Senior Product Manager - Accounting
At U.S. Bank, we're on a journey to do our best. Helping the customers and businesses we serve to make better and smarter financial decisions and enabling the communities we support to grow and succeed. We believe it takes all of us to bring our shared ambition to life, and each person is unique in their potential. A career with U.S. Bank gives you a wide, ever-growing range of opportunities to discover what makes you thrive at every stage of your career. Try new things, learn new skills and discover what you excel at—all from Day One.
As a Senior Product Manager, you lead the accounting product area end-to-end (or deliver a high-complexity product as an IC with unique expertise). You set vision, own OKRs, and orchestrate cross-functional delivery to achieve meaningful customer and business outcomes. This role is ideal for a Product Manager with deep experience building or integrating products with small- and mid-market accounting platforms (e.g., QuickBooks, Xero, Sage, NetSuite). You bring strong domain knowledge of accounting workflows, data models, and customer pain points and know how to translate them into scalable, compliant, and intuitive product experiences.
Key responsibilities
- Product profitability & strategy: Define/evangelize strategy; align investment areas and success measures to deliver portfolio outcomes.
- End-to-end delivery leadership: Direct discovery → launch, manage dependencies across teams, and maximize return on spend.
- Cross-channel performance: Shape integrated experiences that drive adoption, engagement, and revenue—leveraging enterprise platforms.
- Customer insight & PMF: Demonstrate deep customer understanding; validate and scale product market fit.
- GTM & analytics: Partner with marketing/sales/ops; define multichannel strategy, budget, and KPIs to drive growth.
- Set a compelling product vision and multi-year strategy for a product area; align executives and partner leaders to an investment thesis.
- Lead multi-team programs end-to-end, sequencing work across squads; managing risks and negotiating resourcing across functions.
- Architect the KPI and forecasting model for the area; tie leading indicators to financial results and govern them.
- Shape cross-channel experiences at scale, eliminating systemic friction to drive adoption, engagement, and revenue.
- Sponsor organizational change (enablement, policy/process updates) that unlocks customer and internal adoption.
- Own and evolve integrations with accounting platforms (e.g., QuickBooks, Xero, Sage), ensuring accurate data flows, reconciliation, and a seamless customer experience.
- Partner closely with accounting software providers and internal finance, risk, and engineering teams to deliver reliable, scalable financial integrations.
- Translate accounting workflows (GL mapping, categorization, reconciliation, close processes) into intuitive product capabilities for SMB customers.
- Identify opportunities to deepen value through accounting-adjacent features (automation, reporting, controls) that drive adoption and retention.
- Ensure integrations meet enterprise-grade standards for accuracy, auditability, security, and compliance.
- Ability to partner effectively with finance, accounting, risk, and compliance stakeholders while delivering customer-centric experiences.
Basic Qualifications
- Product Management experience
Preferred Skills/Experience
- Bachelor's degree in business, Finance or Computer Science preferred, or equivalent work experience
- Responsible for product teams delivering solutions end-to-end or for high-complexity products as an IC.
- 10 years of product management experience
- Expert strength in vision/planning, product development strategy, decision-making, lifecycle, change management; experience shaping cross-channel experiences and scaling adoption; mentoring PMs and influencing practices beyond your team.
- Direct product experience with one or more accounting software platforms (QuickBooks, Xero, Sage, NetSuite, or similar), either as an integration partner or core platform contributor.
- Strong understanding of SMB accounting workflows, including expense categorization, GL mapping, reconciliation, month-end close, and financial reporting.
- Experience shipping and scaling financial data integrations with high expectations for accuracy, reliability, and compliance.
The role offers a hybrid/flexible schedule, which means there's an in-office expectation of 3 or more days per week and the flexibility to work outside the office location for the other days.