Minor Hotels Europe and Americas

Product Owner – Business Lead

Minor Hotels Europe and Americas

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Fort MillSouth CarolinaUnited States

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Salary

💰 $103,330 - $128,656 per year

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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