Head of Product — Canadian Solutions

Strategy and roadmap 

• Own the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for Canadian audit, assurance, and financial reporting solutions. 

• Define what should be built for the Canadian market, for whom, and the opportunity it addresses. 

• Ensure the Canadian roadmap aligns with the overall product and company vision. 

• Own prioritization, scoping, and planning for the Canadian portfolio, and identify and mitigate delivery risks against the roadmap. 

• Decide what enters the portfolio and what is retired and produce the business case behind each decision. 

• Make the build, buy, or partner recommendation for Canadian capability gaps. 

• Report Canadian portfolio performance to senior leadership. 

Market and customers 

• Be an expert on the Canadian public accounting domain, the market, and the trends shaping it. 

• Keep Canadian solutions current with CPA Canada standards, including CAS, ASPE, ASNPO, and IFRS as adopted in Canada, and interpret changes before they land. 

• Be the champion and voice of the customer, and build lasting relationships with Canadian firms. 

• Feed what you learn from customers back into the roadmap. 

• Represent Caseware to the Canadian profession, including standard-setters, firm advisory groups, and industry bodies. 

Quality and compliance 

• Hold quality as a top priority, and treat standards compliance as a deliverable rather than an assumption. 

• Set the bar a Canadian solution must meet before it ships. 

Go-to-market and commercial 

• Work with go-to-market teams on positioning, launch, enablement, and the success of Canadian solutions in market. 

• Contribute the product view to commercial strategy, pricing, and packaging for the Canadian portfolio. 

Team and leadership 

• Lead, hire, and develop the product management team, and grow it as the portfolio grows. 

• Set the strategy out clearly and often, so everyone working on Canadian solutions understands where it is going and why. 

• A CPA (Canada) in good standing, with a strong interest in technology. 

• Actively practiced within the last ten years. 

• Deep knowledge of current Canadian audit and accounting standards, and the ability to read and interpret future standards. 

• 10+ years of public accounting experience, or combined public accounting and product management experience 

• Experience leading and growing teams. 

• Experience working with sales, customer success, and marketing teams on pipeline, go-to-market, and retention. 

• Experience prioritizing and planning across competing demands and surfacing risk early rather than late. 

• Able to set out a strategy and the evidence behind it to a senior audience. 

• A lifelong learner, self-motivated to stay current with professional standards and changes in the accounting and auditing profession. 

• Results orientated — willing to roll up their sleeves and take initiative. 

• A self-starter who works effectively without daily supervision and communicates clearly with colleagues across regions.