Tax Platform Manager

The role

You will lead tax platform and business projects on the DoorDash platform. This includes managing new integrations, translating tax requirements into functional system requirements, and leading an offshore team.

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 across 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.
• Ability to read XML and JSON logs.
• Accounting, Finance, Information Technology, or Computer Science degree.

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.

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.