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The Principal Product Manager owns the full product lifecycle for a specific product, from ideation to market launch and continuous optimization. This role plays a pivotal part in defining the product strategy, ensuring that it aligns with the company’s long-term goals, and works closely with cross-functional teams to execute the roadmap. \n\nJob Function & Responsibilities:Customer and Market-Driven StrategyLead customer and market research efforts to inform product strategy, ensuring customer pain points and market trends drive decision-making while optimizing product profitability and return on investment. \nStakeholder Alignment and InfluenceInfluence product decisions by aligning engineering, marketing, and leadership teams, ensuring strategic cohesion across all functions. Shape internal and external messaging to ensure product initiatives align with business objectives and customer needs. \nProblem Solving/AutonomyTackle ambiguous, large-scale problems and drive resolution with minimal oversight. \nData-Driven Decision MakingMake high-level decisions based on data, balancing customer insights with business needs and performance metrics to guide product direction. \nDomain KnowledgeHave a deep, nuanced understanding of the product and market landscape. \nLeadership and Team ManagementLead the full matrixed team for your product, making key decisions, guiding team efforts, and driving product direction. Mentor junior team members. \nStrategic Thinking and Vision\nOwn the tactical execution of the product strategy for your product, ensuring alignment with company objectives. Guide and make high-level decisions that shape the product’s future. \n\nProvide leadership in creating cross-product innovation for a mid-term time horizon. Identify and define innovation opportunities that are not covered within a single product line. \n\nEnsure Vertex competitiveness by creating continuous evolution of solutions derived from a tax-centric, market-driven perspective to identify opportunities not yet covered by existing individual solutions. Leverage tax technology, tax lifecycle, and tax process know-how to identify opportunities for automation and innovation that are currently not covered. \n\nIdentify opportunities for end-to-end solutions by integration and/or APIs between solutions and recommend harmonizing and standardizing roadmaps. \n\nParticipate as a trusted advisor to the suite owner to assist in the definition of individual solutions and their evolution. \n\nEnable and advance Vertex innovation capability and speed by leveraging and exposing industry knowledge and experience. \n\nInterface/Team across functional areas such as Strategy and Emerging Technology to create long-term product vision and concepts. \n\nParticipate in setting the mid-term strategic and product direction for Vertex. \n\nMaintain frequent contact with customers, partners, and other market participants to identify pain points and derive innovation ideas. \n\nPresent and represent Vertex in conferences to showcase Vertex thought leadership. \n\nRoutinely attend trade shows and maintain excellent awareness and fluency in competitor offerings, driving differentiated product offerings and enabling sales and marketing differentiation in offerings. \n\nCreate and maintain mechanisms for receiving and tracking input on requirements from prospects, customers, internal staff, partners, trade shows, and industry analysts. \n\nOccasional travel required. \n\nSkills:\nUnderstanding of “jobs to be done” in the global transaction tax space. \n\nMust have excellent business acumen and knowledge of core, emerging, and competitive markets in the tax technology space. \n\nAbility to articulate and translate business problems into solutions in a cloud environment. \n\nGenerally understand the impact of ecosystems and how to build solutions for and to integrate with them. \n\nExcellent presentation skills with the ability to make presentations to top management. \n\nProven ability to work in a matrixed environment and lead by influence. \n\nProven ability to stay on task, overcome obstacles, meet deadlines and milestones, and deliver work by agreed-upon dates. \n\nDemonstrated ability to drive results virtually with distributed global teams. \n\nRequired Qualifications:\nBachelor’s Degree in Business, Engineering, or related field preferred. \n\nMinimum of twelve (10) plus years of product management experience. \n\nPrevious experience with SaaS, Cloud solutions. \n\nSuccessful track record of developing go-to marketing programs with measurable results. \n\nCOMMENTS:The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by individuals in this position. Other functions may be assigned, and management retains the right to add or change the duties at any time.\n\nVertex Values: Together We Win\nWe're building a team of people who are passionate about making an impact for our customers and committed to how that impact is achieved. Our values define the behaviors, mindset, and culture that make Vertex a great place to grow and do meaningful work.\n\nPlay to Win or We Don't Play — If we choose to do something, we're choosing to do it because we plan to win. That mindset raises our bar on product quality, customer outcomes, and how we show up for one another. \n\nWork As a Team, Putting the Customer At the Core — Our customers are our true north. Whatever your role, ask: how will this help a customer succeed today? We earn trust through outcomes, not promises. \n\nAchieve Excellence With Integrity, Speed, and Agility — The market isn't slowing down. We'll move faster, adapt quickly, and never compromise on doing things the right way — for teammates, customers, and partners. \n\nInnovate Boldly With a Growth Mindset — Progress demands smart risk. We'll try new approaches, learn fast, and keep pushing the boundaries — especially where AI can remove friction and unlock value. \n\nCommunicate with Care, Candor and Transparency — Honest, constructive conversations make us better. 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