Director of Product - AI, Digital Assets & Automation

ABOUT XCEPTOR

Data is at the heart of everything we do: Xceptor has been designed around data manipulation in its broadest sense. We source data from wherever it flows. We curate, normalise, validate, repair, and enrich that data so it reaches its destination in a reliable and consistent format. Data coming out of Xceptor is data our clients can trust.

We are recognised as an expert in the Financial Services vertical, which strongly aligns with Business Users in Middle and Back-Office teams. We enable these users to solve their data challenges by themselves, rather than through a technology-led project.

Our mission - we empower business users within financial institutions to build automated processes that deliver trusted data.

Our values sit at the heart of our business, driving who we are and how we work. At Xceptor, we are:

• Client Centric; w e prioritise our Clients’ experience and needs.

• One Team; we actively support one another to achieve our goals.

• Impactful; w e focus, we innovate, we make every minute matter.

Salary: $175,000 - $250,000 plus bonus

🚀 Your Role:

We are seeking an experienced Director of Product for our AI first tax automation product in New York (hybrid) to lead the strategy, development, and commercial success of one of Xceptor’s most important growth bets.

We are building off a strong SaaS international tax automation product offering and presence and are looking to extend and build new capabilities for the US market.

This role will own the end-to-end product lifecycle for our tax solutions, including:

• Understanding our clients - anticipating their current and future needs
• Keeping pulse of changing industry and regulatory dynamics that impact U.S. Tax in partnership with tax domain experts, legal and compliance
• Developing the long-term vision and strategy for our U.S. Product strategy and creating an execution roadmap
• Building the commercialization and go-to-market strategy in partnership with Sales and cross-functional GTM teams
• Setting the pace, prioritization and execution delivery in partnership with engineering

You will play a critical role in building scalable, high-quality tax capabilities that meet complex regulatory requirements while delivering exceptional customer and business value.

🧩 What You’ll Be Doing:

Product and People Leadership

• Build, coach and lead a team of product managers and cross-functional tribes, setting them up to the best work of their careers
• Develop product craft and culture, raise the performance bar and ensure strategic coherence across initiatives

Customer & Market Insight

• Engage with customers and stakeholders to understand user needs and market dynamics
• Incorporate customer feedback data and market insight into ongoing product decisions

Product Strategy & Roadmap

• Own the product strategy and roadmap for US Tax capabilities, aligned to the broader Solutions portfolio
• Translate high-level strategic direction into clear, actionable product plans and priorities
• Identify opportunities to expand product capability and market coverage

Product Strategy & Execution

• Lead cross-functional teams (engineering, design, data, QA) to identify and build the right solutions that enable our clients and business to thrive
• Develop prototypes and concepts to test and validate ideas for desirability, feasibility and viability
• Translate solutions into prioritized execution roadmap
• Own backlog prioritisation and make trade-offs between scope, speed, and complexity
• Ensure solutions are scalable, reliable, and aligned to broader platform architecture

Commercialisation & Growth

• Partner with commercial and GTM teams to support product adoption, positioning, and revenue growth
• Contribute to pricing, packaging, and monetisation strategies
• Track and drive key performance metrics (e.g. usage, adoption, customer outcomes)
• Identify and build key partnerships across the U.S. Tax ecosystem

Tax Domain Integration

• Work closely with Tax Domain Principals / SMEs to:

• Translate regulatory requirements into product functionality
• Ensure tax logic is accurate, robust, and compliant

• Monitor regulatory and competitive landscape to inform roadmap priorities
• Balance regulatory complexity with product usability and delivery constraints</li&gt