Product Manager, Regulatory Reporting & Filing

Job Description

About the role

At Sage, we help businesses flow by making accounting, finance, HR and payroll simpler and more connected.

Sage's Domain Services organisation provides reusable platform capabilities that help Sage products respond to changing tax, compliance and regulatory obligations across multiple countries and markets. Our services power critical customer journeys across Sage's ecosystem and enable faster, more consistent delivery of regulatory change.

As Product Manager for Regulatory Reporting & Filing, you will own a critical set of platform services that support periodic tax reporting and filing obligations. You will work at the intersection of tax regulation, customer needs and engineering delivery, helping Sage customers meet statutory reporting obligations accurately and efficiently.

This role is suited to an experienced Product Manager who is a proactive self-starter, comfortable operating in a highly matrixed organisation and able to navigate ambiguity. You will need to apply ruthless prioritisation, balancing regulatory commitments, customer outcomes, colleague needs and the long-term sustainability of shared platform services.

This is a hybrid role working 3 days a week in our Newcastle office.

What you'll do

• Own the product strategy and roadmap for Regulatory Reporting & Filing services, balancing mandatory regulatory commitments, customer outcomes, colleague needs and long-term platform health.
• Turn regulatory change into clear product direction by partnering with compliance knowledge teams, tax specialists and in-country experts.
• Define platform capabilities that support VAT returns, indirect tax reporting, statutory submissions and future compliance obligations.
• Lead discovery to understand reporting challenges, operational pain points, jobs-to-be-done and opportunities for simplification.
• Manage competing priorities across multiple countries and reporting obligations, making trade-offs transparent and evidence-based.
• Partner with engineering, architecture, legal, tax specialists, in-country teams, go-to-market colleagues and consuming product teams to deliver reliable and scalable services.
• Monitor adoption, service performance and customer outcomes after release, then decide whether to improve, expand, sustain or stop.
• Use AI as part of day-to-day product management practice to accelerate research, analysis, synthesis, prioritisation, discovery and communication, while personally validating material evidence and conclusions.

Key Responsibilities

What you'll bring

Essential

• Proven experience as a Product Manager delivering software products, platform capabilities, APIs or shared services.
• Strong understanding of product strategy, roadmap development, prioritisation and product discovery.
• Demonstrable ability to translate complex and evolving requirements into clear product outcomes and strategic direction.
• A proactive self-starter who takes ownership, drives outcomes independently and is comfortable operating with high levels of autonomy.
• Comfortable working within a highly matrixed organisation, building alignment across multiple teams and stakeholders without relying on direct authority.
• Demonstrable ability to operate effectively in environments with significant ambiguity, competing priorities and evolving requirements.
• Ability to apply ruthless prioritisation, balancing regulatory obligations, customer needs, business objectives and platform sustainability when making product decisions.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capability, with the ability to work credibly with tax specialists, engineers and product teams.
• Excellent communication skills in English, both written and verbal, with the ability to distil complex information into clear requirements, decisions and narratives.
• Experience using AI tools to improve product management effectiveness, including customer research, insight generation, discovery, prioritisation, analysis and decision support.

Desirable

• Experience working within tax, compliance, accounting or regulatory technology domains.
• Professional qualifications or background in tax, accounting, finance, audit, law or a related discipline.
• Experience with VAT reporting, statutory reporting, sales tax reporting, tax filing solutions or financial compliance workflows.
• Hands‑on familiarity with European tax compliance frameworks, VAT in the Digital Age, DAC or country‑by‑country tax and reporting reforms.
• Experience delivering platform products, APIs or shared services consumed by multiple product teams.
• Spanish, French and/or German language skills.

What success looks like

• A clear, shared roadmap is established for Regulatory Reporting & Filing services, with priorities, dependencies, risks and decision points visible to leadership and consuming product teams.
• Regulatory obligations are translated into clear and actionable product strategies, delivery plans and customer value.
• Filing services are trusted, scalable, well‑documented and adopted across relevant Sage products.
• Customers can meet reporting obligations accurately and efficiently, with reduced complexity and stronger confidence in compliance outcomes.
• Product decisions are supported by customer insight, evidence, AI‑assisted analysis and sound product judgement.

Why this role matters

Governments continue to modernise and digitise tax reporting requirements. By shaping scalable Regulatory Reporting & Filing services, this role will help Sage products respond faster to regulatory change and help businesses meet statutory obligations with confidence.

Benefits

At Sage, we offer you an environment where you can grow professionally without compromising your personal well-being. Our benefits package is designed to provide stability, flexibility, and balance:

Benefits video –

• Comprehensive health, dental and vision coverage
• Work away scheme for up to 10 weeks a year
• On‑going training and professional development
• Paid 5 days yearly to volunteer through our Sage Foundation
• Flexible work patterns and hybrid working

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