Senior Principal Product Manager – Audit AI

Vertex Inc. • Remote - PA, PA

2d • $191,500 - $249,000

About The Position

The Senior Principal Product Manager – Audit AI is a senior individual contributor leading product management for Vertex’s AI-powered audit workflows for indirect tax. This role will define, build, and scale an AI-first solution for indirect tax audit and notice management, helping enterprises triage, gather, interpret, and respond to complex audit notices and audits.

The role owns the product lifecycle, from market discovery and product strategy through roadmap prioritization, feature definition, and delivery. It applies expertise in tax audit management and notice response workflows to create a differentiated AI-enabled product experience. The position also establishes a multi-year AI-first vision, shapes AI capabilities from concept to delivery—including model training cycles and benchmark evaluations—and develops evaluation frameworks intended to prevent critical compliance errors.

The product manager partners with UX, Engineering, Product Marketing, Sales, Customer Success, and Consulting, and engages directly with customers to validate product direction and deliver measurable value across the notice response lifecycle. Vertex describes a culture focused on customer outcomes, teamwork, integrity, agility, innovation, and transparent communication.

Requirements

• Hands-on experience with tax audit management and notice response workflows, including experience responding to audit notices or directly managing evidence gathering and audit responses.
• Familiarity with the questions auditors ask and how organizations assemble and present evidence in response to audits.
• Strong customer-facing skills and experience in customer discovery, validation, and strategic discussions.
• Ability to understand customer pain points and translate them into product decisions.
• Experience using cloud-based tools and software platforms to gather, organize, and manage audit evidence data.
• Product management experience owning a product or product area independently, including strategy, roadmap, feature definition, requirements, acceptance criteria, and backlog prioritization.
• Ability to translate complex audit and compliance workflows into clear, implementable requirements for Engineering and cross-functional teams.
• Ability to drive cross-functional initiatives across Product, Engineering, Sales, Marketing, and Consulting without direct reporting authority.

Nice To Haves

• Prior experience at or with an audit management software platform, risk management solution, or compliance technology vendor.
• Background in tax technology, indirect tax, transaction tax, or financial compliance.
• Experience at a Big Four professional services firm (Deloitte, PwC, EY, or KPMG) in audit, tax, or advisory.
• Familiarity with AI-enabled audit automation, evidence-gathering workflows, or notice response technologies.
• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Accounting, Finance, Engineering, or a related field; equivalent education, training, and relevant professional experience may be accepted instead of a formal degree.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end product development lifecycle, including strategy, roadmap, market discovery, feature definition, requirements, acceptance criteria, and backlog prioritization.
• Translate complex audit and compliance problems into streamlined AI workflows and implementable product requirements.
• Balance rapid launches of AI capabilities with robust, long-term product value.
• Establish evaluation frameworks for AI-generated insights and responses, with a stated zero-tolerance objective for critical compliance errors.
• Partner with UX design to build intuitive automation and human-in-the-loop experiences that enable tax professionals to review, verify, and approve AI actions.
• Collaborate with Product Marketing, Sales, and Customer Success on pricing, packaging, ongoing support, adoption, and customer satisfaction.
• Apply subject-matter expertise in tax audits, audit management, and notice response workflows to shape product requirements.
• Establish the multi-year product strategy for an AI-first solution that improves audit notice response, evidence gathering, and workflow automation.
• Drive AI capabilities from concept through delivery, including model training cycles and benchmark evaluations.
• Engage directly with customers to understand pain points, validate product direction, and ensure measurable value across the notice response lifecycle.
• Drive cross-functional initiatives across Product, Engineering, Sales, Marketing, and Consulting without direct reporting authority.

Benefits

• The role may be eligible for the Vertex Bonus Plan, a role-specific sales commission or bonus, and/or equity grants.
• Vertex states that compensation and benefit program details are available through a recruiter.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed