Staff Product Manager - Trust Accounting - 100% Remote - EMEA OR NAM

NOTE: This is a FULLY remote role, but the candidate must be within NAM OR EMEA to collaborate with their team, peers, and internal customers. You do not have to be in the specific country or city shown in this listing, but please only apply if you are physically based within NAM OR EMEA.

If you’re based in NAM you’ll need to be in EST timezone to work as close as possible to the team.

Hostaway is a SaaS scale-up that is transforming the vacation rental industry. With innovative solutions and partnerships with giants like Airbnb, VRBO, and Booking, we're taking on the competition and winning. Leveraging our customer-centric core values, we consistently deliver results that encourage growth, learning, and innovation for our team, our customers, and the industry.

Profitable, high-growth, and the first short-term rental PMS unicorn 🦄. Join us at our most exciting stage yet! Learn more about our recent valuation and story here.

About the role

Hostaway powers the future of short-term rental property management. Our platform helps property managers scale their operations, delight guests, and grow revenue with innovative technology tailored to the vacation rental industry

As a Staff Product Manager for Trust Accounting, you'll play a key role in shaping the future of how property managers handle financial compliance and accounting workflows. You will be responsible for defining and executing the product strategy for our embedded trust accounting solution, ensuring it meets the stringent regulatory requirements while delivering an exceptional user experience.

You'll work closely with a cross-functional team of engineers, designers, legal experts, and accounting professionals to deliver a seamless and compliant trust accounting system that helps our users manage their financial operations with confidence. To be successful in this role you will have to put yourself in the shoes of both property managers and accountants, being directly involved in the user research.

To be successful in this role you will have to put yourself in the shoes of both property managers and accountants, being directly involved in the user research.

Your mission:

• Develop and champion a product vision and roadmap for our Trust Accounting solution that aligns with the overall company strategy and regulatory compliance requirements.

• Plan and execute thorough customer research and analysis to deeply understand the needs and pain of property managers and accountants, translating those insights along with legal requirements into product specifications and user stories.

• Collaborate closely with UX/UI designers to create intuitive and user-friendly experiences that simplify complex accounting workflows.

• Partner with legal and accounting subject matter experts to ensure all regulatory requirements are properly addressed while maintaining excellent user experience.

• Prioritize and manage the product backlog, ensuring alignment with business objectives, compliance needs, and user requirements.

• Oversee the entire product development lifecycle, from ideation and design to development, testing, and launch of trust accounting features.

• Define and analyze the metrics that determine success, ensuring the product not only meets compliance standards but also demonstrably simplifies the financial operations of the Property Managers we serve.

• Spearhead the discovery of our reporting and insights layer. You'll identify the essential compliance reports, operational dashboards, and financial statements that provide clarity, ensure audit-readiness, and deliver indispensable value to our users.