Senior Product Manager - Tax Engine, Tax Engine Business
One byproduct of that mission entails becoming one of the world’s largest collectors of online indirect taxes and fees – including US sales taxes, EU value-added taxes, and other global transaction taxes. The Tax Engine Business Team ensures that Amazon has the right technology and processes to calculate, collect and invoice those taxes accurately in a rapidly changing business and tax environment.
Additionally the team also supports continued business growth and innovation by providing world-class services to millions of our customers and Selling Partners all over the world.
The Amazon Marketplace is a critical part of the Amazon ecosystem which offers millions of sellers the opportunity to build and grow their business using Amazon’s reach and expertise. Regulatory compliance within the European Union (EU) and Great Britain (GB) is critical for businesses operating in these regions, understanding and adhering to these regulatory frameworks is crucial to enhance product safety, Customer trust and contributing towards environmental responsibility.
Amazon is looking for experienced product managers and/or tax professionals with an interest and aptitude for solving complex and impactful indirect tax collection challenges. As a Senior Product Manager you will help develop and evolve our indirect tax technology, processes, services, features, and operations.You will be expected to respond to new or changing Regulatory compliance legislation and business needs, and drive the end-to-end product development required to adapt or enhance our tax product capabilities to meet those needs. You will partner closely with cross functional teams across nearly all of Amazon to gather business and tax requirements, convert those requirements into product specifications, collaborate with software and business teams, and continue to engage through the entire lifecycle of our projects – from design-to-delivery.
Key job responsibilities
This role will support executing the product vision and associated features for the "Regulatory & Environmental Compliance" product portfolio in Tax Engine. As a Sr. Product Manager on the team, you will understand the product vision, strategy, requirements and roadmap for this portfolio.You will create consensus with both internal and external teams like software engineering, design, business, compliance, legal, public policy and tax. You will develop an in-depth understanding of the business and tax/legal guidance, champion the needs of the customers and dive deep on technology and operational implications of the products you own.
"Regulatory & Environmental Compliance" is part of the overall Tax Engine Business product suite and involves interactions and prioritization of features and functions both internally within Tax Engine but also with key business and tech partners.
A day in the life- You are the right person for this role if you are customer obsessed, a self-starter, a natural problem solver, a strong communicator and have a passion for delivering high quality work. You are excited about the positive impact Environmental Regulations on Amazon can have for Sellers and thrive in a fast-paced and entrepreneurial environment, unhindered by ambiguity or multiple competing priorities.
- Meeting with tax, business, and software teams to understand their objectives and identify the associated indirect tax calculation and collection implications. Identifying the required technical, process and operational changes to support those objectives. Developing product functional and user experience requirements, feature specifications, and standard operating procedures.
- Actively participating in projects throughout their lifecycle to ensure that the requirements are met – to include making tax rules configurations, specifying and reviewing test cases, troubleshooting issues, and ensuring alignment across teams. Including, communicate product releases, impact and timelines to leaders and stakeholders
- Understanding your customers (consumers, sellers, taxing authorities, and Amazon internal teams) to ensure that our product development consistently meets the objectives and experience expectations of our customers. Developing long term product strategies and associated product roadmaps – seeking consensus to prioritize those strategies, documenting trade-offs, and removing obstacles as necessary.
- Providing general indirect tax calculation and collection super subject matter expertise to internal and external partners – including legal, customer service, public policy groups, media relations, business development, tax software vendors and service providers, taxing authorities and other governmental entities, and industry and tax groups.- Bachelor's degree or equivalent
- Experience owning/driving roadmap strategy and definition
- Experience with end to end product delivery
- Experience with feature delivery and tradeoffs of a product
- Experience as a product manager or owner
- Experience owning technology products
- Experience with product cycles of 6+ months
- Experience in product or program management, product marketing, business development or technology- Experience in influencing senior leadership through data driven insights
- Experience working across functional teams and senior stakeholders
- Working knowledge of indirect taxes – including US sales taxes, EU value-added taxes and other global transaction taxes, regulatory and environment compliance impacting e-commerce industry.
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