Senior Product Manager - Financial Operations Technology
The D. E. Shaw Group
Accounting & Finance, Product, IT, Operations
New York, NY, USA
Posted on Mar 13, 2026
What you’ll do day-to-day
- Act as a senior product manager and strategic partner to business stakeholders, owning product direction, prioritization, and delivery of high‑impact technology solutions across financial operations teams.
- Balance near‑term operational needs with longer‑term platform strategy, proactively identify opportunities for automation and risk reduction, and drive alignment on product vision and roadmap across technology and non‑technology teams.
Depending on your background and interests, you’ll align primarily with one of the following focus areas:
Tax-Focused Role:
- Partner with Tax, Payroll, MCA, and financial operations teams to understand end-to-end tax processes, data flows, and compliance requirements, evaluating the current technology landscape to identify opportunities for consolidation, integration, and scalable solutions.
- Conduct deep discovery and process mapping across tax compliance to surface pain points, manual workarounds, control gaps, and opportunities for automation and modernization of tax technology into a scalable, integrated ecosystem.
- Serve as a strategic partner to Tax leadership, helping assess where technology investment is most impactful (e.g., analytics, reporting, workflow tooling, or KTLO stabilization).
- Translate complex business and operational requirements into clear product definitions, priorities, and technical deliverables, conduct build-vs-buy analyses, and partner with engineering and QA teams through design, build, and deployment.
- Own and evolve the product roadmap for Tax technology solutions, focusing on operational needs and longer-term platform strategy.
MCA-Focused Role:
- Collaborate with the MCA team to assess, design, and deliver technology solutions that modernize MCA operations across functional areas (e.g., Accounts Payable, Expense Reporting and other areas).
- Conduct build-vs-buy analyses, implement document and knowledge management systems, develop AI- and metadata-enabled tools for drafting and research, and create scalable infrastructure.
- Identify, prioritize, and implement technology solutions that support invoice processing, expense allocation and reporting, accounting ledger management, and financial reporting, which may include implementing ERP systems, enhancing existing systems, and developing AI-enabled tools.
- Lead requirements gathering and prioritization across stakeholder groups, develop and maintain product roadmaps, and proactively identify opportunities for workflow automation, data integrity improvements, and operational resilience.