Senior Product Manager, Financial Systems
Product & Customer Experience | Job ID 2434111JOB SUMMARY
Good storytelling starts with great listening. At Audible, that means each role and every project has our audience in mind. Because the same people who design, develop, and deploy our products also happen to use them. To us, that speak volumes.
ABOUT THIS ROLE
Audible is seeking a Senior Product Manager, Financial Systems to define and build key technologies, tools, and services that form the foundation of financial reconciliation, accounting, tax at Audible. As part of the Financial Systems Platform team you will partner closely with finance partners, Amazon, and Audible teams to define the roadmap for the core services that power the Audible’s financial reconciliation and regulatory reporting. The Senior Product Manager, Financial Systems is an individual contributor role. They will contribute to the product strategy, roadmap, and continuous improvement of its global revenue, financial management, and tax systems. They will be responsible for partnering with Audible Technical Leads (SDE3s) and Software Development Managers to define the product roadmap for and oversee initiatives in Audible’s Financial Systems.
ABOUT THE TEAM
This team’s expansive scope covers all of the systems within Audible and Amazon that are leveraged for financial management and tax compliance. A team of dedicated engineers works alongside of other engineering teams across Audible and Amazon to enhance and build systems to continuously scale Audible’s global customer reach. This team works across functions, with critical guidance from accounting and tax professionals in both companies. Your success will directly benefit both Audible’s millions of listeners, as well as creators across the globe. In addition, you’ll gain direct insight into one of the world’s largest retailers, as you work closely with Amazon partners to leverage the best of Amazon’s technology and infrastructure.
ABOUT YOU
You communicate complex ideas in a simple, concise, and clear manner, with an ability to lead even in the face of ambiguity, including the authoring of detailed technical requirements. You have a proven history of managing a product roadmap, managing prioritization and trade-offs of short-term value and long-term strategic goals. You have a track record of driving decisions with data and analytics with applied judgment when data is ambiguous or absent. You have experience with building systems, reporting, and services for financial organizations. You have an ability to understand software systems and make meaningful contributions to software architecture decisions. You have deep knowledge of revenue reconciliation, the financial close process, and taxation. You are detail-oriented, ambitious, and a self-starter.
As a Senior Product Manager, Financial Systems, you will...
- Help drive the product strategy and vision for Audible’s Fintech organization and support the needs of our rapidly growing global business
- Share Audible’s overall business strategy and product team roadmaps with tech partners to establish context while seeking their input on where investments align with business strategy to align and execute on a roadmap
- Work closely with partners in Finance, Design, Tech, and to continue to scale financial platforms as Audible expands into various partnerships, programs, and markets
- Translate the product strategy and strategic initiatives into well-developed plans and objectives over different time frames with defined and measured value being realized iteratively
- Deliver value by creating reusable, extensible and resilient capabilities and proactively identify opportunities based on key metrics such as engineering efficiency, security, resilience and performance
- Work with tech partners to market the capabilities of the financial services platform your team releases across Audible’s tech, product, and marketing teams to ensure new services and capabilities are adopted and internal stakeholder needs are understood and met
- Proactively accelerate, unblock, de-risk and help optimize the work of the delivery teams working on your in-flight features
- Use data to drive product decisions, targeting metrics for success, and measuring results against them
- Influence technical priorities and business strategy through data-driven contributions
ABOUT AUDIBLE
At Audible, we innovate and inspire through the power of voice. We're changing the narrative on storytelling. As a leading creator and provider of premium audio storytelling, we've redefined the ways people access, discover, and share stories. The stories we tell have the ability to transport and transform everyday moments into meaningful experiences and it's our people who make Audible's service possible. We're listeners, storytellers, and problem-solvers. Our perspectives and experiences power our ideas and come together in our mission to unleash the power of the spoken word. Audible offers a Hub+Home hybrid workplace model that gives employees flexibility between gathering in a common office space (work from hub) and remote work (work from home). For more information, please visit adbl.co/hybrid.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Newark, NJ, USA
ABOUT THIS ROLE
Audible is seeking a Senior Product Manager, Financial Systems to define and build key technologies, tools, and services that form the foundation of financial reconciliation, accounting, tax at Audible. As part of the Financial Systems Platform team you will partner closely with finance partners, Amazon, and Audible teams to define the roadmap for the core services that power the Audible’s financial reconciliation and regulatory reporting. The Senior Product Manager, Financial Systems is an individual contributor role. They will contribute to the product strategy, roadmap, and continuous improvement of its global revenue, financial management, and tax systems. They will be responsible for partnering with Audible Technical Leads (SDE3s) and Software Development Managers to define the product roadmap for and oversee initiatives in Audible’s Financial Systems.
