Wolters Kluwer

Lead Product Manager

Wolters Kluwer$107K — $188K *
Legal & Accounting
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience; Computer Science or Software Engineering degree preferred.
  • 8+ years in Product Management or as a Founder, ideally within fast-scaling startups.
  • Experience in Audit, Tax, Accounting, or Regulated Industries preferred.
  • Ability to own and scale B2B products with measurable business impact.
  • Strong business acumen and owner mindset.
  • Deep user empathy with a focus on understanding workflow pain points.
  • Familiarity with AI technologies, especially large language models (LLMs).

Responsibilities

  • Lead product offerings from inception through maturity.
  • Own the product roadmap, vision, and team priorities.
  • Define success metrics and drive initiatives toward measurable outcomes.
  • Translate high-level strategy into detailed requirements and success metrics.
  • Collaborate with Engineering and Design for high-quality product delivery.
  • Manage competing priorities and workstreams effectively to maximize impact.
  • Utilize data and insights to guide decision-making and diagnose product performance.

Benefits

  • Medical, Dental, and Vision Plans.
  • 401(k) retirement plan.
  • Flexible Spending Account (FSA) and Health Savings Account (HSA).
  • Commuter Benefits.
  • Tuition Assistance Plan.
  • Vacation and Sick Time.
  • Paid Parental Leave.
Full Job Description
Basic Function

As a Lead Product Manager for Wolters Kluwer, you'll own a strategically important component of the Professional Audit workflow, a critical SaaS platform within the CCH Tax & Accounting portfolio. You won't just define features; you'll be accountable for driving the product success end-to-end.

This role is for someone who thrives in a fast-moving environment, adeptly balancing multiple priorities, and making high-impact decisions even when information is incomplete. You'll operate with a strong sense of ownership, combining product judgment, analytical rigor, and business acumen to drive meaningful outcomes.

Essential Duties and responsibilities

Product Ownership & Strategy
  • Lead one or more offerings from 0-1 and beyond.
  • Own the roadmap, long-term vision, and priorities for your team's focus area.
  • Establish clear definitions of success and drive initiatives toward measurable business and customer outcomes.
  • Make informed, timely, thoughtful tradeoffs to balance speed, quality, and long-term strategic value.


Execution & Delivery
  • Translate strategy into clear requirements, specs, and success metrics.
  • Collaborate closely with Engineering and Design to ship high-quality product enhancements.
  • Manage multiple simultaneous workstreams, deadlines and navigating competing priorities while staying focused on what drives the greatest impact.


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
  • 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.
  • 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.

Job Qualifications

Education: Bachelor's degree from an accredited university, or equivalent experience

Computer Science or Software Engineering Degree preferred.

Experience: 8+ years of Product Management and/or Founder experience, ideally in an early-stage or fast-scaling startup.
  • Domain experience in Audit, Tax and Accounting or Regulated Industries preferred


Other Knowledge, Skills, Abilities or Certifications:
  • Demonstrated ability to own and scale a B2B product or product area with business impact.
  • Strong business acumen and ability to think like an owner.
  • Deep empathy for users and a passion for understanding real-world workflows and pain points.
  • Strong intuition for the capabilities and limitations of LLMs and AI in general. This can be from hands-on experience with AI-powered tools, previous work experience, or educational coursework.


Travel requirements

25% domestic, occasional international

Physical Demands

Normal office environment.

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:
$107,500.00 - $188,400.00 USD

This role is eligible for Bonus.

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.

About Wolters Kluwer

Wolters Kluwer N.V. is a global information services company. The company provides information, software, and services to legal, business, tax, accounting, finance, audit, risk, compliance, and healthcare professionals. Wolters Kluwer has operations in over 40 countries and employs approximately 19,500 people worldwide. The company is headquartered in Alphen aan den Rijn, Netherlands.
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