Description
As a Senior Manager, Global Indirect Tax at Discord, you'll lead global indirect tax strategy and advisory for new products, evolving business models and laws, and enterprise-wide initiatives.
You'll be a trusted strategic advisor to teams across the business, making sure indirect tax requirements, risks, and opportunities are considered early and thoughtfully, not after launch.
Responsibilities:
- Own all technical areas of global indirect tax and serve as the lead researcher on complex issues such as taxability, sourcing, and emerging business models.
- Lead indirect tax strategy for new products, monetization models, and market entries (digital goods, virtual currency, marketplaces, advertising, subscriptions).
- Monitor legislative and regulatory changes globally, assess the impact on the business, and turn them into actionable recommendations.
- Analyze the indirect tax implications of inter-company transactions, new entity structures, and acquisitions.
- Partner with Tax Operations to make sure positions are documented and implemented correctly in our tax system and review global indirect tax compliance and returns.
- Lead audits and controversy, including defense strategy and supporting documentation.
- Identify and lead planning and risk-reduction opportunities, including registrations, deregistrations, and voluntary disclosures.
- Prepare clear, concise materials for senior leadership, including the CFO, that frame the issue, the options, the recommendation, and the risk.
- Manage external advisors on scope, quality, and cost, and know when to push back on their conclusions.
- Use and help build tax technology and AI tools to improve the quality and efficiency of indirect tax analysis, and build scalable processes, templates, and controls as the business grows.
Requirements:
- 10+ years of global indirect tax experience, with a mix of Big 4 or law firm and in-house experience at a technology or digital company.
- Deep technical knowledge of US sales and use tax and working knowledge of international VAT/GST, especially as they apply to digital products, SaaS, and platform business models.
- A track record of owning complex issues from start to finish without needing a roadmap, and delivering polished, accurate, well-supported work products.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication.
- Sound judgment and comfort operating in gray areas, with the confidence to make a recommendation and the humility to revisit it as facts change.
- Experience working with tax engines (Vertex or similar) and translating technical positions into system logic.
- JD/LLM, CPA, or equivalent preferred.
Benefits:
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- 401(k) plan
- Life and disability insurance
- Paid time off
- Paid parental leave