Senior Manager, Tax Technology

Axon Axon · Enterprise · Boston, MA · 4508 Tax

This role is for a Senior Manager, Tax Technology at Axon. The primary focus is on supporting and enhancing technology enablement for the global tax function, leading process improvement, and supporting tax-related systems and data flows. While the role involves leveraging AI and emerging technologies to improve workflows and team productivity, and familiarity with AI platforms is mentioned, the core craft is not AI/ML model development but rather tax technology and process improvement. The role involves working with tax technology stacks and data, which aligns with L0 data engineering aspects, but the core function is not AI model building.

What you'd actually do

  1. Partner with the tax team to identify and implement process improvements, automation opportunities, and technology solutions that increase efficiency and accuracy.
  2. Evaluate end-to-end tax processes, data flows, and system dependencies to improve scalability across both manufacturing and SaaS business models.
  3. Support and enhance the tax technology stack, including D365, Salesforce, Vertex O Series, Sigma, Snowflake, and related platforms.
  4. Leverage AI and emerging technologies to improve workflows, documentation, research, and team productivity.
  5. Support reporting, testing, documentation, and change management related to tax technology initiatives.

Skills

Required

  • 8+ years of relevant experience in tax technology, finance technology, business systems, or a related function.
  • Experience supporting a large multinational or complex global business.
  • Strong background in process improvement, systems support, and solution design.
  • Strong project management and cross-functional team collaboration skills
  • Experience with D365, Salesforce, Vertex O Series, Sigma, and Snowflake.
  • Working knowledge of SQL and related data or automation tools.
  • intermediate-to-advanced SQL (not just query writing — schema awareness, joins, troubleshooting data pipeline issues), experience building or maintaining a data mart or reporting layer, and Sigma or similar tool dashboard development or administration.
  • Systems architecture and problem-solving mindset - required.

Nice to have

  • Tax experience preferred; including direct and indirect taxes globally
  • Alteryx experience a plus.
  • Familiarity with AI platforms such as ChatGPT, Cursor, Claude, or similar tools.

What the JD emphasized

  • systems thinking
  • process improvement
  • problem-solving
  • technical fluency
  • complex international environment
  • systems and data interact
  • practical, scalable solutions
  • systems architecture
  • problem-solving mindset - required