
Product Owner – Business Lead
Minor Hotels Europe and Americas
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Fort Mill • South Carolina • United States
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Salary
💰 $103,330 - $128,656 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- Drive the business vision, value realization, and regulatory compliance for an AI enabled tax overlay and back office automation platform.
- Serve as the central point of accountability across tax SMEs, operations, technology, risk, and client stakeholders.
- Lead end to end product development for the AI driven automation solution that supports centrally managed portfolio initiatives, ensuring seamless alignment between business objectives and technical execution.
- Define and own the product vision, roadmap, and value KPIs for the AI driven tax overlay spanning direct tax, indirect tax, reporting, reconciliations, and filings.
- Translate tax regulations, compliance mandates, and operating model requirements into a prioritized product backlog and actionable AI use cases.
- Lead end to end use case development across data ingestion, classification, calculation, validation, exception handling, and reporting.
- Partner closely with risk, compliance, and audit teams to ensure robust model governance, explainability, and regulatory defensibility.
- Drive client workshops, discovery sessions, and design thinking activities to align AI capabilities with operational needs and pain points.
- Own business acceptance criteria, UAT strategy, and overall readiness for deployment and go live.
- Track value realization, including cost reduction, cycle time improvements, error minimization, and audit readiness.
- Serve as the primary liaison between business stakeholders and the technical delivery team.
- Define, prioritize, and manage product backlog items and user stories within JIRA.
- Translate business requirements into clear, actionable functional specifications.
- Manage project scope and ensure alignment with broader business objectives and strategic priorities.
- Lead discovery workshops and requirements gathering sessions for high value intents.
- Drive decision making, resolve blockers, and ensure momentum across cross functional teams.
- Ensure delivered solutions meet business needs, quality expectations, and operational performance standards.
- Coordinate with third party partners to align on integration requirements and ensure seamless interoperability.
Requirements
- 10+ years in tax operations, financial services operations, or regulatory technology, preferably in wealth management or portfolio management
- Strong understanding of tax workflows
- Strong understanding of optimization processes and related engines
- Experience with agile methodologies and product ownership using JIRA and Confluence
- Ability to engage confidently with clients, auditors, regulators, and senior stakeholders
- Background in portfolio management or trading operations preferred
- Experience delivering AI / automation / analytics platforms in regulated environments.
- Understanding of AWS-based solution architecture
- Technologies JIRA, Confluence for project management and documentation
- Microsoft Office Suite for business documentation
- Understanding of AWS services relevant to the project
- Knowledge of LLM platforms and capabilities
Benefits
- Flexible work
- Healthcare including dental, vision, mental health, and well-being programs
- Financial well-being programs such as 401(k) and Employee Share Ownership Plan
- Paid time off and paid holidays
- Paid parental leave
- Family building benefits like adoption assistance, surrogacy, and cryopreservation
- Social well-being benefits like subsidized back-up child/elder care and tutoring
- Mentoring, coaching and learning programs
- Employee Resource Groups
- Disaster Relief
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
AIautomationtax workflowsoptimization processesproduct ownershipdata ingestionclassificationcalculationvalidationreporting
Soft skills
client engagementstakeholder managementdecision makingproblem solvingcross functional collaborationcommunicationleadershipworkshop facilitationrequirements gatheringproject scope management