Senior Manager, Tax

• Lead the direction and execution of complex tax technology, data, and transformation programs and projects, from discovery through delivery and operational adoption.
• Partner with tax and cross-functional teams to understand business needs, evaluate requirements, define outcomes, and translate priorities into actionable roadmaps, plans, and delivery decisions.
• Coordinate stakeholders, dependencies, milestones, and decision points across tax, finance, technology, product, engineering, operations, and external partners to maintain alignment and momentum.
• Establish program governance, operating rhythms, status reporting, and success measures that provide leaders with a clear view of progress, risks, issues, assumptions, and dependencies.
• Communicate risks, delays, tradeoffs, and recommended actions to executive leadership and stakeholders in a concise, timely, and decision-oriented manner.
• Identify opportunities to simplify work, improve controls, remove friction, and increase efficiency across existing processes, tools, and operating models; lead practical improvements through implementation.
• Support budget planning and ongoing financial management by developing metrics, forecasts, and business insights that explain budget needs, surplus, deficits, and corrective actions.
• Use data and stakeholder input to measure outcomes, surface trends, and support prioritization across a portfolio of initiatives, including work with global and geographically distributed partners.
• Take initiative to identify emerging needs, resolve ambiguity, and move work forward with appropriate judgment, accountability, and limited direction.
• Build trusted relationships and influence without authority while fostering collaboration, transparency, and shared ownership across teams.
• Coach and support team members and partners in effective program, project, change, and stakeholder management practices.

What you'll bring

• Significant experience leading enterprise programs, complex projects, product initiatives, or transformation work across multiple functions and stakeholder groups.
• Demonstrated ability to turn ambiguous business needs and partner requirements into clear priorities, plans, decisions, and measurable outcomes.
• Strong executive communication skills, including the ability to present concise status, metrics, risks, delays, tradeoffs, and recommendations to senior leaders.
• Experience managing roadmaps, dependencies, governance, delivery risks, issue resolution, and change adoption across a portfolio of work.
• Strong financial and analytical capability, including experience with budgets, forecasts, performance metrics, variance analysis, and data-informed decision-making.
• A continuous-improvement mindset with a record of finding efficiencies, strengthening processes, and delivering practical solutions that scale.
• Ability to build credibility and influence across tax, finance, technology, product, engineering, operations, and external partner organizations.
• Self-starter who takes ownership, operates effectively in ambiguity, follows through on commitments, and knows when to escalate decisions or risks.
• Experience with tax, tax technology, financial systems, data, or enterprise software implementation is helpful; direct tax research or tax planning experience is not the primary focus of this role.
• Excellent written, verbal, organizational, and relationship-management skills, with the ability to work effectively across domestic and global teams.