About this role
Overview
Baker Tilly is a leading advisory, tax and assurance firm, providing clients with a genuine coast-to-coast and global advantage in major regions of the U.S. and in many of the world’s leading financial centers – New York, London, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago and Boston. Baker Tilly Advisory Group, LP and Baker Tilly US, LLP (Baker Tilly) provide professional services through an alternative practice structure in accordance with the AICPA Code of Professional Conduct and applicable laws, regulations and professional standards. Baker Tilly US, LLP is a licensed independent CPA firm that provides attest services to its clients. Baker Tilly Advisory Group, LP and its subsidiary entities provide tax and business advisory services to their clients. Baker Tilly Advisory Group, LP and its subsidiary entities are not licensed CPA firms.
Baker Tilly Advisory Group, LP and Baker Tilly US, LLP, trading as Baker Tilly, are independent members of Baker Tilly International, a worldwide network of independent accounting and business advisory firms in 141 territories, with 43,000 professionals and a combined worldwide revenue of $5.2 billion. Visit bakertilly.com or join the conversation on LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram.
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Job Description:
What we're building
We're building AI agents that do real work for Baker Tilly's tax, assurance, and advisory teams. They read client files, find risks and opportunities, draft financial statement disclosures, and show their sources, and a practitioner always makes the final call. The data is some of the most sensitive in the business, so we build security in from the start.
Baker Tilly is the sixth-largest accounting and advisory firm in the U.S., with more than 11,000 people, and the firm is investing seriously in AI. We're a small team at the start of that work, and the people who join now will help decide what we build and how.
As a Principal Product Manager, you'll set product direction for this team: hands-on, building the roadmap across our agents, and helping the product managers around you get better at the craft. It's an individual-contributor role. You lead with judgment, data, and influence.
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What you'll work with
• Years of client engagement history, tax returns, and financial records, at the scale of a major firm.
• Tax, audit, and advisory practitioners who help define what good looks like and review what the agents produce.
• Real users inside the firm who give direct feedback on what you build.
• We work in partnership with frontier labs.
• A mix of building and buying. You'll help decide which is which, and everything we ship meets the same standards for security, tracing, and testing.
• Engineers who build with AI tools every day and ship through a code factory more and more.
What you'll do
• Set product direction for a growing set of agents and the data foundation underneath them, tied to what practitioners and the business need.
• Build and own a data-driven roadmap across agents: where to invest, what to stop, and how we know it's working.
• Define how we measure agent quality with our experts: success measures, ground truth, and release criteria.
• Use traces, evaluation results, and usage data to find the biggest gaps, and turn them into priorities for engineering.
• Decide with engineering and leadership what to build, buy, or integrate, and what outside tools and agents must meet.
• Work with security, legal, risk, and practitioner leaders to settle tradeoffs on data, access, and human oversight.
• Coach product managers and raise the bar for how the team does product: discovery, writing, prioritization, and measurement.
• Stay hands-on: run discovery, write specs, and own a major product area yourself.
• Use AI tools extensively to build working prototypes on your own, and shape how product work gets done with them.
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Who you are
• You're a hands-on product person who has shipped things people actually use, ideally end to end, from the first conversation with users through launch and after.
• You're naturally curious, a strong problem solver, and a clear communicator.
• You can take an objective, form an opinion, and move things forward on your own, and bring others with you, even when the path is unclear.
What you bring
• 12+ years in product management preferred, including products you took from idea to broad adoption.
• Strong product management fundamentals, and you enjoy helping others get better at the craft.
• Strong product thinking, data-driven roadmapping, and the ability to connect what we build to real user and business needs.
• You've set direction across several products or teams, and you explain hard tradeoffs clearly to senior leaders.
• You use AI tools extensively, including to build working prototypes on your own, and you have opinions about what works.
• You've built products in a complex regulated industry such as finance or healthcare.
• A bachelor's degree required
Nice to have
• Experience with AI features and trace analysis.
• Experience defining quality measures with domain experts.
• Product practices you built that several teams adopted.
• Familiarity with tax, audit, or financial reporting work.
In a year
• Every agent has a clear owner, a roadmap, and a measure of whether it's working.
• The product managers around you are stronger because of your coaching.
• Leaders and engineers trust the priorities, because the reasoning is clear and based on data.
The pay rate range for this job position are listed below. Actual compensation is influenced by a variety of relevant factors including but not limited to applicant’s skills, prior experience, qualifications, degrees, professional certifications, work arrangements and geographic location. Baker Tilly offers a comprehensive compensation and benefits package to eligible employees.
In Chicago, IL: pay rate range is $167,600 o $272,000
In California: pay rate range is $198,100 to $321,500
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