About Shine
Shine is the financial copilot for entrepreneurs and small business owners. Founded by serial entrepreneurs Rico Andersen and Martin Hegelund, Shine is a leading European fintech unicorn on a mission to restore the joy of running a business, by ending wasted time on financial admin. Shine offers a connected solution for invoicing, accounting, payroll, business accounts, payments, and financing, meaning business owners can focus their energy on growing a healthy business, not held back by manual admin.
Responsibilities
•Own the Global Tax strategy and roadmap — all annual business tax returns across all core markets sequenced by customer value and regulatory deadlines.
•Build one tax engine, not three products — define what is shared (data model, tax mapping from the ledger, rules framework, review workflow) and what is local (forms, calculations, validations), so each new country is a configuration, not a rebuild.
•Own electronic filing end-to-end — transmission and certification through ELSTER/ERiC in Germany and the equivalent channels in France and Spain, including submission status, error handling and checking the tax assessment (Steuerbescheid) against the filed return.
•Serve two segments on one engine — primarily a comprehensive, high-throughput workflow for tax advisors and CPAs, and secondarily a simplified, guided DIY experience for business owners in Shine Micro.
•Make AI a core capability — pre-filled returns, automated classification of tax-relevant postings, plausibility checks and clear explanations that let advisors review instead of re-key.
•Run deep discovery with tax advisors — sit with Steuerberater and their teams during tax season, understand where time is lost today, and turn that into a sharp, prioritised backlog.
•Keep the product compliant year after year — set up a reliable process for annual form changes, new legislation and authority interface updates, so advisors can trust the product when deadlines hit.
•Orchestrate across the ecosystem — partner closely with Global Year-End, Core Accounting, Advisor, the common ledger teams and the local products in France, Germany and Spain.
Requirements
•You are a seasoned product manager — 5+ years building complex B2B SaaS, ideally in tax, accounting, ERP or other regulated domains, with a track record of taking products from discovery to adoption.
•You have good accounting fundamentals — you have a good understanding of double-entry bookkeeping, charts of accounts, and how a ledger turns into financial statements.
•You think in platforms — you can separate what is shared from what is local across countries and turn that into a scalable engine.
•You are technically fluent — comfortable discussing data models, rules engines, APIs and government interfaces with engineers.
•You are AI-fluent — you use AI in your own workflow and think critically about where AI should change how tax work gets done.
•You care about precision — tax filings leave no room for "almost right", and you design for correctness, auditability and trust.
•You communicate clearly — with engineers on system design, with tax advisors on workflow needs, and with leadership on trade-offs.
•You are fluent in English; German is a big plus.
Conditions
No conditions are stated in the posting.
