Product Owner, Tax

🚀 Your Role:

As the Tax Product Owner, you will play a significant role in designing, solutioning and maintaining Xceptor’s most advanced, industry-leading tax solutions. The Tax Product owner collaborates across the business and works with internal engineering, client success teams, sales, support and externally with clients and industry partners. 

🧩 What You’ll Be Doing:

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  • Create, own, and execute against the Tax product roadmap tied to the long-term vision and strategy of Xceptor. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  • Become the subject matter expert for tax product features with hands-on knowledge of the intricacies of the product with the ability to present functionality and clearly articulate functionality to internal and external stakeholders. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  • Accurately define the requirements for key roadmap activities, proving you have a ruthless understanding of prioritisation for value. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  • Question, understand, and challenge the development team, articulating both technical and business understanding to users. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  • Act as the lead product demonstrator and where appropriate interface with prospect, customer, client engagement and sales engineers. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  • Articulate and translate tax requirements into relevant Epics, Features, user stories, scenarios, customer journeys, and wireframes, if necessary, for the developers to understand the goal of each prioritised item. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  • Manage product and engineering backlogs on tools operated within the organization (e.g. ProductBoard, Azure DevOps) 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  • Lead Sprint planning and maintain the product backlog based on the team’s roadmap and priorities. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  • Ensure our Tax product remains compatible with SaaS, in collaboration with our other engineering teams. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  • Acts as a facilitator between the Development & Product team, Delivery, and any third parties concerning solution functionality. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  • Maintain product documentation/catalogue of features and changes. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  • Provides walk-throughs as part of user acceptance, to both delivery and clients, and ensures documentation is updated. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  • Escalates problems through agreed channels as appropriate and manage them through to successful resolution, keeping all stakeholders regularly updated. 
  
  
  
  

🎯 Who we're looking for:

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  • Excellent stakeholder management and engagement skills. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  • Drive and self-initiative. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  • Able to see problems through to conclusion, irrespective of delay, opposition, diversion, or lack of product knowledge. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  • Able to take ownership and responsibility for identifying issues and risks and driving stakeholders to effectively resolve and manage. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  • Good impact and influence; seeks to understand as well as to be understood. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  • First class facilitation skills, enabling the team to drive out root requirements, rather than accepting the solution stated by the business/client. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  • Knowledge of Agile methodology, especially writing and managing features, user stories and acceptance criteria. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  • The ability to storyboard and lead solution scoping process whilst ensuring all stakeholders are informed and clear on project activity/involvement. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  • Excellent communication skills. Must be able to communicate at both a technical and non-technical level. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  • Ability to contribute to the continuous improvement of team and business processes. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  • Familiarity with the sell-side asset servicing sector and operational withholding tax processes is preferred, but not essential. 
  
  
  
  

🌍 Diversity & Inclusion at Xceptor

We believe great ideas come from everywhere — and that the best teams are made up of people with different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. At Xceptor, we’re committed to building a workplace where everyone feels welcome, valued, and empowered to be themselves.

We know that not everyone ticks every single box in a job description — and that’s okay. If you’re excited about this role and think you could make a difference, we’d love to hear from you. Your unique skills and experiences might be just what we need, even if you don’t meet every requirement.

We celebrate diversity and are dedicated to creating an inclusive environment for all employees — regardless of race, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability, religion, or background.