Product Owner (Tax Systems)

Clark Associates; United States; Presencial; USD 90.000 - 120.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Clark Associates, Inc. is seeking a Product Owner to work with the software development team and business stakeholders to plan, prioritize, and execute tax-related software projects.

The role focuses on backlog maintenance, requirements gathering, and ensuring alignment with business objectives across Vertex O Series and integrated systems. The ideal candidate has product owner experience and can fluently communicate with tax stakeholders and development teams to drive tax automation and

Formación

• Product owner experience required.
• Ability to communicate fluently with tax stakeholders and development teams.

Responsabilidades

• Own and maintain the Tax system backlog in Azure DevOps (ADO).
• Interpret stakeholder and organizational needs into concise work items for the team.
• Support, troubleshoot, and maintain Vertex O Series indirect tax platform.
• Optimize Vertex integrations with ERP systems, APIs, and internal apps.
• Explain the 'what' and 'why' behind work items during refinement and sizing.
• Improve product knowledge by tracking legislation changes and updating the roadmap.
• Develop relationships with tech-BA and dev teams to close gaps.
• Prioritize and organize backlog for transparency and timely delivery.
• Contribute to product roadmap with priority-setting and vision discussions.
• Test completed items for quality and compliance with Acceptance Criteria.
• Coordinate releases with stakeholders and serve as primary contact for roadmap meetings and demos.
• Attend daily/weekly dev meetings and contribute constructively.

Conocimientos

Product Owner experience

Herramientas

Azure DevOps

Descripción del empleo

Job Summary

The Product Owner works closely with their software development team and business stakeholders to support the planning, prioritization, and execution of software development projects. The Product Owner is responsible for maintaining product backlogs, gathering requirements, and ensuring alignment with business objectives. This role emphasizes learning and growth, enabling the PO to develop a strong understanding of product development processes, team dynamics, and the impact of their software domain on the broader business.

This specific Product Owner role will work directly with our Tax systems owning the products used to calculate and apply sales tax, issue exemptions, and more across multiple environments. They will specifically work with Vertex O Series and our internal systems integrated with Vertex. The ideal candidate has product owner experience and can speak fluently to both tax stakeholders and development teams.

Responsibilities

• Own and maintain the Tax system backlog in Azure DevOps (ADO), developing a foundational understanding of all active work items.
• Interpret stakeholder and organizational needs, translating them into concise work items for the development team (bugs, PBIs, features, and research spikes).
• Support, troubleshoot, and maintain the Vertex O Series indirect tax platform to ensure accurate tax calculation across our e-commerce, marketplace, and point-of-sale environments.
• Optimize Vertex integrations with our ERP systems, APIs, and other internal applications to improve tax automation and compliance.
• Understands and can explain the 'what' and 'why' behind work items to participate in refinement and sizing during team discussions.
• Actively takes steps to improve product knowledge by tracking legislation changes and ensuring the roadmap reflects rate/rule/compliance changes to support stakeholders and the business.
• Develop a strong working relationship with technical-BA and dev team to close any gaps on the technical side.
• Collaborate with team members to prioritize and organize the backlog for transparency and timely completion of valuable work items.
• Support the development of a product roadmap by contributing to priority-setting and vision discussions.
• Testing completed items to ensure quality and compliance with Acceptance Criteria and assist in coordinating smooth releases with stakeholders.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for stakeholders running roadmap meetings, demos, release communications, answering questions, and troubleshooting bugs.
• Attend daily and weekly development meetings, adhering to the team’s working agreement and contributing constructively.