Manager 3, Software Development (Tax Compliance)

Intuit, Inc.; Toronto; On-site; CAD 204,000 - 276,000; Full time

Job summary

Intuit, Inc. in Toronto is seeking a Manager 3, Software Development for the CG-PD Tax Development team. You will lead a group of managers and ICs, shape the technical direction, and drive end-to-end delivery for tax content and compliance systems.

The role requires deep tax domain knowledge, strong leadership, and a track record of architecting scalable platforms. You will mentor staff and collaborate with product, security, and operations to ensure reliable, compliant software.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in tax, accounting, or software development.
• Proven leadership experience, including managing other managers.
• Expert-level knowledge of US and/or Canadian tax law and compliance.
• Strong technical acumen with software development processes and architecture.

Responsibilities

• Leads a team of managers and/or individual contributors, setting strategic direction and ensuring timely delivery of complex projects.
• Drives performance and development of the team, fostering a culture of high performance and continuous learning.
• Mentors and develops senior talent, building leadership pipelines across the organization.
• Directs the team in analyzing and interpreting complex tax law and advises on tax strategy.
• Owns operational health: service reliability, latency, availability, incident response, and toil reduction.

Skills

People leadership

Software architecture

Agile methodologies

Tax knowledge

Strategic thinking

Communication

Customer-centric

Job description

Come join the CG-PD Tax Development team as a Manager 3, Software Development. CG-PD Tax Content delivers world class tax compliance and experiences to consumers and tax pros in the US and Canada to enable our users to file accurate and complete income tax returns.

Responsibilities

People Leadership

• Leads a team of managers and/or individual contributors, setting the team's strategic direction and ensuring timely delivery of complex projects.
• Drives the performance and development of the entire team, cultivating a culture of high performance and continuous learning.
• Mentors and develops senior talent, building a robust leadership pipeline and influencing talent management across the broader organization.

Technical Craft & Tax Expertise

• Directs the team in analyzing and interpreting the most complex and ambiguous areas of tax law, serving as a key advisor on tax strategy.
• Guides the architectural design of tax systems, ensuring solutions are scalable, resilient, and align with long-term business goals.
• Drives the adoption of advanced software engineering practices and operational excellence, setting the technical standards for the group.

Technical Ownership

• Set technical direction and architectural strategy for your capability areas in partnership with senior engineers and architects
• Own operational health: service reliability, latency, availability, incident response, on-call quality, and reduction of toil
• Drive down technical debt deliberately, balancing platform investment against feature delivery
• Ensure the correctness and auditability of accrual, balance, and compliance-sensitive logic, where errors have direct financial and legal consequences for customers
• Ensure systems meet Intuit standards for security, privacy, data governance, and multi-jurisdiction regulatory compliance
• Identify and apply opportunities to use AI and automation both in the product and in how the team builds

Execution Excellence

• Champions cross-functional collaboration to solve systemic problems and deliver on large-scale, multi-year initiatives.
• Leverages data and insights to shape the strategic priorities of the organization and remove critical roadblocks.
• Oversees the execution of a portfolio of projects, ensuring alignment with the company's strategic objectives and delivering end-to-end, customer-backed solutions.

Customer-Centric Outcomes & Team Acceleration

• Uses deep customer understanding and data to influence the product and technology roadmap for the entire business unit.
• Fosters a strong culture of innovation and experimentation, empowering the team to take calculated risks and pioneer new solutions.
• Scales team knowledge and impact by championing best practices, driving technical sessions, and mentoring across the organization.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in tax, accounting, or software development, with a deep understanding of the tax compliance lifecycle.
• Proven experience in people leadership, with a track record of managing and developing high-performing teams, including experience managing other managers.
• Expert-level knowledge of US and/or Canadian tax law and compliance, with the ability to interpret and apply complex and ambiguous regulations.
• Strong technical acumen with experience in software development processes, agile methodologies, and architectural design of complex systems.
• Demonstrated ability to think strategically, with experience in shaping organizational priorities, driving large-scale initiatives, and influencing product and technology roadmaps.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to influence and align stakeholders across all levels of the organization.
• A passion for innovation and customer-centricity, with a history of fostering a culture of experimentation and continuous improvement.

Intuit provides a competitive compensation package with a strong pay for performance rewards approach. This position may be eligible for a cash bonus, equity rewards and benefits, in accordance with our applicable plans and programs (see more about our compensation and benefits at Intuit®: Careers | Benefits). Pay offered is based on factors such as job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and work location. To drive ongoing fair pay for employees, Intuit conducts regular comparisons across categories of ethnicity and gender.

The expected base pay range for this position is:
Toronto $203,500 - $275,500