About the position
Amazon is looking for a Product Manager to join its Tax Department's Indirect Tax Calculation – Tax Engine team. This team operates in a dynamic and fast-paced environment, striving to ensure Amazon's tax technology and processes are accurate and adaptable to a changing business landscape. In this role, you will play a pivotal part in driving the development and success of our indirect tax calculation products. You will be responsible for providing technical product requirements documents, collaborating with software and business teams throughout the entire project lifecycle –from design-to-delivery, manage tax related queries, and ensuring the delivery of high-impact solutions that meet customer needs and drive business growth. You will also be/become a subject matter expert in tax technology trends and challenges, leveraging this expertise to add value to our customers and differentiate our solutions in the marketplace. Future growth opportunities to take on different types of projects and programs over time are possible within the scope of this team.
Responsibilities
- Help develop and evolve indirect tax technology, processes, services, features, and operations.
- Respond to new or changing tax legislative/compliance and business needs.
- Drive the end-to-end project lifecycle required to adapt or enhance indirect tax collection capabilities.
- Partner closely with cross functional teams to gather business and tax requirements.
- Convert requirements into product specifications and collaborate with software and business teams.
- Engage through the entire lifecycle of projects – from design-to-delivery.
- Meet with tax, business, and software teams to understand their goals and identify indirect tax implications.
- Develop product functional and user experience requirements, feature specifications, and standard operating procedures.
- Participate in projects throughout their lifecycle to ensure requirements are met.
- Provide indirect tax calculation and collection super subject matter expertise to various internal and external personas.
Requirements
- 3+ years of product management experience.
- Experience managing technical products or online services.
- Experience in product, program, or project management in leading cross-functional teams.
- 3+ years of experience in tax, finance, or a related analytical field.
- Experience implementing and maintaining indirect tax calculation software products such as Vertex, Avalara, ONESOURCE, TaxJar, Systax, or Synchro.
- Deep understanding of tax concepts in subject matter area(s).
Nice-to-haves
- Knowledge of SQL and VBA at an advanced level.
- Experience building and analyzing cost/benefit scenarios and business cases.
Benefits
- Full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits.
- Equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package.
