SVP Product - CPA Products

About the position

📍 Paris or Lyon - open to remote with substantial travel (50%+) About Shine Shine exists to help freelancers and small business owners reclaim the joy of working for themselves. Running a business shouldn't mean drowning in financial admin – it should be inspiring and rewarding. Our app brings banking, invoicing, accounting and admin together in one place, so entrepreneurs can focus on what matters most: growing their business and enjoying the freedom of working for themselves. Shine is joining forces with Cegid , a leading European provider of business management solutions. As part of this acquisition, we're entering an exciting new chapter - expanding our reach and accelerating our mission to become Europe's leading financial copilot for SMBs and accountants. Learn more in our official press announcement: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20251126586228/en/Cegid-Acquires-Shine-to-Accelerate-the-Path-of-Becoming-Europes-Leading-Financial-Copilot-for-SMBs-and-Accountants We're a multicultural team of over 400 people across France, Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands. By bringing together leading European fintechs like Shine, Kontist and Tellow, we've built a single, intuitive platform designed for simplicity, speed and accuracy ,backed by local, award, winning support. Your hiring experience matters Just as we respect our customers' time, we respect yours. Your experience with Shine should feel simple, transparent and genuinely supportive. If this sounds like somewhere you want to grow, we'd love to hear from you 👀 Product CPA at Shine We recently integrated a new product line into the Shine ecosystem, representing an exciting opportunity to modernize long‑standing workflows and elevate product practices in a complex domain. We’re looking for an SVP Product with strong technical fluency and proven experience driving product strategy in environments that combine mature systems, evolving architecture, and deeply specific business logic. This includes leading the transition of a French suite of accounting products toward a more modern, simplified and unified way of working, while ensuring continuity for existing users. You will report directly to our Chief Product & Technology Officer, collaborating closely with engineering on technical decisions, including API design, data flows, architecture trade‑offs, integration patterns, and long‑term system evolution. You’ll also support product teams as they shift from traditional product ownership toward modern, empowered product management. 📋 Your Role as SVP CPA Products Own the multi‑year product strategy: Define and drive the long‑term vision, priorities and roadmap for this domain. Lead modernization of mature systems: Guide the evolution of complex, long‑standing systems with strong architectural awareness. Align product direction across workflows: Ensure coherence and consistency across multiple interconnected product areas. Partner deeply with engineering and working closely on: • Architecture and scalability • Modern API design • Event‑driven and data‑integration patterns • Technical trade‑offs and system evolution Elevate product practices: Support teams as they adopt modern product methods and decision‑making frameworks. Lead and develop product leaders: Manage 4+ direct reports, each with their own product teams. Simplify functional and regulatory complexity: Bring structure and clarity to intricate domain and compliance workflows. Shape a unified user experience: Ensure a coherent, seamless experience across the integrated product line. Collaborate on long‑term transformation planning: Work with senior leadership to plan and execute a multi‑year evolution. 🔎 About you 10-15+ years in product management, including senior leadership Strong technical fluency – able to discuss complex technical topics and comfortable engaging with engineering teams (i.e. Understanding of modern architectural approaches (APIs, event streaming, integrations) Demonstrable ability to build, grow and lead a product team Proven delivery of commercially successful products loved by customers Passion or expertise for the accounting industry Bonus Points: Driver of execution on the basis of an analytical, appropriately commercial, structured approach and with pragmatism, strict prioritisation, delegation, and decisiveness Experience navigating complexity in mature or legacy systems Experience with customer heterogeneity Managed a portfolio of 2 or more Products Business Proficiency in French

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