Manager, Tax Technology — DoorDash Tax Platform & Business Projects

The role

You will lead tax platform and business projects on the DoorDash platform. This involves translating business and tax requirements into functional system requirements and managing end-to-end delivery of tax features and new launches.

What you will do

• Lead tax platform and business projects including new vertical, merchant, and product launches.
• Gather business and tax requirements and translate them into functional system requirements for the Vertex CoE.
• Review BRDs, PRDs, and TDDs for tax-system implications.
• Define testing requirements and oversee test validations across multiple phases.
• Trace tax-relevant data from upstream systems through Vertex to downstream reporting.
• Validate operational and system readiness for production releases.
• Serve as a functional bridge between non-tax tech stakeholders and technical tax technology teams.
• Lead and develop the offshore team by allocating workload and providing knowledge transfer.

Required qualifications

• 6+ years of indirect tax or indirect tax technology experience.
• Well versed in US sales and use tax, Canada GST/HST/PST, and Australia and New Zealand GST.
• Experience in food and beverage and retail tax context.
• Experience implementing or configuring Vertex O Series or a similar tax engine.
• Ability to translate business and tax requirements into functional system requirements and review design documents.
• Direct engagement with engineering teams on product development.
• Understanding of how tax data flows from upstream transaction systems through a tax engine to downstream reporting systems.
• Project management experience including project charter, plans, milestones, gantt charts, RAID log, and timelines.
• Experience with Microsoft Office and Google Sheets, Docs, and Slides.
• Experience in use of Alteryx and API testing tools like Postman, SOAP UI and ability to read XML and JSON logs.
• Accounting, Finance, Information Technology, or Computer Science degree.
• Fluent in leveraging multiple AI tools on the market on a daily basis.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with Marketplace Facilitator laws.
• Experience with Snowflake, SQL and data reconciliation tools.
• Demonstrated people-leadership or team-lead experience, including coaching, workload delegation, and quality oversight.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits and perks

About the company

DoorDash is a technology and logistics company that started by enabling door-to-door delivery. The company is growing rapidly and aims to be a company people turn to for any and all goods.