Collective is on a mission to redefine the way businesses-of-one work. Collective’s technology and team of trusted advisors enables our members to achieve financial independence by taking care of everything from business incorporation to accounting, bookkeeping, tax services and access to a thriving community, all in one integrated platform. We believe in empowering self-employed people to enjoy the same tax savings that big companies get.
Featured in Forbes, Business Insider, Yahoo, Bloomberg, Financial Times, Techcrunch and more. We’re backed by General Catalyst, Sound Ventures (Ashton Kutcher and Guy Oseary), QED Investors, Google’s Gradient Ventures, Expa and prominent investors who have financed and built iconic companies like YouTube, Substack, Twitch, Box, Hims, Instacart, Lyft, and more.
About the role:We’re looking for an entrepreneurial and gritty Product Lead to join our growing Product team. At Collective we are building first-of-its-kind, category-defining AI-enabled financial back-office to help millions of solopreneurs run their businesses more effectively. We are looking for a Product Lead to head up our Accounting area - which is AI-enabled and the beating heart of Collective.
We are backed by top-tier Fintech and AI VCs - General Catalyst, QED, Gradient (Google’s venture fund to invest in AI companies), Expa, and more. We pride ourselves in rethinking established paradigms and bringing creative solutions into existence for our customers. As the product lead you will set the vision, strategy, roadmap, and lead execution for your area. You will help your product development team navigate uncertainty with structured thinking & communication, make decisions with strong product & analytical sense, and be highly effective at execution & knocking down barriers.
⚒️Responsibilities: Own the product area vision, strategy, implementation, and customer & business outcomes for Accounting. Work closely with AI engineers and subject matter experts to bring to life AI-driven product experiences - for example: Categorizing transactions using LLMs. Work with the Accounting operations team to ensure they have the tools and workflows to be effective. Determine where product automation & AI can unlock efficiencies. Lead and inspire an XFN team to ship innovative experiences. Deeply understand business and product performance to ensure the team is focused on the highest leverage opportunities that balance long term growth with immediate business needs. Manage the roadmap and team processes to enhance quality and velocity of execution, make tradeoff decisions between business priorities and available resources. Drive effective partnership both cross-functionally, across product teams, and external partners to ensure the team is effectively strong business outcomes. Define the framework and metrics to measure the impact of the team; deeply understand the core drivers and monitor progress.