Senior Product Manager (m/w/d)

SKALAR – We are building the digital tax firm of the future

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

We are completely rethinking tax consulting: making it simpler, faster, and more transparent for both clients and the firm's team.

Where other firms struggle with manual processes, long waiting times, and opaque communication, we are building a completely new experience – digital, proactive, and AI-powered. With automated processes in the background and digital interfaces to the client, repetitive tasks run largely by themselves – so that you have time for what really matters: sophisticated consulting, special cases, and strategic client questions.

The difference from other "digital firms": More than half of our team are software developers. You directly shape what they build – and thus, what AI-supported tax consulting will look like in this industry. Your tax knowledge shapes the product, not just its application.

We are an experienced founding team of tax advisors, digital entrepreneurs, and software developers with an exit track record of €140 million. Together with you, we want to build one of Germany's leading firms.

Your Mission

Deliver AI features that move numbers: You are responsible for AI features end-to-end – document recognition, classification, automatic drafting of tax response letters, RAG over client files. You build the eval frameworks, run prompt iterations, and make build-vs-buy decisions regarding models and tooling. No handovers, no excuses.

Become obsessed with the user: You conduct discovery the hard way: interviews, shadowing sessions, synthesis of raw feedback. You go deep enough to distinguish real problems from assumed ones – and become the sharpest voice of the user in your product line.

Take responsibility for the roadmap, defend the trade-offs: You are responsible for the roadmap of your product line end-to-end. Prioritization based on business value, technical feasibility, and regulatory fit. You communicate trade-offs clearly to Engineering, tax consulting, and founders – and defend your decisions with data.

Hold the bar on design: You set a high visual standard and protect it. Figma sovereignty at the review and sketching level: You design flows, criticize components, and block anything that does not meet the standard. The best tax UX is invisible – make ours invisible.

Run on data, not on gut feeling: You define the KPIs that matter – time-to-filing, automation rate, client satisfaction, consultant efficiency – and steer every iteration from dashboards. Gut feeling does not bring features into production here.

Drive the AI frontier: You don't just follow the AI debate – you drive it. Evals, prompt iteration, cost-quality trade-offs in production. You experiment tirelessly with what is possible and bring the spearhead into the product.

Be the connective tissue: You sit between Engineering, tax consulting, and clients, making the organization faster as a result. First-principles thinking.

Your Profile

• Product Experience: 3–6 years of product management in B2B-SaaS, FinTech, Finance, Tax, or a comparably complex environment. You can point to features that you were responsible for from vision to measurable impact – not just features you participated in.

• AI Track Record: At least one AI/LLM feature delivered in production – with real evals, prompt iteration, and responsibility for cost-quality trade-offs. Solid understanding of modern LLM stacks: RAG, Prompt Engineering, Fine-Tuning vs. In-Context-Learning, vector stores. ChatGPT prompts don't count – we want AI-native workflows that you actually built.

• Client Empathy that translates: Real empathy for both sides – the consultant under deadline pressure and the client who simply wants security – and the discipline to translate this empathy into product decisions, not just backlog items.

• Eye for Design: Figma sovereignty at the sketching and review level. Clear opinions on what good UI looks like, and zero tolerance for sloppy interfaces. Enthusiasm for Claude Design is a plus.

• AI Enthusiasm: You use AI products daily, criticize them publicly or privately, and have sharp views on where they are heading. Practical familiarity with Claude Cowork/Design/Code, GPT, Gemini, etc., is the baseline.

• Self-Implementation: You don't wait to be unblocked. You prototype, test prompts, wire integrations, and hack together whatever is necessary. If something is blocked, you unblock it.

• Structured Thinking: MECE, First Principles, hypothesis-driven. You condense 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

• 🧠 You help build what tax consulting will be tomorrow - AI-supported consulting formats that don't exist yet. You help decide what top-tier consulting will look like in the future.

• 🤝 Steep learning curve with founders and the tech team - Direct daily collaboration, mutual sparring at eye level.

• 🚀 Full responsibility from day 1 - Own mandates, service portfolio, growth strategy - you help shape them.

• 🛠️ Modern tech setup — Digital processes, AI-supported tools, clear structures.

• 💰 Competitive salary package + option for shares (VSOP).

• 🏠 Hybrid working - Flexibly combine home office and office.

• 📍 Office in the heart of Munich, top connections.

• 🎁 €3,000 p.a. benefit program + company mobile phone.

Ready to redefine tax consulting?

Become part of Skalar — and help us shape the most modern client experience in Germany.