Imagine being at the forefront of revolutionizing the tax industry with cutting-edge technologies. As a Principal Product Manager – Technical in the FinTech Tax Technology team, you will have the opportunity to shape the future of tax products and solutions that empower businesses and individuals to navigate the ever-evolving landscape of tax regulations and compliance requirements.
In this pivotal role, you will be responsible for driving the product strategy, technical roadmap, and delivery of our innovative tax product suite. You will work closely with cross-functional teams, including engineering, design, and subject matter experts, to translate complex tax requirements into robust, scalable, and secure software solutions and ensure our products meet the evolving needs of our customers and comply with complex tax regulations.
Join our team and be part of a dynamic, forward-thinking organization that values excellence, collaboration, and a passion for leveraging technology to simplify the complexities of tax.
Key job responsibilities
As a Principal Product Manager - Tech, you will lead new, large product initiatives to define the long-term strategy and vision to meet emerging customer needs and tax regulations. You will handle complex product development and business management scenarios, proactively identifying gaps/opportunities to then develop a suite of products to solve the problems.
• Define product strategy, roadmap, and vision for tax product portfolio, while contributing to the technical design of new product features.
• Capture and translate complex tax requirements, regulations, and customer needs into technical specifications, user stories, and innovative user experiences
• Drive alignment across cross-functional teams and tax leadership on product feature, business, and strategies
• Manage end-to-end product development lifecycle
• Build, maintain, and communicate comprehensive product launch plans, tracking deliverables, milestones, risks, and bottlenecks
• Own customer engagement and communication for product updates
• Establish KPIs, identify gaps, and drive continuous improvement of product performance
• Provide mentorship to other product managers on the team
About the team
The Finance Technology Tax team builds technology to support Amazon’s global tax teams (our customers). Our customers need to ensure that Amazon is compliant with the increasingly complex tax regulations. We build systems to enable our customers to perform tax functions including, calculations, payments, filing, tax audits, and recovery at the scale demanded by Amazon’s business operations. We prioritize solutions based on our ability to deliver exponential value in the following four dimensions: 1) supporting business growth while reducing cost to serve 2) ensuring compliance and reducing risk 3) improving customer experience, and 4) providing accurate, complete, and timely data.
- 10+ years of customer-facing product development and product management experience
- Experience leading engineering discussions around technology decisions and strategy related to a product
- Experience with feature delivery and tradeoffs of a product
- Experience owning/driving roadmap strategy and definition
- Experience leading cross-organizational programs and setting and holding teams and individuals to timelines and deliverables without explicit authority
- Experience working with and influencing senior level stakeholders
- Bachelor's degree
- Knowledge of tax compliance
- Masters in Business Administration (MBA)
- Experience with conceptualizing complex interrelated applications and technical platforms, as well as the ability to communicate technical concepts to non-technical team members and business partners
- Entrepreneurial and inventive spirit, with track record of delivering results in fast-moving environments
- Strong relationships building skills; experience managing stakeholders and partners to drive cross functional programs
- Ability to communicate clearly and effectively with different functional groups, developers, business owners, and senior business leaders
- Experience in Agile/SCRUM enterprise-scale software developmen
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