VP of Global Tax

Overview

The organization is seeking a visionary, hands-on VP of Global Tax to lead the global tax organization through the next chapter of hyper-growth, public-readiness, and digital transformation.

This role is a strategic leadership position with multinational experience and strong cross-border capabilities, including ASC 740 expertise. You will translate complex tax matters into clear, executive-level decisions, take an active role in critical deliverables, and lead and develop a global tax team.

You will serve as the primary interface with external auditors, professional service providers, and tax authorities, leveraging internal and external partners to deliver results with speed, rigor, and integrity.

Responsibilities

Global tax strategy, compliance, and reporting

• Lead the organization’s global tax strategy (income, indirect, transfer pricing, and reporting) and design scalable tax structures to support international expansion and optimize the effective tax rate.
• Direct strategy and compliance for global indirect taxes, including VAT, GST, sales tax, and digital services taxes.
• Collaborate with Product, Supply Chain, Legal, FP&A, and Finance to evaluate tax impacts on new products, pricing, legal entities, and market launches.
• Establish and maintain global transfer pricing policies, intercompany agreements, and compliance documentation.
• Manage external global tax advisors and lead tax audit requests, technical accounting analyses, and auditor relations.
• Track emerging global tax laws to mitigate risk, and present tax strategy, risk assessments, and reporting to executive leadership and the Audit Committee.

Enterprise projects, transformation, and special initiatives

• Partner cross-functionally on enterprise initiatives such as legal entity rationalization, restructurings, systems implementations and integrations, and other tax projects.
• Drive improvements in tax processes to simplify, automate, and improve speed and quality in partnership with Finance and IT teams.

Post-IPO public compliance (US GAAP / ASC 740)

• Own the global tax provision process under US GAAP (ASC 740).
• Ensure robust Internal Controls over Financial Reporting (ICFR / SOX 404) are designed, documented, and operating effectively from day one of being public.
• Act as the primary interface for external auditors and regulators, ensuring efficient quarterly and annual reviews.

Tax planning and supply chain alignment

• Structure and manage international IP allocation and transfer pricing strategies to optimize the organization’s global effective tax rate (ETR).
• Assess and structure the tax implications of potential mergers, acquisitions, and joint ventures, as well as rapid global expansion initiatives.
• Partner with Treasury to design and execute cash repatriation strategies to fund global operations tax-efficiently.

Tax audit defense

• Lead the defense of all tax audits globally, formulating responses to inquiries from the IRS, state agencies, and foreign tax authorities.

Qualifications

• 20+ years of progressive tax leadership experience, including at least 5 years in a high-growth technology (SaaS + Hardware) environment and multinational organization.
• Big 4 public accounting experience is highly preferred.
• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance.
• MST (Master of Science in Taxation), JD, or CPA is strongly preferred.
• Deep expertise in U.S. federal, state, and international tax reporting, including tax accounting under US GAAP and ASC 740.
• Demonstrated success leading teams and managing complex cross-border issues, audits, and external service advisor relationships.
• Strong track record of partnering across functions and supporting executive leadership.
• Experience with financial reporting environments.
• IPO / Public Company Experience: hands-on experience preparing a company to go public and building out SOX-compliant tax departments.
• Systems acumen: direct experience implementing or overseeing integrations of tax technologies.

Compensation & Benefits

Compensation

• Base Salary: $270,000 - $300,000
• Market-based approach to pay may vary depending on location. US locations are categorized into tiers based on a cost of labor index. Offers are determined based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, work location, internal peer equity, and market conditions. Ranges may be modified in the future.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity packages
• Health, dental, vision insurance, and mental health resources
• Company-paid ring plus employee discounts for friends & family
• 20 days of paid time off plus 13 paid holidays plus 8 days of flexible wellness time off
• Paid sick leave and parental leave

Location

The organization is not considering candidates residing in the following states: Alaska (AK), Delaware (DE), Iowa (IA), Mississippi (MS), Nebraska (NE), South Dakota (SD), West Virginia (WV), and Wisconsin (WI).

Equal Opportunity

The organization is an equal opportunity workplace and does not discriminate based on protected characteristics under applicable federal, state, or local laws. Individuals seeking employment are considered without regard to age, ancestry, color, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, mental or physical disability, national origin, protected family care or medical leave status, race, religion (including beliefs and practices or the absence thereof), sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Reasonable accommodations are provided for individuals with disabilities to participate in the interview process and perform essential job functions.