Tax Manager

Overview

This role serves as the organization’s first dedicated tax hire, owning and scaling the tax function across a diverse, evolving set of business activities. Responsibilities span tax compliance and reporting, oversight of external tax advisors, and cross-functional partnership to incorporate tax requirements into customer-facing products, systems, and operations.

Responsibilities

• Own the overall tax function and act as the primary internal resource for tax matters across the business
• Manage federal, state, and local income tax compliance, including coordinating with outside preparers, reviewing filings, and ensuring timely and accurate submissions
• Directly oversee and prepare key in-house filings and reporting, including:
  • State fantasy sports tax filings
  • Customer tax information reporting
  • Equity-related tax reporting
• Lead the organization’s approach to tax information reporting for prediction market customers as applicable requirements and products evolve
• Partner with Product, Engineering, and Data to develop and maintain customer-facing tax capabilities and validate completeness and accuracy of tax calculations and reporting
• Coordinate the annual tax provision process under ASC 740, serving as the primary liaison with external tax advisors and auditors
• Coordinate R&D tax credit analysis, including support for collection and documentation of qualifying activities and expenses
• Research and communicate tax implications of new products, markets, and business initiatives in partnership with external advisors and internal stakeholders
• Build scalable tax processes, documentation, reconciliations, and internal controls that can grow with the business
• Monitor changes in tax law and information-reporting requirements and proactively identify risks, opportunities, and operational impacts
• Manage relationships with external tax advisors, auditors, and tax authorities

Requirements

• 5+ years of progressive tax experience, ideally including experience in public accounting and an in-house corporate tax environment
• CPA with a strong technical foundation in federal and state income tax; Big Four experience is strongly preferred
• Versatile tax professional comfortable working across a broad range of tax matters, including income tax, industry-specific taxes, and customer information reporting
• Comfortable overseeing outside advisors while remaining hands-on and accountable for underlying work
• Experienced in reviewing complex datasets, reconciling tax calculations, and identifying data or process issues
• Able to collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders on tax-related business and product needs
• Skilled at translating complex tax requirements into clear operational and technical requirements for non-tax stakeholders
• Comfortable being the only tax professional in the room, without a large internal team or established playbook to rely on
• Detail-oriented and pragmatic, with sound judgment about risk and what to prioritize in a fast-moving environment
• Able to manage multiple deadlines and competing priorities without dropping the ball
• Excited to build systems and improve processes, not simply administer existing ones

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience at a high-growth startup or as part of a lean finance team
• Experience in fantasy sports, gaming, fintech, financial services, prediction markets, or another highly regulated industry
• Significant multistate tax and nexus experience
• Experience with high-volume customer or payee information reporting
• Experience partnering with technical teams to build tax calculations or customer-facing tax products
• Experience with equity compensation tax matters, including ISOs, NSOs, RSUs, Forms 3921, and Section 83(b) elections
• Familiarity with R&D tax credits and related documentation requirements
• Experience implementing tax software, data workflows, or other tax infrastructure

Compensation & Benefits

• Target starting base salary range: $128,000 to $160,000, plus target equity
• Final compensation determined based on relevant experience, skills and expertise, interview performance, and other market considerations
• Unlimited PTO for full-time employees (flexible, with exceptions for the first few weeks and into the NFL season)
• 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave
• Home office stipend
• 401k with up to 5% employer match
• Company paid health, dental, vision plan options for employees and dependents, FSA, and more

Location

Remote-first by design, with regular in-person gatherings for collaboration and team activities.