maintain an organized product backlog.
- Work with Development, QA, and Production Support teams to communicate, verify, and test the desired functionality changes.
- Facilitate cross-functional design sessions.
- Set development priorities to ensure the product delivers the maximum business value with the minimum time to market.
- Be responsible for overall product quality
Education and Experience:
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent required. Minimum of 10 years of direct work experience in a product management capacity. Experience breaking problems down into component parts, analyzing data and creating hypotheses and MVPs against stated goals. Experience working across agile-based Software Development Lifecycle and processes.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Anticipates and proactively delivers expected results for executive leadership team
- Effectively solves problems
- Streamlines and improves processes
- Demonstrates initiative and provides complete follow-through on areas of responsibility
- Advanced written, visual and verbal communication skills
- Superior attention to detail
- Demonstrates accuracy and thoroughness
- Sense of urgency
- Demonstrates willingness to be flexible and adaptable to changing priorities
- Thrives working both independently and in a team-based environment
- Strong multitasking and organizational skills
Computer Skills:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must have advanced skills in Microsoft® Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Internet navigation and research.
Certificates and Licenses:
Valid driver’s license required.
Supervisory Responsibilities:
Requires supervisory responsibilities, including managing projects, training employees, assigning work, and making sound business decisions while representing the Firm.
Work Environment:
- Standard indoor working environment.
- Occasional long periods of sitting while working at computer.
- Must be able to lift, carry, push, or pull up to 30 lbs.
- Position requires regular interaction with employees at all levels of the Firm, clients, and interface with external vendors as necessary.
Travel:
Independent travel requirement: 25%.
Compensation Pay Transparency:
- For certain California based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $178,000.00 - $264,000.00
- For other California based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $178,000.00 - $264,000.00
- For Colorado based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $178,000.00 - $264,000.00
- For Illinois based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $178,000.00 - $264,000.00
- For other Illinois based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $178,000.00 - $264,000.00
- For Maryland based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $178,000.00 - $264,000.00
- For Massachusetts based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $178,000.00 - $264,000.00
- For other Massachusetts based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $178,000.00 - $264,000.00
- For New Jersey based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $178,000.00 - $264,000.00
- For New York based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $178,000.00 - $264,000.00
- For other New York based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $178,000.00 - $264,000.00
- For Washington based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $178,000.00 - $264,000.00
- The Firm makes offers based on many factors, including qualifications and experience. Roles may be eligible for incentive compensation.
Equal Opportunity Employer: disability/veteran
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