About the Role
The Sr. Product Manager, Enterprise Systems is responsible for the enterprise-wide lifecycle strategy, prioritization, and value realization of core systems and platforms. This role partners with executive leadership to translate strategic intent into a clear system vision, roadmap, and delivery plan, ensuring systems are well-designed, effectively adopted, and continuously improved.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the accountable product leader for assigned platforms and system domains.
- Define, align, and execute system roadmaps, backlogs, and enhancement plans.
- Lead prioritization alignment across competing priorities and enterprise objectives.
- Develop lifecycle strategy including upgrades, optimization, and platform evolution.
- Define product management standards, governance, and best practices.
- Drive alignment across multiple systems to ensure cohesive enterprise architecture.
- Provide mentorship and leadership to product managers and cross-functional team members.
- Partner with business system owners to clarify intent, outcomes, and success criteria.
- Advise business leaders on tradeoff and investment decisions.
- Lead alignment on cross-functional impacts and enterprise cohesion.
- Act as a trusted advisor to business leadership regarding system strategy.
- Challenge business assumptions to ensure alignment with the enterprise operating model.
- Own adoption strategy for system changes from rollout through reinforcement.
- Partner with Internal Communications and Training teams to enable behavior change.
- Define and monitor adoption metrics and enterprise-wide KPIs.
- Ensure sustained adoption by driving alignment across business, technology, and training functions.
- Provide strategic guidance to project managers for roadmap execution.
- Ensure alignment with IT on technical feasibility, security, architecture, and integrations.
- Direct vendor engagement from a business and product perspective.
- Measure system utilization, effectiveness, and realized business value.
- Identify and drive initiatives to reduce manual work and improve efficiency.
- Drive enterprise-level system optimization, consolidation, and rationalization strategies.
- Recommend major system investment, replacement, or retirement decisions.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in business, accounting, finance, information systems, computer science, or related field.
- Minimum 8 years of progressive experience in product management, systems leadership, or enterprise application ownership.
- Experience leading enterprise-scale initiatives and working with senior or executive stakeholders.
- Strong understanding of business processes and operating models.
- Ability to lead without authority and navigate complex stakeholder environments.
- Experience translating business needs into scalable system designs.
- Ability to influence executive stakeholders and align competing priorities.
- Strong strategic thinking with the ability to connect decisions to measurable business outcomes.
- Experience operating at enterprise scale across multiple systems or domains.
- Ability to operate at both strategic and executive levels.
- Demonstrated ability to work efficiently in areas of uncertainty.
- Familiarity with a broad range of technologies and system architectures.
- Knowledge of business process modeling and improvement techniques.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to work independently and lead a team.
- Strong attention to detail and organizational skills.
Skills
- Product management
- Systems leadership
- Enterprise application ownership
- Strategic planning
- Stakeholder management
- Business process modeling
- Project management platforms (e.g., Jira, Wrike)
- Information security audit frameworks (e.g., SOC 2, ISO27001)
- Analytical skills
Location
- San Francisco, CA (Headquarters)
- Remote
- Hybrid
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 8+ years of experience
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree
- Advanced degree, MBA, or relevant professional certification (e.g., CBAP, CCBA) preferred
Salary/Compensations
- $144,000 - $194,000
Benefits
- Increased number of paid holidays per year
- Competitive salaries
- Flexible working hours
- Professional growth and development opportunities
- 401(k) package with firm profit-sharing
- Quality work-life integration
- Dress for your day policy
- Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) and affinity groups
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Life and disability insurance
- Commuter flex accounts
About the Company
- National certified public accounting and consulting firm founded in 1989.
- Headquartered in San Francisco with more than 25 offices nationwide.
- Recognized leader in real estate, community development, affordable housing, historic preservation, and renewable energy.
- Provides audit, tax, valuation, expert witness, litigation support, property compliance, and general consulting services.
Equal Opportunity
- Novogradac and Company LLP is an equal opportunity employer.
- Committed to an equitable and inclusive workplace regardless of age, race, religion, gender identity, or sexual orientation.
- Provides reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities or special needs throughout the application process.
