US Indirect Tax Lead

The role

This leader will own the US indirect tax function end to end and build it to scale. You will manage taxability, compliance, tax engine integration, tax positions, and audit defense across US state and local jurisdictions.

What you will do

• Own US sales and use tax compliance across all states and local jurisdictions.
• Lead taxability studies for new products.
• Manage communications with tax engine providers and outside advisors.
• Own the integration of the tax engine with the checkout and payments stack.
• Research, conclude on, and document tax positions in memos.
• Lead audit support and defense end to end.
• Quantify, reserve for, and remediate historical exposure through VDAs and amnesty programs.
• Partner with Engineering, Data, Legal, Product, and Finance.
• Implement AI into individual steps of tax workflows.
• Build and maintain policies, process narratives, controls, tools, and documentation.

Required qualifications

• 12+ years of progressive US sales and use tax experience, with hands-on ownership of multistate compliance for a high-volume business.
• Extensive hands-on experience integrating a tax engine with checkout, billing, or ERP systems.
• Demonstrated experience leading taxability studies across digital products, SaaS, and services.
• A track record drafting tax position memos and exposure analyses.
• Direct experience leading state sales and use tax audits from opening conference through close.
• The judgment to distinguish routine compliance decisions from positions requiring technical analysis, escalation, or outside counsel.

Nice to have

• marketplace, payments, fintech, SaaS, or digital goods environment preferred
• Big Four, in-house industry, or state tax authority auditor experience preferred
• Comfort working with SQL or large transaction datasets is a nice to have
• JD, LLM in Taxation, or other law background
• CPA or CMI (Certified Member of the Institute for Professionals in Taxation)
• Marketplace facilitator law, digital products taxation, or telecom and communications taxes

Benefits

• Best in class cash compensation
• Meaningful equity
• High trust environment with real ownership and direct access to company leaders
• Meals
• Wellness support
• Office benefits designed for an in-person team

About the company

Whop is an in office company of about 100 people. They are building the infrastructure for the next generation of internet entrepreneurs.