Founding Product Manager

Posted May 21

About Column Tax

Column Tax's mission is to build a better financial world.

The largest social welfare and anti-poverty programs in the United States are delivered through the tax system. At Column, we're on a mission to make that system more accessible for all low-income Americans.

Column tax is building the infrastructure and APIs to power year-round income tax products for all mobile banking and fintech companies. Imagine the ability to do your taxes right inside your mobile banking app, for free!

🏔️ As a Founding Product Manager, you’ll have the opportunity to:

  • Directly impact the financial security of millions of Americans
  • Build product from scratch and set product direction
  • Make hiring decisions
  • Set our product principles and roadmap decisions
  • Shape our future culture
  • Work with our existing team & tech stack

💻 About you:

  • You can take extremely vague and complex problems and break them down into achievable milestones
  • You have great product sense, ability to analyze data, and execute
  • You are able to handle ambiguity & change
  • You are an execution-minded team player

⭐ Things we value:

  • Focus: we know that doing great work takes long blocks of uninterrupted time
  • Ownership: everyone at Column is empowered to make big decisions
  • Transparency: expect honest & vulnerable communication
  • Doing the right thing: Taxes is an industry with a history of predatory practices; we’re determined to fix that

☑️ What happens after you apply:

  • Intro call with one of the founders
  • Technical screen
  • Virtual half-day “onsite”: tell us about your previous work & values, see what working with us would be like, and solve a real technical challenge