Founding Product Manager

🚀 Founding Product Lead – LedgerPro (AI Native Accounting Platform)

Own the product. Champion the customer. Decide what we build next.

Who We Are

We're building LedgerPro (ledgerpro.ai · ledger.lk · ledger.co.id) — the Cursor / Claude Code for accounting firms.

Accounting firms are facing the same shift software companies already went through: value is moving from the mechanical work (bookkeeping, tax/audit prep, regulatory filings) to the value-added work (interpretation, consultation, customer relationship management). Firms that embrace this will thrive. Firms that don't will struggle to justify their fees.

That shift is landing on top of brutal headwinds already hitting the profession — fewer young people entering it, firm owners looking to retire, more back-office work offshored every year, and PE-backed consolidation accelerating.

The legacy software firms lean on is bloated, slow to adapt, has bolted-on AI that's either prohibitively expensive or embarrassingly inaccurate, and gets 10-20% more expensive every year.

We're AI-first, affordable, and built with local compliance baked in — live in Sri Lanka, launching soon in the UK 🇬🇧, Indonesia 🇮🇩, and Canada 🇨🇦.

We're owning the full stack: from the bookkeeping/ledger layer (replacing Intuit QuickBooks / Xero) to practice management, to tax/audit/filing prep. One tool. One source of truth. One low price.

We've proven people will pay. The question now is what to build next, in what order, and why. That's where you come in.

The Jaffna/Kilinochchi corridor is rapidly emerging as a growing tech hub — strong engineering talent, excellent connectivity, and a base for building global SaaS products.

🧠 Who You Are

You're a product-owner personality — someone who runs toward ambiguity and turns it into a ranked, defensible backlog.

You love:

• talking to customers and watching them use the product
• sitting in on sales calls and turning objections into roadmap
• writing crisp specs and acceptance criteria
• ruthlessly prioritizing — saying "not yet," with a reason
• working shoulder-to-shoulder with engineers
• measuring whether shipped features actually get used

You might be early in your career with strong fundamentals and insane drive, or you may have several years of product, business analysis, consulting, or accounting-domain experience. What matters is that you want to own the backlog end-to-end — every item on it traceable to a customer need, ranked with a rationale you can defend.

And you're willing to build something meaningful from the North and East.

🚀 What You'll Do (Product Leadership)

Months 0–1 — Learn & Absorb

• Master the product: every workflow from invoicing to bank reconciliation to reporting, and how AI fits into each
• Shadow sales calls and onboarding sessions; meet our paying customers
• Take ownership of the existing backlog: triage, consolidate, rank

Months 2–6 — Own the Backlog

• Run weekly, structured customer feedback loops
• Consolidate input from the founder, sales, and support into one prioritized roadmap
• Write specs engineers can build from without a second meeting
• Be the voice of the customer in every engineering discussion — and the voice of engineering constraints back to sales

Months 7–12 — Drive the Roadmap

• Own release planning across our expanding footprint — bookkeeping, practice management, tax/audit prep — and our new-market launches
• Define and track adoption metrics for every shipped feature
• Kill or rescope features that aren't earning their place
• Build the competitive picture: know Xero and QuickBooks better than their own PMs do

Months 13–18 — Scale the Product Function

• Establish product rituals that outlive you: discovery, triage, launch reviews
• Grow into the product half of the leadership team as we expand into new markets

✔️ Must-Have Qualifications

• Strong communication & customer-facing skills
• Structured thinking: can turn messy stakeholder input into a ranked backlog
• Comfortable interviewing customers and running feedback sessions
• Accounting, bookkeeping, or finance-domain knowledge — or hands-on exposure to Xero / QuickBooks
• Interest in or exposure to AI-native tools and workflows
• Works fluently with engineers — you don't need to code, but you can't be afraid of technical detail
• Ownership mentality and bias toward action
• Legally able to work in Sri Lanka, and able to work from our Jaffna (town) or Kilinochchi (Ariviyal Nagar) offices 4 days/week
• English and Tamil fluency

⭐ Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in B2B SaaS product management, business analysis, or consulting
• Experience writing specs or user stories and working directly with development teams
• Customer discovery or UX research experience
• Fluency in one or more of: Sinhala, Bahasa Indonesia, French (Canada)

💼 What We Offer

• Competitive career growth
• Meaningful founding-team equity
• A live product with real revenue — your decisions ship to paying customers
• Direct access to the founder, the engineering team, and GTM support
• A path to leading product as we scale into the UK, Indonesia, Canada, and beyond

Industry: Software Development

Employment Type: Full-time