Product Manager, Tax and Compliance

Square Staff represents a suite of labor management, payroll, and communications tools that enable sellers and their teams to thrive together. Now more than ever, as the economy reopens and employers seek to rehire, they need to search for ways to support and provide value for their staff and for their business. At Square Payroll, we help employers pay their teams and file their taxes, so they can spend more time focused on running their business. Behind the scenes, we have a team of tax experts who help ensure taxes are filed and paid, accurately and timely.

We are looking for a product manager who is excited about helping scale our taxes without compromising our quality and customer experience. As a Product Manager for Filings and Compliance, you will be responsible for ensuring that our tax system can scale and move quickly while ensuring we are compliant.

In this role, you will lead initiatives to scale systems that help us file and pay our employer's taxes, from the engineering architecture to integrate with over 300 state agencies to building self serve tools for our internal teams. Your work is deeply critical to ensuring our business scales to handle more complex and growing businesses. You will collaborate closely with our compliance teams to understand legal requirements and translate them into seller experiences. With design and data teams, you will help us identify and deliver the initiatives, processes, and products that ensure we provide a world-class tax experience.

You Will:

• Lead product strategy for a complex and high-growth engineering space: Your north star is to achieve 100% of compliance, 100% of the time within Square Payroll.
• Define a strategy to increase engineering velocity in adding new taxes
• Define an architecture strategy to reduce the ongoing maintenance cost of our filings system through technical investments and operations tooling
• Identify areas of opportunity and develop 12-18 month roadmaps
• Thoughtfully define and communicate project goals, requirements, and constraints
• Manage products with autonomy throughout their lifecycle, from ideation to planning, execution, and launch
• Collaborate cross-functionally with almost every other function in Square: Engineering, Design, Data Science, Operations, Legal, Compliance, and Risk

• 5+ years of product management responsibilities
• Experience working in highly regulated spaces and partnering with compliance
• Experience working with complex technical systems and managing external integrations
• Collaborative approach: Track record of working with cross-functional teams
• Entrepreneurial spirit: You're a self-starter and get things across the finish line
• Analytical skills: You have a data-driven learning style and can be self-serviced
• Excitement: You're passionate about Square's mission and new technology

We’re working to build a more inclusive economy where our customers have equal access to opportunity, and we strive to live by these same values in building our workplace. Block is a proud equal opportunity employer. We work hard to evaluate all employees and job applicants consistently, without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, pregnancy, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other legally protected class. 

We believe in being fair, and are committed to an inclusive interview experience, including providing reasonable accommodations to disabled applicants throughout the recruitment process. We encourage applicants to share any needed accommodations with their recruiter, who will treat these requests as confidentially as possible. Want to learn more about what we’re doing to build a workplace that is fair and square? Check out our I+D page. 

Additionally, we consider qualified applicants with criminal histories for employment on our team, and always assess candidates on an individualized basis.

Perks

We want you to be well and thrive. Our global benefits package includes:

• Healthcare coverage
• Retirement Plans
• Employee Stock Purchase Program
• Wellness perks
• Paid parental leave
• Paid time off
• Learning and Development resources

Block, Inc. (NYSE: SQ) is a global technology company with a focus on financial services. Made up of Square, Cash App, Spiral, TIDAL, and TBD, we build tools to help more people access the economy. Square helps sellers run and grow their businesses with its integrated ecosystem of commerce solutions, business software, and banking services. With Cash App, anyone can easily send, spend, or invest their money in stocks or Bitcoin. Spiral (formerly Square Crypto) builds and funds free, open-source Bitcoin projects. Artists use TIDAL to help them succeed as entrepreneurs and connect more deeply with fans. TBD is building an open developer platform to make it easier to access Bitcoin and other blockchain technologies without having to go through an institution.