International Indirect Tax Lead

The role

This leader will own Whop's VAT, GST, and digital services tax obligations outside the US and build the function to scale. You will manage global registrations, compliance, tax engine integration, taxability, tax positions, and audit defense.

What you will do

• Own international indirect tax compliance across all 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
• 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 international indirect tax experience across VAT, GST, and digital services regimes
• Extensive hands-on experience leading global indirect tax registrations across many jurisdictions, including OSS/IOSS and non-resident simplified regimes
• Extensive hands-on experience integrating a tax engine with checkout, billing, or ERP systems
• Demonstrated experience leading taxability studies for digital products, SaaS, and services
• A track record drafting tax position memos and exposure analyses and defending them
• Direct experience leading global indirect tax audits and inquiries
• A track record of proactively using AI tools to refine or create new processes

Nice to have

• marketplace, payments, fintech, SaaS, or digital goods environment preferred
• Big Four, in-house industry, or tax authority auditor experience preferred
• Comfort working with SQL or large transaction datasets
• JD, LLM in Taxation, or other law background
• CPA, CTA, ADIT, or equivalent professional qualification
• Platform and deemed supplier rules, e-invoicing mandates, or DAC7 and other platform reporting
• Working proficiency in a second language

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.