Senior Product Manager (mwd)

SKALAR We are building the digital tax advisory of the future

Radically simple. Fully digital. 100% client-focused.

Our ambition is radical: rebuild the 1tn $ tax & accounting industry from the ground up globally in the age of AI. Faster simpler fully transparent for clients and advisors.

While incumbents drown in manual processes opaque communication and weeks-long turnaround times we are shipping a fundamentally new experience: digital proactive AI-native.

We are an experienced founding team of firm operators and entrepreneurs with a track record of scaling businesses past 100m in revenue and 100M exits. We are looking for ambitious people who want to build the leading advisory firm globally with us from day one.

Tasks

• Ship AI Features That Move Numbers: You own AI features end-to-end document recognition classification auto-drafting of tax responses RAG over client files. You build the eval frameworks run the prompt iterations and make the build-vs-buy calls on models and tooling. No hand-offs no excuses.
• Get Obsessed With the User: You run discovery the hard way: interviews shadowing sessions raw feedback synthesis. You go deep enough to tell real problems from assumed ones and become the sharpest voice for the user inside your product line.
• Own the Roadmap Defend Trade-Offs: You own your product lines roadmap end-to-end. Prioritization across business value technical feasibility and regulatory fit. You communicate trade-offs sharply to Engineering Tax Advisory and Founders and you defend your calls with data.
• Hold the Bar on Design: You set a high visual bar and protect it. Figma fluency at the review-and-sketch level: you draft flows critique components push back on anything that doesnt meet the standard. The best tax UX is invisible make ours invisible.
• Run on Data Not Vibes: You define the KPIs that matter Time-to-Filing automation rate client satisfaction advisor efficiency and you steer every iteration from dashboards. Gut feel doesnt ship features here.
• Push the AI Frontier: You dont follow the AI conversation you drive it. Evals prompt iteration cost/quality trade-offs in production. You experiment relentlessly with whats possible and bring the edge into the product.
• Be the Connective Tissue: You sit between Engineering Tax Advisory and Clients and make the org work faster because of it. First-principles thinking

Requirements

• Product Experience: 36 years in product management in B2B SaaS FinTech Finance Tax or a comparably complex environment. You can point to features you owned from vision to measurable impact not features you helped with.
• AI Track Record: At least one AI/LLM feature shipped in production with real evals prompt iteration and ownership of cost/quality trade-offs. Solid grasp of modern LLM stacks: RAG prompt engineering fine-tuning -context learning vector stores. ChatGPT prompts dont count we want AI-native workflows you actually built.
• Client Empathy That Translates: Genuine empathy for both sides the advisor under deadline pressure and the client who just wants certainty and the discipline to turn that empathy into product decisions not backlog items.
• Eye for Design: Figma fluency at the sketch-and-review level. Strong opinions on what good UI looks like and zero tolerance for sloppy interfaces. Excitement for Claude Design is a plus.
• AI Enthusiasm: You use AI products daily you critique them publicly or privately and you have sharp views on where theyre going. Hands-on familiarity with Claude Cowork/Design/Code GPT Gemini or similar is the baseline.
• Self-Implementation: You dont wait to be unblocked. You prototype test prompts wire up integrations hack together whats needed. If its blocked you unblock it.
• Structured Thinking: MECE first principles hypothesis-driven. You compress ambiguity into clear decisions not into more slide decks.
• Communication: Excellent English (C2). German is a strong plus.
• Domain Background: Experience in Finance Tax Accounting or adjacent domains is a strong plus as is familiarity with accounting/finance software stacks DATEV ELSTER or regulated data workflows.

Benefits

Creative Freedom & Real Impact - Define what modern tax advisory looks like in Germany with full ownership

Cross-Functional Collaboration - Tight loops with engineering and tax far beyond classic compliance work

Ownership from Day 1 - Co-build the future of a trillion dollar industry not a side feature in a legacy stack

Steep Learning Curve - Work shoulder-to-shoulder with some of the sharpest most ambitious minds in Europe

Smart Ambitious & Fun Team - Direct collaboration with an experienced founding team (140M exit track record) regular team events lunches and more global ambition in the heart of Munich

Modern Tech Setup - No budget limits on the best AI tools. Digital processes clear structures zero paper chaos

Competitive Compensation

Company Equity (VSOP) - For selected roles

Office in the Heart of Munich

become.1 Benefits Platform - Monthly budget for perks & personal expenses

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Ready to redefine tax advisory

Join Skalar and help us build Germanys most modern client experience.