Product Director

About Karbon

Karbon is the global leader in AI-powered practice management software for accounting firms. We provide an award-winning cloud platform that helps tens of thousands of accounting professionals work more efficiently and collaboratively every day. With customers in 40 countries we have grown into a globally distributed team across the US Australia New Zealand Canada the United Kingdom and the Philippines. We are well-funded ranked #1 on G2 growing rapidly and have a people-first culture that is recognized with Great Place To Work certification and on Fortune magazines Best Small Workplaces List.

About the Role

Youll lead a team of product managers and translate company strategy into clear priorities guide investment and roadmap decisions and ensure teams deliver meaningful customer and business outcomes. Working closely with engineering and design youll drive products from discovery through execution balancing customer needs business impact and technical realities.

As AI continues to reshape the accounting industry youll help identify where Karbon can create the most value through AI automation and platform capabilities. Youll play a key role in strengthening Karbons competitive position while ensuring investments are aligned to customer needs and company strategy.

Youll also be responsible for developing product talent coaching product managers and raising the quality of product thinking and execution across your teams.

Success in this role requires strong product judgment: the ability to make clear prioritisation decisions navigate trade-offs and focus teams on the opportunities that will have the greatest impact for customers and the business.

What Youll Do

• Own portfolio direction and roadmap execution
• Guide your teams in identifying the highest-impact opportunities making effective trade-offs and delivering outcomes that strengthen Karbons long-term position.
• Conduct deep customer research and market analysis to identify where Karbon should invest and where it shouldnt
• Translate customer insights and product signals into clear strategy roadmap sequencing and launch decisions
• Work directly with Engineering and Design throughout the full product lifecycle: Opportunity Build Launch Learn Outcome
• Use AI as your primary product workbench. Prototype ideas stress-test workflows pressure-test assumptions before committing resources.
• Define and monitor group-level metrics (adoption usage retention expansion business impact) and hold yourself accountable for outcomes not just shipping
• Develop PMs on your team. Strengthen their judgment decision-making and ownership of outcomes.
• Align Sales CS Support and Finance on pillar strategy and launches
• Partner with Engineering and Design leadership to ensure quality and pace

Who You Are

• 8 years of product management experience with a proven track record owning strategic product areas at director or senior level
• Provent leadership experience you invest in developing PMs helping them strengthen their judgment execution and leadership through regular coaching and constructive feedback
• Deep experience shipping high-impact products end-to-end and holding yourself accountable for real customer and business outcomes
• Strong product judgment. You make clear tradeoffs under pressure. You know what to build and what to kill.
• Hands-on mindset. You draft strategy shape solutions stress-test workflows. You dont delegate thinking.
• AI fluency. You use AI daily in your work: prototyping ideating analyzing making faster decisions
• Customer obsession grounded in behavior. You form strong intuitions about how customers actually work not what we think they want
• You invest in developing PMs helping them strengthen their judgment execution and leadership through regular coaching and constructive feedback
• Data-driven mindset with a focus on measuring real product performance and customer impact
• Bias toward speed and quality. You move fast without sacrificing judgment.
• Comfort with ambiguity and change. Your pillars will evolve. You can set strategy knowing the business will shift.

Bonus Points If

• Experience with accounting professional services or tax industry
• You understand agentic workflows or have built AI-native products
• Experience building products using LLM/AI technologies from concept through go-to-market

Why Work at Karbon

• Gain global experience across USA New Zealand UK and Canada
• 4 weeks annual leave plus 5 extra Karbon Days off a year
• Flexible working environment
• Work with (and learn from) an experienced high-performing team
• Be part of a fast-growing company that firmly believes in promoting high performers from within
• A collaborative team-oriented culture that embraces diversity invests in development and provides consistent feedback
• Generous parental leave

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Karbon embraces diversity and inclusion aligning with our values as a business. Research has shown that women and underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single criteria. If youve made it this far in the job description but your past experience doesnt perfectly align we do encourage you to still apply. You could still be the right person for the role!

We recruit and reward people based on capability and performance. We dont discriminate based on race gender sexual orientation gender identity or expression lifestyle age educational background national origin religion physical or cognitive ability and other diversity dimensions that may hinder inclusion in the organization.

Generally if you are a good person we want to talk to you.

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