Badass Director of Tax (150k-190k)

Overview

This is a full-time, fully-remote tax and accounting leadership role for U.S. applicants only. The organization serves dentists and physicians, many of whom own their own practices and related real estate. The team handles bookkeeping, prepares returns, and supports clients with ongoing tax questions.

As the CPA in this position, you will own the final review and final tax opinions before returns are filed, while partnering closely with leadership and mentoring a tax team.

Responsibilities

• Provide final sign-off on every tax return and every tax strategy before it is submitted
• Review returns prepared by the team, including:
  • S-corps
  • Partnerships
  • Related individual returns
• Step in for complex technical questions and strategy decisions
• Build, maintain, and oversee tax positions and strategies across the client base
• Determine appropriate levels of risk and aggressiveness within strategy decisions
• Ensure compliance as rules and requirements change
• Support team growth by helping hire, train, and eventually manage tax staff and managers as the firm expands
• Partner directly with the founder on the future direction of the tax practice
• Manage workload with an aim to stay close to 40 hours per week; during busy season hours may increase, but are not expected to approach big-firm hours

Requirements

• 7+ years in public accounting or tax, including real experience as a final reviewer (not just a preparer)
• Strong, hands-on knowledge of S-corps, partnerships, and pass-through taxation, including:
  • basis
  • distributions
  • reasonable compensation
  • entity structuring trade-offs
• Comfort working with real estate matters, including:
  • cost segregation
  • passive activity rules
  • 1031s
• Active CPA license (non-negotiable)
• Ability to explain tax strategies to a doctor in plain English, without talking down
• Experience leading or mentoring other tax professionals (formal or informal)
• Interest in building and running a tax team over time, not only reviewing returns

Preferred Qualifications

• Bonus: experience with dental or medical practice owners

Compensation & Benefits

• $150K–$180K salary, depending on experience
• Performance bonus tied to review quality, compliance, and firm growth
• Real path to equity or profit-sharing as the practice grows
• Unlimited PTO
• Health insurance
• Company laptop, monitor, and full tech setup
• Direct access to firm leadership
• Semi-annual retreats with the entire company

Location

• Fully remote
• U.S. applicants only