Job Description

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; we prioritise our Clients’ experience and needs.
One Team; we actively support one another to achieve our goals.
Impactful; we 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

Cross-functional Leadership & Alignment

Partner closely with:

Senior Director, Solutions
Engineering leadership
Domain experts

Drive alignment across teams to ensure coordinated delivery of product outcomes
Persistence and a proactive, solutions-focused approach to delivering product success
Superior written and verbal communication skills
Influence decisions and drive progress across stakeholders without direct authority

Execution & Operational Excellence

Ensure clear product processes, communication, and delivery discipline
Drive visibility of progress, risks, and outcomes across stakeholders
Continuously improve ways of working to enhance delivery effectiveness

🎯 Who we're looking for:

We’re looking for an experienced product leader who combines strong product management expertise with a deep understanding of complex, regulated domains. This role will own the strategy, roadmap, and delivery of our US tax product capabilities within the broader solutions portfolio, partnering closely with engineering, domain experts, and go-to-market teams.

People, Product and Delivery Leadership

8-12+ years of progressive product experience with 3+ years leading and developing other PMs
Demonstrated ability to hire, develop, and retain strong PMs; track record of stretching senior ICs and helping them grow
Proven track record building B2B SaaS solutions with material client and business impact
Proven experience owning a product area or domain, with accountability for roadmap definition and delivery

Domain & Problem-Solving Capability

Ability to work effectively with domain experts (e.g. Tax SMEs) to translate complex requirements into product solutions
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to operate in ambiguous or evolving environments

AI-Forward Product Sense

Hands-on experience shipping AI-native product experiences (LLM-powered, agentic, conversational, or workflow automation)
Strong intuition around what great looks like in next generation products and AI experiences

Technical Proficiency & Cross-Functional Collaboration

Ability to engage in discussions around system design, data models, APIs, AI/ML systems and platform considerations
Experience driving alignment across engineering, design, and domain stakeholders

Commercial & Customer Focus

Experience working with go-to-market, sales, and customer teams to support product adoption and growth
Ability to incorporate customer insight and market feedback into roadmap decisions
Understanding of commercial drivers impacting product success

Leadership & Influence

Proven ability to lead and influence cross-functional teams without direct authority
Experience partnering with senior stakeholders (e.g. Senior Directors, Engineering leaders to align on strategy, secure investment and unblock execution
Strong communication and stakeholder management skills

🌍 Diversity & Inclusion at Xceptor

We believe great ideas come from everywhere — and that the best teams are made up of people with different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. At Xceptor, we’re committed to building a workplace where everyone feels welcome, valued, and empowered to be themselves.

We know that not everyone ticks every single box in a job description — and that’s okay. If you’re excited about this role and think you could make a difference, we’d love to hear from you. Your unique skills and experiences might be just what we need, even if you don’t meet every requirement.

We celebrate diversity and are dedicated to creating an inclusive environment for all employees — regardless of race, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability, religion, or background.

🌗 Hybrid at Xceptor

We love the buzz of the office and the flexibility of home—so at Xceptor, you get the best of both. Our people spend 2-3 days per week in the office collaborating, brainstorming, and connecting in person. The rest is up to you. It’s all about great teamwork, balanced with the freedom to work your way.

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Please note:

Xceptor works with clients in financial services and our offers of employment are subject to the satisfactory completion of background checks, which includes criminal record checks, and credit reference checks.
If you have any employment gaps exceeding three months within the last six years, we will request additional information and evidence to clarify those periods.

About Xceptor

Our mission is to empower financial services companies to build automated processes that deliver trusted data and create better customer outcomes. At the same time, we aim to increase our clients’ productivity, reduce their time-to-market, and optimize their operational processes.

Essentially, we make the lives of our clients, and their customers, easier. Our platform and products provide financial services teams with the digital skills they need to succeed in the digitized world we now live in. Automated data is fast becoming a critical necessity for financial institutions as demand for trusted data automation grows. As trade volume increases, so does the number of transactions that are processed. This creates the need for increasingly complex regulations. As such, decoupling data from processes is no longer a viable option for financial services companies. That’s why we’ve created a platform that automates the processing of data while ensuring all compliance is met. In turn, we deliver a higher return on our clients’ investments along with faster times to market.

We understand the evolving needs of the markets, and so we’re able to provide our clients with products that enhance the most critical and complex processes, all through an exceptionally configurable platform. Our products help companies convert structured, semi-structured and unstructured, multiple-format and fragmented data into trusted, reliable sources. The comprehensive, end-to-end nature of our products has enabled us to become a leader in the financial services market.

Industry

IT & Software

Company Size

201-500 employees

Headquarters

London, GB

Year Founded

2003

Website

xceptor.com

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