Senior Product Manager (m/w/d)
<div class="show-more-less-html__markup show-more-less-html__markup--clamp-after-5 relative overflow-hidden"> <p><strong>SKALAR – We are building the digital tax advisory of the future</strong></p><br/><p>Radically simple. Fully digital. 100% client-focused.</p><br/><p>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.</p><br/><p>While incumbents drown in manual processes, opaque communication and weeks-long turnaround times, we are shipping a fundamentally new experience: digital, proactive, AI-native.</p><br/><p>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.</p><br/>Tasks<br/><ul><br/><li><strong>Ship AI Features That Move Numbers:</strong> 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.</li><br/><li><strong>Get Obsessed With the User:</strong> 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.</li><br/><li><strong>Own the Roadmap, Defend Trade-Offs:</strong> You own your product line's 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.</li><br/><li><strong>Hold the Bar on Design:</strong> 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 doesn't meet the standard. The best tax UX is invisible – make ours invisible.</li><br/><li><strong>Run on Data, Not Vibes:</strong> You define the KPIs that matter – Time-to-Filing, automation rate, client satisfaction, advisor efficiency – and you steer every iteration from dashboards. Gut feel doesn't ship features here.</li><br/><li><strong>Push the AI Frontier:</strong> You don't follow the AI conversation – you drive it. Evals, prompt iteration, cost/quality trade-offs in production. You experiment relentlessly with what's possible and bring the edge into the product.</li><br/><li><strong>Be the Connective Tissue:</strong> You sit between Engineering, Tax Advisory, and Clients and make the org work faster because of it. First-principles thinking</li><br/></ul><br/>Requirements<br/><ul><br/><li><strong>Product Experience:</strong> 3–6 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.</li><br/><li><strong>AI Track Record:</strong> 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 vs. in-context learning, vector stores. ChatGPT prompts don't count – we want AI-native workflows you actually built.</li><br/><li><strong>Client Empathy That Translates:</strong> 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.</li><br/><li><strong>Eye for Design:</strong> 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.</li><br/><li><strong>AI Enthusiasm:</strong> You use AI products daily, you critique them publicly or privately, and you have sharp views on where they're going. Hands-on familiarity with Claude Cowork/Design/Code, GPT, Gemini or similar is the baseline.</li><br/><li><strong>Self-Implementation:</strong> You don't wait to be unblocked. You prototype, test prompts, wire up integrations, hack together what's needed. If it's blocked, you unblock it.</li><br/><li><strong>Structured Thinking:</strong> MECE, first principles, hypothesis-driven. You compress ambiguity into clear decisions – not into more slide decks.</li><br/><li><strong>Communication:</strong> Excellent English (C2). German is a strong plus.</li><br/><li><strong>Domain Background:</strong> 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.</li><br/></ul><br/>Benefits<br/><p>🎯 <strong>Creative Freedom & Real Impact</strong> - Define what modern tax advisory looks like in Germany – with full ownership</p><br/><p>🤝 <strong>Cross-Functional Collaboration</strong> - Tight loops with engineering and tax, far beyond classic compliance work</p><br/><p>🚀 <strong>Ownership from Day 1</strong> - Co-build the future of a trillion dollar industry – not a side feature in a legacy stack</p><br/><p>🧠 <strong>Steep Learning Curve</strong> - Work shoulder-to-shoulder with some of the sharpest, most ambitious minds in Europe</p><br/><p>👥 <strong>Smart, Ambitious & Fun Team</strong> - Direct collaboration with an experienced founding team (€140M exit track record), regular team events, lunches, and more – global ambition in the heart of Munich</p><br/><p>🛠️ <strong>Modern Tech Setup</strong> - No budget limits on the best AI tools. Digital processes, clear structures, zero paper chaos</p><br/><p>💰 <strong>Competitive Compensation</strong></p><br/><p>📈 <strong>Company Equity (VSOP)</strong> - For selected roles</p><br/><p>📍 <strong>Office in the Heart of Munich</strong></p><br/><p>🎁 <strong>become.1 Benefits Platform</strong> - Monthly budget for perks & personal expenses</p><br/><p>📱 <strong>Company Phone</strong></p><br/><p><strong>Ready to redefine tax advisory?</strong></p><br/><p>Join Skalar – and help us build Germany's most modern client experience.</p> </div>