Manager, Product Insights

About the Role

Product Insights serves as the bridge between customer reality and product strategy, transforming customer signals into actionable insights that improve H&R Block's products and experiences.

As the Manager of Product Insights, you will lead the strategy, development, and performance of the Product Insights function across Customer Care's product portfolios. You will lead a team responsible for converting customer and support intelligence into product strategy, portfolio priorities, and measurable customer and business outcomes.

 

Reporting to the Director, Support Strategy & Product Insights, you will help define the function's strategic direction, govern its portfolio of product opportunities, and serve as an advisor to Product and Customer Care leadership. You will establish the mechanisms through which customer evidence informs roadmap planning, investment decisions, release strategies, and customer experience outcomes. Success in this role is measured by product decisions influenced, customer problems resolved, support demand reduced, and measurable business outcomes achieved.

 

Day-to-day, you’ll...

• Lead, develop, and inspire a high-performing team of Product Insights ICs aligned to key product portfolios, building a culture grounded in customer advocacy, evidence-based decision making, and accountability.
• Set the strategy and lead the evolution of the Product Insights function by transforming customer feedback, support interactions, operational data, and sentiment signals into prioritized recommendations that influence product strategy and roadmap decisions.
• Own the Product Insights opportunity portfolio across Customer Care, making prioritization and resource trade-offs based on customer impact, support demand, business value, strategic alignment, and expected outcomes.
• Establish and maintain repeatable mechanisms for surfacing customer issues, emerging trends, and product opportunities to Product leaders through recurring reviews, reporting, and stakeholder engagement.
• Design, implement, and govern recurring Product Insights operating rhythms including weekly insights reviews, monthly product performance reviews, quarterly product planning inputs, and executive product insights reviews.
• Own the intake, prioritization, and tracking process for customer-driven product insights and known issues, making sure there is clear ownership, visibility, with measurable outcomes.
• Shape the customer and support impact strategy for significant launches and product changes, ensuring risk, support demand, measurement plans, and customer outcomes inform release decisions.
• Serve as a strategic advisor to Product Directors, Group Product Managers, and Customer Care leadership, bringing customer and support intelligence into roadmap planning, prioritization, release decisions, and investment discussions.
• Lead Product Insights participation in quarterly and annual planning processes, ensuring customer and support priorities are represented in portfolio-level decision making.
• Define and manage the Product Insights performance framework, including customer experience improvement, contact-driver reduction, support cost reduction, and product influence outcomes.
• Identify systemic customer support challenges that span individual product areas, build enterprise level recommendations, and align stakeholders around strategic opportunities for improvement.
• Align Product, Customer Care, Data Science & Analytics, and Operational leaders around the highest-value customer opportunities, resolving competing priorities and securing ownership for recommended actions.

Required Qualifications

• A BS/BA in a related field or an equivalent combination of education and experience

• 8+ years of experience across customer support, product management, product operations, and/or strategy functions, including 3 years leading and developing people 

• Exceptional analytical skills with the ability to identify patterns, synthesize complex customer and operational data, and translate findings into actionable recommendations

• Strong customer advocacy mindset with a demonstrated belief that the customer’s voice should be represented in every product decision 

• Demonstrated success managing complex product portfolios, setting priorities across competing opportunities, and making resource allocation trade-offs 

• Strong understanding of product strategy, roadmap planning, prioritization frameworks, customer discovery, and outcome measurement 

• Strong judgment and ownership mindset with the ability to navigate ambiguity, balance competing priorities, and drive outcomes through influence, collaboration, and execution

• Experience building or scaling Voice of the Customer programs, including defining feedback inputs, establishing stakeholder cadences, and demonstrating measurable business or product impact 

• Proven ability to influence Director and VP-level stakeholders through evidence, credibility, and relationship-building, not authority 

• Exceptional written, oral, and interpersonal communication skills. Strong presentation abilities to effectively communicate with and influence a wide range of audiences at all levels of the organization

Why work for us

At H&R Block, our purpose is simple: to provide help and inspire confidence in our clients and communities everywhere. For more than 70 years, we’ve led the tax industry and we continue to evolve through our Block Next strategy, blending human expertise with digital innovation. That same commitment to care extends to our associates. When you join us, you become part of a High Performing, Connected Culture built on strong relationships, continuous learning, and a shared commitment to making a meaningful impact. We invest in your well-being through competitive pay, comprehensive benefits, and support for life both in and outside of work.

Pay Range Information

The pay range for this position is listed below. Local minimum wage laws apply. This information is posted pursuant to local requirements to provide applicants with information about what they might be eligible to receive. Individual pay decisions will depend on job-related factors such as experience, education, skill, performance, and geographic location where work will be performed. Successful candidates may be able to participate in one or more incentive compensation or short-term incentive plans, which could generate additional earnings in accordance with the terms of each plan. Qualifying associates can enroll themselves and/or their eligible dependents in medical and prescription drug coverage; can participate in the H&R Block Retirement Savings Plan (401(k) Plan), the Employee Assistance Program, (virtual) fitness center programs, and the associate discount program; are automatically enrolled in Business Travel Accident Insurance; and receive Associate Tax Prep benefit.

Pay Range

$109,800.00 - $175,700.00/Yr.