At Collective we are building first-of-its-kind, category-defining AI-enabled financial back-office to help millions of solopreneurs to start and run their businesses more effectively. We are looking for a Tax Product Lead to lead our Tax product area - which includes Business tax, Individual tax, quarterly tax estimation, state and local taxes, tax advice and savings features, and much more.

We are backed by top-tier Fintech and AI VCs - General Catalyst, QED, Gradient (Google’s venture fund to invest in AI companies), Expa, and more. We pride ourselves in rethinking established paradigms and bringing creative solutions into existence for our customers. As the product lead you will set the vision, strategy, roadmap, and lead execution for your area. You will help your product development team navigate uncertainty with structured thinking & communication, make decisions with strong product & analytical sense, and be highly effective at execution & knocking down barriers.

⚒️Responsibilities:

Own the product area vision, strategy, implementation, and customer & business outcomes for Taxes.
Work closely with engineers, applied AI team, and subject matter experts to bring to life best in class tax product experiences
Lead and inspire an XFN team to ship innovative experiences.
Deeply understand business and product performance to ensure the team is focused on the highest leverage opportunities that balance long term growth with immediate business needs.
Manage the roadmap and team processes to enhance quality and velocity of execution, make tradeoff decisions between business priorities and available resources.
Drive effective partnership both cross-functionally, across product teams, and external partners to ensure the team is effectively strong business outcomes.
Define the framework and metrics to measure the impact of the team; deeply understand the core drivers and monitor progress.

🙌 What we want you to bring:

5-6+ years of product management - You have a deep understanding of the product craft throughout the entire product lifecycle - delivering successful & innovative products
Tax or adjacent expertise – You understand accounting, how accounting factors into a business day-to-day, implications of getting it right/wrong, regulatory requirements, and operational considerations.
An “owner” and “driver” mindset – You are biased toward action and get stuff done. No task is too big or too small for you. You strive to solve problems independently, while striking the balance of asking for help.
Drive for simplicity & elegance – Ability to take on complex product challenges and find elegant, simplifying solutions to avoid making them our customers’ and partner’s problems.
A high quality bar – For your own contributions and those of the people around you.
Comfort & skill with ambiguity - Ability to independently solve ambiguous problems with - first principles and structured thinking
Strong written and & communication - High signal, clear & succinct, and structured communication.
Fluency with data – You’ve worked on ML (or data heavy) products in the past, and are comfortable running A/B tests. You know how to leverage data to make product decisions without getting stuck in analysis paralysis.
Intellectual curiosity & humility – Product development is a deep team sport. You are intellectually curious, a team player, and have strong opinions loosely held w/ humility.

Bonus Points if you have:

Experience working in a fast-paced, high growth environment
Prior consulting (BCG/Bain/Mckinsey) or investment banking experience
Reforge certification(s)

Why Collective:

Collective is the first-of-its-kind, category-defining AI enabled financial back office for Businesses-of-One.
We were backed by top tier VCs.
A dynamic, high growth, diverse, and collaborative team where you can learn & grow rapidly.
Competitive salary and stock options package
Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance

Product Lead - Tax