Product Manager, Tax & Payout (Money Platform) - TikTok LIVE

Role overview

This position sits within the Money Platform team, which powers creator monetisation and commercialisation across TikTok through financial service capabilities such as catalog, purchasing, clearing and settlement, payouts, wallets, and tax. The team focuses on building standardised, reusable, and scalable platform solutions that can support multiple business scenarios across end-to-end money flows.

The role is centered on leading the development of a tax operations platform for creator and merchant monetization use cases. The goal is to give tax specialists a reliable, configurable, and auditable self-service backend, while reducing dependence on ad hoc engineering support. A solid understanding of international payments is required as background context, especially around transactions, settlement, payouts, currencies, legal entities, and market-specific differences.

What you will do

• Create backend tools that allow tax specialists to manage tax rates, tax rules, tax APIs, invoice templates, and invoice generation without heavy engineering support.
• Build controlled workflows for access rights, approvals, change history, versioning, and auditability so configuration updates remain traceable and reversible.
• Design the maintenance model for unified tax rate tables across dimensions such as country or region, business type, transaction scenario, legal entity, tax category, tax rate, and effective date.
• Enable tax teams to add, edit, deactivate, search, and validate tax rate setups independently, while reducing manual coordination.
• Define product behavior for tax-related APIs, including tax calculation, tax filing, tax identity data, invoice generation, and tax certificates.
• Specify API inputs, outputs, invocation timing, status changes, failure handling, retry logic, and alerting for exceptions.
• Work with engineering, finance/tax systems, and external compliance partners to deliver stable API capabilities and support troubleshooting and future expansion.
• Design invoice template configuration and generation interfaces, including fields, layout, country or region applicability, entity details, and tax information.
• Support template preview, testing, version control, release flows, and issue resolution so invoice output stays aligned with business and compliance needs.
• Translate tax calculation logic into product requirements, covering taxable base, rate matching, withholding tax, exemptions, rounding, currency conversion, and effective dates.
• Convert invoice rules into executable workflows across fields, validations, statuses, templates, and release processes.
• Collaborate across tax, finance, legal/compliance, payments, engineering, operations, and business teams to clarify requirements, review solutions, launch, and support live operations.
• Identify blockers, risks, and dependencies, and drive resolution to keep tax platform delivery on track.
• Develop reusable product patterns, operating guidance, configuration standards, and change processes to improve self-service efficiency for tax teams.

Requirements

• Background in product management, ideally across backend systems, operations platforms, configuration tools, rule-based systems, or enterprise software.
• Working knowledge of tax concepts and the ability to discuss detailed requirements with tax stakeholders.
• Capability to translate tax calculation logic, rate-matching behavior, effective dates, and settlement or invoicing impacts into product design.
• Ability to convert invoice-generation rules into product functionality such as templates, fields, validations, preview, release, and exception handling.
• Experience designing for professional users with strong attention to usability, accuracy, governance, access control, and auditability.
• Understanding of configurable product architecture, including data models, versioning, validation, effective-date handling, rollback, and logs.
• Ability to design data-maintenance workflows for complex tax rate structures across multiple countries, tax types, and business scenarios.
• International payments knowledge is needed as foundational context for understanding transaction and payout flows.

Preferred background

• Experience with tax products or adjacent areas such as tax rules platforms, invoicing, tax filing, withholding tax, or merchant tax identity systems.
• Exposure to building backend tools or configuration platforms for tax, finance, legal, risk, or operations users.
• Hands-on experience with invoice template setup, document generation, rule engines, approval flows, versioning, or audit logs.
• Experience supporting businesses that operate across multiple countries or regions, including differences in tax, invoicing, payments, or compliance.
• Familiarity with creator economy, content platforms, e-commerce, livestreaming, advertising monetization, subscriptions, in-app purchases, or virtual goods.
• Experience working with external tax compliance partners, banks, payment institutions, or PSPs.
• Experience building tax operations platforms, finance or tax backend systems, or fund middle-platform capabilities from the ground up.

About TikTok

TikTok is a leading short-form video platform with a mission to inspire creativity and bring joy. Its global headquarters are in Los Angeles and Singapore, and it also operates in cities including New York, London, Dublin, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Jakarta, Seoul, and Tokyo.

Why join TikTok

The company emphasizes curiosity, humility, impact, resilience, and continuous iteration. Teams work in a fast-moving environment with an “Always Day 1” mindset, aiming to create meaningful breakthroughs for users and communities.

Diversity and inclusion

TikTok states a commitment to building an inclusive workplace where people are valued for their skills, experiences, and perspectives, and where the team reflects the global communities it serves.