Product Manager, Tax & Payout (Money Platform)

About the Team

The Money Platform team provides foundational financial services for a wide array of monetization activities at TikTok, including purchasing, settlement, payouts, wallet management, and taxation. These services are deeply integrated into various creator and merchant monetization flows, with emphasis on standardized, modular, and scalable products.

Role Overview

As a Product Manager specializing in Tax & Payout, you will be responsible for designing and delivering a robust tax operations platform that enables tax experts to conduct and manage taxation tasks efficiently, and with minimal dependence on engineering resources. Your mission will be to transform complex tax requirements into scalable, self-service backend solutions across diverse business scenarios.

Main Responsibilities

• Develop tools to support tax specialists in configuring and managing tax rates, rules, invoice templates, and tax-related APIs.
• Automate and streamline workflows for tax teams, minimizing manual engineering interventions in routine operation changes.
• Ensure rigorous access controls, approval chains, change management, and auditing mechanisms for all tax-related system modifications.
• Establish and oversee unified tax rate management across various entities, countries, business types, and legal frameworks, providing validation and exception-handling functionality.
• Lead the end-to-end product management cycle for tax-related APIs, collaborating with technical, tax, payments, and compliance teams to ensure effective and secure integrations.
• Design interfaces for creating, previewing, and releasing invoice templates relevant to a variety of global business contexts, ensuring compliance with both business and tax regulations.
• Convert nuanced tax calculation and invoice generation logic into maintainable system components and operating interfaces accessible to tax professionals.
• Engage cross-functionally with teams spanning tax, finance, legal, engineering, and operations, facilitating smooth delivery and ongoing support for all tax platform products.

Required Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience in product management for backend or operational platforms.
• Solid foundational understanding of tax processes and aptitude for detailed tax rule discussions with subject matter experts.
• Skilled in translating tax calculation logic, matching tax rates, and understanding settlement and invoicing impacts for product implementation.
• Competence in designing and managing tax data, rule configuration, version histories, validation, and audit mechanisms, especially across multiple countries or business scenarios.
• Familiarity with developing for professional user needs, emphasizing usability, accuracy, governance, and self-service configuration.

Preferred Qualifications

• Expertise in tax-oriented platforms such as tax rules engines, invoicing systems, and compliance toolsets.
• Past work in backend systems for legal, risk, finance, tax, or related operations domains.
• Experience supporting geographically distributed business models with complex compliance requirements.
• Exposure to monetization and content platforms, e-commerce, ad-driven revenue, and digital product ecosystems.
• Proven ability to collaborate with external partners including financial institutions and tax compliance services.
• Experience launching enterprise-grade tax or finance infrastructure from the ground up.

Working at TikTok

TikTok empowers creativity globally, encouraging diverse perspectives and inclusion throughout our worldwide offices. Our teams thrive on curiosity, humility, and a bold approach to tech innovation. We embrace diversity, equal opportunity, and foster an environment where every voice can contribute to both our products and culture.

Diversity & Inclusion

TikTok is dedicated to inclusive hiring and creating a diverse workplace that mirrors our far-reaching platform. We strive to ensure every employee is valued for their unique background and contributions.