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

About the team

The Money Platform supports a range of creator monetisation and commercialisation businesses across TikTok by providing core financial service capabilities, including catalog, purchase, clearing and settlement, payout, wallet, and tax. As business needs continue to evolve, many use cases require not a single feature, but an end-to-end money service flow across multiple modules. This role focuses on turning platform capabilities into standardised, reusable, and scalable product solutions for different business scenarios.

About the Role

We are looking for a Product Manager to lead the build-out of a tax operations platform that supports TikTok creator and merchant monetization businesses.

This role is centered on designing product capabilities that enable tax specialists to manage tax-related operations in a clear, stable, configurable, and auditable way. The scope includes translating tax requirements into scalable platform solutions across tax calculation logic, invoice generation rules, tax rate maintenance, and tax-related API workflows.

This is not a purely execution-oriented product role, nor is it primarily focused on cross-border payment flows. International payments experience is required as foundational context, helping the candidate understand transactions, settlement, payout, currency, legal entities, and market differences. However, the core responsibility of this role is to build a self-serve backend platform for tax experts and reduce reliance on ad hoc engineering support.

Responsibilities

1. Build Tax Operations Platform Capabilities - Design backend tools for tax specialists, including tax rate maintenance, tax rule configuration, tax API management, invoice template configuration, and invoice generation. - Productize the day-to-day workflows of tax specialists to reduce engineering dependency for tax rule updates, template changes, and interface configuration. - Establish clear mechanisms for access control, approval workflows, change logs, version management, and audit trails to ensure tax configuration changes are controlled, traceable, and reversible. 2. Maintain and Manage Unified Tax Rate Data Tables - Design maintenance mechanisms for unified tax rate data tables covering dimensions such as country/region, business type, transaction scenario, legal entity, tax category, tax rate, and effective date. - Enable tax specialists to independently create, edit, deactivate, search, and validate tax rate configurations, reducing manual coordination and engineering involvement. - Design validation rules, change processes, historical versioning, and exception alerts to ensure tax rate data is accurate, complete, and traceable. 3. Design and Manage Tax-Related APIs - Own product design and invocation management for tax-related APIs, including scenarios such as tax calculation, tax filing, tax identity information, invoice generation, and tax certificates. - Define product requirements for API inputs and outputs, invocation timing, status transitions, failure handling, retry mechanisms, and exception alerting. - Partner with engineering teams, internal finance/tax systems, and external tax compliance partners to ensure stable implementation of tax API capabilities and support future extension and operational troubleshooting. 4. Design the Invoice Template Configuration and Generation Interface - Design backend interfaces for tax specialists to configure and generate invoice templates, including template fields, display formats, applicable countries/regions, business scenarios, entity information, and tax information. - Translate invoice generation rules into operational interfaces that are understandable, maintainable, and verifiable, enabling tax specialists to manage templates independently. - Support template preview, test generation, version management, release workflows, and exception troubleshooting to ensure invoice outputs meet business and tax requirements. 5. Translate Tax Calculation Logic and Invoice Rules into Product Capabilities - Understand and implement tax calculation logic, including taxable base, tax rate matching, withholding tax, exemptions, rounding rules, currency conversion, and rule effective dates. - Break down invoice generation rules into executable system requirements across fields, templates, validations, statuses, and workflows. 6. Drive Cross-Functional Collaboration and Delivery - Partner with tax, finance, legal/compliance, payments, engineering, operations, and business teams to drive requirement clarification, solution reviews, development delivery, launch acceptance, and ongoing operations. Identify key risks, blockers, and dependencies in tax platform development and drive issue resolution. - Build standardized product solutions, configuration guidelines, operating instructions, and change processes to improve self-service efficiency for tax teams.