ABOUT THE TEAM
This team’s expansive scope covers all of the systems within Audible and Amazon that are leveraged for financial management and tax compliance. A team of dedicated engineers works alongside of other engineering teams across Audible and Amazon to enhance and build systems to continuously scale Audible’s global customer reach. This team works across functions, with critical guidance from accounting and tax professionals in both companies. Your success will directly benefit both Audible’s millions of listeners, as well as creators across the globe. In addition, you’ll gain direct insight into one of the world’s largest retailers, as you work closely with Amazon partners to leverage the best of Amazon’s technology and infrastructure.
ABOUT YOU
You communicate complex ideas in a simple, concise, and clear manner, with an ability to lead even in the face of ambiguity, including the authoring of detailed technical requirements. You have a proven history of managing a product roadmap, managing prioritization and trade-offs of short-term value and long-term strategic goals. You have a track record of driving decisions with data and analytics with applied judgment when data is ambiguous or absent. You have experience with building systems, reporting, and services for financial organizations. You have an ability to understand software systems and make meaningful contributions to software architecture decisions. You have deep knowledge of revenue reconciliation, the financial close process, and taxation. You are detail-oriented, ambitious, and a self-starter.
As a Senior Product Manager, Financial Systems, you will...
- Help drive the product strategy and vision for Audible’s Fintech organization and support the needs of our rapidly growing global business
- Share Audible’s overall business strategy and product team roadmaps with tech partners to establish context while seeking their input on where investments align with business strategy to align and execute on a roadmap
- Work closely with partners in Finance, Design, Tech, and to continue to scale financial platforms as Audible expands into various partnerships, programs, and markets
- Translate the product strategy and strategic initiatives into well-developed plans and objectives over different time frames with defined and measured value being realized iteratively
- Deliver value by creating reusable, extensible and resilient capabilities and proactively identify opportunities based on key metrics such as engineering efficiency, security, resilience and performance
- Work with tech partners to market the capabilities of the financial services platform your team releases across Audible’s tech, product, and marketing teams to ensure new services and capabilities are adopted and internal stakeholder needs are understood and met
- Proactively accelerate, unblock, de-risk and help optimize the work of the delivery teams working on your in-flight features
- Use data to drive product decisions, targeting metrics for success, and measuring results against them
- Influence technical priorities and business strategy through data-driven contributions
ABOUT AUDIBLE
At Audible, we innovate and inspire through the power of voice. We're changing the narrative on storytelling. As a leading creator and provider of premium audio storytelling, we've redefined the ways people access, discover, and share stories. The stories we tell have the ability to transport and transform everyday moments into meaningful experiences and it's our people who make Audible's service possible. We're listeners, storytellers, and problem-solvers. Our perspectives and experiences power our ideas and come together in our mission to unleash the power of the spoken word. Audible offers a Hub+Home hybrid workplace model that gives employees flexibility between gathering in a common office space (work from hub) and remote work (work from home). For more information, please visit adbl.co/hybrid.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Newark, NJ, USA
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- BS in engineering, computer science, or similar discipline
- 5+ years related product management experience with significant strategic scope
- 2+ years of experience in financial systems, payments, revenue reconciliation, etc.
- Experience with agile and lean product management methodology and best practices
- 5+ years related product management experience with significant strategic scope
- 2+ years of experience in financial systems, payments, revenue reconciliation, etc.
- Experience with agile and lean product management methodology and best practices
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- MBA or master’s degree
- High attention to detail and proven ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
- The ability to gather input & communicate with many internal and external stakeholders
- Sound business judgment, proven ability to influence others, and analytical thinking skills
- Experience in crafting accounting requirements documents (ARD), journal entry mappings (JEMS), tax requirement documents (TRD)
Audible is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Audible is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.
- High attention to detail and proven ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
- The ability to gather input & communicate with many internal and external stakeholders
- Sound business judgment, proven ability to influence others, and analytical thinking skills
- Experience in crafting accounting requirements documents (ARD), journal entry mappings (JEMS), tax requirement documents (TRD)
Audible is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Audible is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.
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