Director of Product Management, Platform

Taxfix

Director of Product Management responsible for platform product strategy at Taxfix. Overseeing AI-native infrastructure and coordinating multiple business units for effective operations.

Posted 7/24/2026full-timeBerlin • 🇩🇪 GermanyLeadWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in platform product strategy, service ownership, and AI-native infrastructure, with a strong focus on coordinating across business units to enhance velocity and ROI. Proven ability to manage complex demands and build trust with internal customers while ensuring efficient platform operations.

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Platform Product StrategyService OwnershipAI-Native ToolingCapacity PlanningHigh Coordination Threshold

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Hard Skills

API StrategyPlatform ReliabilityInner Source ModelsInfrastructure ManagementData Extraction

Soft Skills

Trust BuildingConflict ResolutionHigh Autonomy Leadership

Tools & Technologies

MCPSDKs

Industry Keywords

Platform-as-a-ServiceAI-First OrganizationBusiness Unit CoordinationOperational ToolingBookkeeping

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own the platform product strategy. Set direction for all platform teams including but not limited to user management, payments, operational tooling, tax infrastructure, data extraction, and bookkeeping. Make trade-offs visible and hold the line on what gets built vs. what BUs own themselves.
Run the inner source model efficiently. The model exists. Your job is to make it work at scale. Define how BUs contribute, when platform teams lead vs. enable, and how to keep velocity high without becoming a bottleneck or a free-for-all.
Lead service ownership across the platform. Work with engineering to enforce service ownership standards so BU AI builder teams can move fast, without carrying maintenance work that should never have been theirs.
Coordinate across business units. This is one of the most coordination-intensive roles in the organisation. Multiple BUs have simultaneous, sometimes competing demands on the same platform. You absorb that complexity, resolve conflicts, and keep the platform teams focused without creating queues.
Allocate capacity to impact. Actively manage portfolio and team sizing across multiple group owners. Know when a team is over-invested relative to BU demand and when a platform gap is costing BUs real velocity. Make the reallocation calls.
Build for AI-native infrastructure. Platform teams increasingly surface capabilities through MCP APIs and SDKs. You understand this architecture, have a clear POV on where it changes platform economics, and ensure the platform is set up to serve an AI-first product organisation.
Be the BU's partner, not their gatekeeper. Build the trust model with BU product leaders so they come to platform early, contribute clearly, and don't route around you. Your success metric is BU autonomy, not platform output.
Define and own platform ROI. If a platform capability isn't making BUs faster or the business more efficient, that's a prioritisation failure. Own the metrics that prove platform value and act on them when they don't.
Lead your group owners. High-autonomy builders working across technical, infrastructure-adjacent domains. Set the bar, give them a vision sharp enough to act on, and create the conditions where ambitious work and fast execution coexist.

Requirements

What you’ll need

You've led platform or infrastructure product at a scaling tech company and delivered results under real engineering and commercial pressure.
You've built strong technical foundations. You're credible in service ownership conversations, API strategy, and platform reliability trade-offs without needing an engineering co-pilot.
You're fluent in AI-native tooling: MCP, APIs, SDKs. You understand how AI-first organisations consume platform capabilities and you can set the platform up to serve them.
You've worked with inner source or platform-as-a-service models before and you know the difference between shipping the model and making it work efficiently.
You have a high coordination threshold. Multiple internal customers with competing demands is the job, not the exception. You thrive in that, you don't endure it.
You measure platform success in BU velocity and ROI, not feature throughput or ticket closure rate.
You have capacity planning instincts. You know when a team is over-invested relative to demand and you make the reallocation call without being asked.
You've built genuine trust with internal customers. BU leaders come to you early because it makes their work easier, not because they have to.
You are genuinely AI-native. You use AI in your own practice daily: workflows, coding assistants, real problems. It's a way of working, not a feature to ship.
You're fluent in English.

Benefits

Comp & perks

A chance to do meaningful, people-centric work with an international team of passionate professionals.
Holistic well-being with free mental health coaching sessions and yoga.
A monthly allowance to spend on an extensive range of services that you can use and roll over as flexibly as you like.
Employee stock options for all employees—because everyone deserves to benefit from the success they help to create.
30 annual vacation days and flexible working hours.
Work from abroad for up to six weeks every year. Just align with your team, and then enjoy your trip.
Plenty of opportunities to socialise as a team. In addition to internal tech meetups, our international team hosts regular get-togethers—virtually and in person when possible.
Free tax declaration filing, of course, through the Taxfix app—and internal support for all personal tax-related questions.
Have a four-legged friend in your life? We’re happy to have dogs join us in the office.