Work with a Top 20 CPA and advisory firm that Accounts for Anything. Aprio has 40 U.S. office locations, as well as international office locations and more than 3,200 team members that speak 60+ languages across the globe. By bringing together proven expertise, deep understanding, and strategic foresight for fast-growing industries, Aprio ensures clients are prepared for wherever life or business may take them. Discover a top-rated culture, vast growth opportunities and your next big career move with Aprio. Position Responsibilities: Portfolio Ownership & Delivery: Own the product vision, roadmap, and delivery outcomes for a portfolio of AI platforms spanning multiple Aprio business lines. Serve as the individual-contributor product owner for select projects, directly managing product backlogs from discovery through release. Translate business needs into clear epics, features, user stories, acceptance criteria, and release plans; maintain backlog quality, sequencing, and readiness for development. Lead backlog refinement and sprint planning for assigned projects, make day-to-day scope and priority decisions, partner closely with engineering and quality assurance, and accept completed work against defined requirements. Set the delivery standards the team works to, covering intake, scoping, sprint cadence, QA gates, and release readiness, and hold concurrent workstreams to them. Make and defend prioritization tradeoffs across the portfolio, balancing near-term practice demand against long-term platform scalability and maintainability. Manage onshore and offshore development partners on scope, capacity, quality, and escalation, holding vendors to committed outcomes. Own budget input, consumption and licensing forecasts, and the business case for new platform investment. People Leadership & Development: Lead, coach, and develop a team of AI product owners and associates, including onboarding, goal setting, and day-to-day unblocking. Hold a consistent 1:1 cadence, set clear performance expectations, give candid feedback in the moment, and run mid-year and annual performance reviews. Build individual development plans that grow real product craft: discovery, written communication, prioritization, stakeholder influence, and AI fluency. Create and protect the team's operating rhythm, including backlog reviews, demos, retrospectives, and shared documentation standards. Partner with talent acquisition to define roles, screen candidates, and run structured interviews as the team grows. Build bench strength and succession coverage for every critical platform so no product depends on a single person. Stakeholder Engagement & Influence: Serve as the senior point of contact for assigned platforms with practice leaders, partners, and firm leadership. Facilitate requirements-gathering and prioritization sessions with subject matter experts, turning competing asks into a defensible sequence. Communicate status, risk, and tradeoffs to executive audiences including the AI Council, escalating early and with options rather than problems alone. Drive adoption and change management through enablement, training, and feedback loops that turn a release into actual usage. AI & Innovation: Set the direction for applying generative AI to professional services, including LLMs, document intelligence, agentic workflows, and structured output generation. Evaluate and select AI models, APIs, and tooling (e.g., Anthropic Claude, OpenAI, Azure AI), and define the reusable patterns the team applies across platforms. Own responsible AI practices for the portfolio in partnership with Risk, Legal, and IT Security, including data privacy, data residency, and client confidentiality (e.g., §7216 consent where applicable). Define and track the measures that prove platform value: adoption, cycle-time reduction, accuracy and quality benchmarks, and realization impact. Qualifications: Required: 8+ years in product management, technology, operations, or consulting, including at least 4 years owning multi-stakeholder product initiatives end-to-end. 2+ years leading people with accountability for their output, performance, and growth. Direct reports preferred; sustained formal team leadership considered. Demonstrated ability to operate as a player-coach, balancing people leadership and portfolio oversight with direct individual-contributor ownership of product delivery. Strong, hands-on product management fundamentals applied across concurrent products, including direct backlog ownership, writing and refining epics and user stories, defining acceptance criteria, sprint planning, acceptance testing, and release coordination. Track record managing software development resources, including offshore or contract developers, against scope, budget, and quality. Hands-on familiarity with generative-AI tools and platforms, including prompting and testing of AI APIs. Excellent written and verbal communication, with the presence to hold a room of partners and executives and the discipline to write clearly for technical and non-technical readers. Ability to learn new domains quickly and translate complex professional-services workflows into product requirements. Preferred: Experience in public accounting or professional services. Experience scaling a product team or function from early stage to steady state. Exposure to agentic AI workflows, RAG architectures, or LLM integration patterns. Familiarity with the Microsoft 365 ecosystem (SharePoint, Teams, Power Platform). Familiarity with relevant domain software ecosystems (e.g., for tax: CCH Axcess, GoSystems, TaxCaddy).