AI Product Manager, IT

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).

The salary range for this opportunity is stated above. As such, an actual salary may fall closer to one or the other end of the range, and in certain circumstances, may wind up being outside of the listed salary range.

The application window is anticipated to close on October 19, 2026, and may be extended as needed. **Why work for Aprio:**

Whether you are just starting out, looking to advance into management or searching for your next leadership role, Aprio offers an opportunity to grow with a future\-focused, innovative firm.

**Perks/Benefits we offer for full\-time team members:**

• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance on the first day of employment
• Flexible Spending Account and Dependent Care Account
• 401k with Profit Sharing
• 9\+ holidays and discretionary time off structure
• Parental Leave – coverage for both primary and secondary caregivers
• Tuition Assistance Program and CPA support program with cash incentive upon completion
• Discretionary incentive compensation based on firm, group and individual performance
• Incentive compensation related to origination of new client sales
• Top rated wellness program
• Flexible working environment including remote and hybrid options

**What’s in it for you:**

• **Working with an industry leader**: Be part of a high\-growth firm that is passionate for what’s next.
• **An awesome culture:** Thirty\-one fundamental behaviors guide our culture every day ensuring we always deliver an exceptional team\-member and client experience. We call it the Aprio Way. This shared mindset creates lasting relationships between team members and with clients.
• **A great team:** Work with a high\-energy, passionate, caring and ambitious team of professionals in a collaborative culture.
• **Entrepreneurship**: Have the freedom to innovate and bring your ideas to help us grow to become the CPA firm of choice nationally.
• **Growth opportunities**: Grow professionally in an environment that fosters continuous learning and advancement.
• **Competitive compensation**: You will be rewarded with competitive compensation, industry\-leading benefits and a flexible work environment to enjoy work/life balance.

**EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER**

Aprio is an Equal Opportunity Employer encouraging diversity in the workplace.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race; color; religion; national origin; sex; pregnancy; sexual orientation; gender identity and/or expression; age; disability; genetic information, citizenship status; military service obligations or any other category protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.

Aprio, LLP and Aprio Advisory Group, LLC, operate in an alternative business structure, with Aprio Advisory Group, LLC providing non\-attest tax and consulting services, and Aprio, LLP providing CPA firm services.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans.

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