Tax Product Manager (UK based role)

Thomson Reuters is a leading provider of compliance software to the tax and accounting profession in the UK, with solutions covering personal tax, corporate tax, accounting, practice management and client collaboration. Our integrated software designed for accountants helps them save time, improve profit margins, and enhance the services they provide. Knowing they have a reliable and trusted platform underpinning their business frees them up to focus on the enhanced services they offer to their clients, providing them with a competitive edge. We have an exciting opportunity for an innovative and collaborative Tax Product Management professional to lead our UK Tax products for Tax and Accounting UK Professionals. We are seeking a self-starter with a passion for building strong products, tackling complex problems, and partnering with a diverse set of Professional Accounting firm customers, both large and small, as well as internal designers, engineers, colleagues and stakeholders. As a key part of the UK Product Management leadership team, the Tax Product Manager, is responsible for the growth and development of the Tax Products in the UK suite. They lead a small tax team, instilling in them the core tenants of Product Management at Thomson Reuters while delivering against their own objectives. This person will work closely with design and engineering to solve customer problems throughout the end-to-end product life cycle. This role will be responsible both for developing a strategy to grow existing Tax products, and for leading new product development efforts. This person will provide strong leadership to their team, helping to mitigate and resolve setbacks and roadblocks, build and engage a high performing product team, and foster a culture of feedback, experimentation and learning. Please note, this is a 12-month fixed term contract and will be in our UK office (hybrid mode or remote). About the Role As the Tax Product Manager you will: Develop strong product intuition by interpreting and assessing customer problems, business needs and opportunities and offering potential solutions with a moderate level of guidance and direction. Build world class capabilities and products by assisting in the creation a vision for the Tax products and maintaining the tax products roadmap and partnering closely with dev teams and UX to execute the roadmap and deliver efficiently. This includes serving as the customer voice for the engineering teams, prioritizing the product backlog based on customer and business value, and using metrics to monitor and measure progress. Demonstrate leadership by taking extreme ownership for a product / product line, its performance and reliability, and delighting our clients with a positive experience. You will show that you can learn from your experiences, recover from setbacks, and effectively evangelize the product vision to colleagues. Build, manage and lead a world class team of product managers. You will lead a team to define and deliver significant strategic initiatives. In order to be successful in achieving these goals, you will be: Curious & Innovative, starting with an obsession for our customers’ problems and needs and then working closely with customers, partners, and other Thomson Reuters colleagues to solve them in unique ways. Agile, with a strong sense of urgency and a desire to work in a fast-paced dynamic environment to deliver solutions against strict timelines, unafraid of failure. An effective communicator who projects confidence and communicates concisely and clearly to management, peers, customers and partners. About You: You’re a fit for the role of Tax Product Manager if your background includes: Proven Product Management Professional Experience coaching and leading a team is preferred Experience working with technology development in the tax and/or accounting arena preferred University Degree in Business or Computer Science preferred (or equivalent experience) 1-2 years of Product Management background What’s in it for you? At Thomson Reuters, our people are our greatest assets. Here are some of the benefits we offer for your personal and professional growth: COVID-19 Response: Currently the majority of our employees are working within a hybrid environment consisting of in-office and remote work, and following local COVID-19 bylaws and guidelines. This role will be fully remote but there will be times to meet up with the teams in person. Culture: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for equality, diversity and inclusion, flexibility, work-life balance, and more Wellbeing: Comprehensive benefit plans; flexible and supportive benefits for work-life balance: company-wide Mental Health Day Off; Headspace app subscription; retirement, savings, tuition reimbursement, and employee incentive programs; resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing Learning & Development: LinkedIn Learning access; internal Talent Marketplace with opportunities to work on projects cross-company; Ten Thousand Coffees Thomson Reuters café networking Social Impact: Eight employee-driven Business Resource Groups; two paid volunteer days annually; Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) initiatives for local and global impact Purpose Driven Work: We have a superpower that we’ve never talked about with as much pride as we should – we are one of the only companies on the planet that helps its customers pursue justice, truth and transparency. 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