State Tax Manager

You will work directly with the analysis, content, product and engineering teams on the development of content products and applications for Bloomberg Tax and Accounting’s research division. As someone who has practiced in the tax and accounting domain, you provide critically important context to the development process to help make well-informed decisions about the products we build. You do this primarily by contributing to development efforts related to key tax and accounting domain concepts.

What you will do:

• Participate in continuous customer discovery with team members to develop deep understanding of customer needs and share insights constantly with internal stakeholders.
• Support ongoing product delivery efforts by addressing domain questions during development, developing test data sets and excel tools, and performing UAT over completed user stories and features.
• Research tax and accounting issues that directly relate to product initiatives and communicate findings clearly and concisely to relevant internal stakeholders.
• Partner with product managers on feature discovery and release scoping.
• Contribute to the creation of effective tools for customer discovery (e.g., problem statements, mock-ups, prototypes) while working alongside analysts and/or user experience (UX) designers.
• Contribute to product domain thought leadership and perform product demonstrations as needed in support of customer experience (CX), sales, and marketing teams.
• Analyze domain customer support issues by working directly with customers, researching and scoping problem , and brainstorming solutions in coordination with the customer support team.
• Participate in special projects and perform other duties as assigned.
• You need to have: Bachelor’s degree required, concentration in Accounting, Finance or Economics degree strongly preferred.
• JD, CPA or CPA-eligible strongly preferred.
• 5+ years working in a corporate tax or accounting department or CPA firm.
• Excellent ability to translate complex technical tax and accounting concepts into layman’s terms.
• A love for technology and an intellectual curiosity in applying technology to solve customer problems.
• Willingness to travel to industry conferences and to perform customer discovery.