[Hiring] US Indirect Tax Lead @Veroa.ai

Role Description

As a US Indirect Tax Lead, you will drive key initiatives, solve complex challenges, and collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to help our clients scale and succeed. You'll join the Finance (Tax) team at a company of about 100 people on a mission to deliver everyone a sustainable income: a fast-growing platform building the infrastructure for the next generation of internet entrepreneurs. Most of the team are former founders and entrepreneurs. The company gives people real agency, meaningful resources, ownership of hard problems, and direct access to company leaders in a high-trust environment, and expects everyone to move fast, tell the truth, and improve every surface they touch.

• Own US sales and use tax compliance across all states and local jurisdictions, leveraging tax engines to monitor economic nexus and manage registrations, returns, remittances, exemption certificates, and reconciliations to the general ledger.
• Lead taxability studies for new products, and manage communications with tax engine providers and outside advisors to deliver well-supported tax analysis and positions.
• Own the integration of the tax engine with the company's checkout and payments stack: product tax code mapping, sourcing and situs logic, exemption handling, and testing and validation of calculation results.
• Research, conclude on, and document tax positions, including the company's tax role in each transaction flow, sourcing, bundling, and exposure analysis, in memos that withstand auditor and diligence scrutiny.
• Lead audit support and defense end to end: information document requests, sampling, workpapers, managed audit and VDA negotiations, and appeals where warranted.
• Quantify, reserve for, and remediate historical exposure through voluntary disclosure agreements and amnesty programs, and support ASC 450 reserve analysis.
• Partner with Engineering, Data, Legal, Product, and Finance so indirect tax implications are identified before products, pricing, or payment flows ship.
• Implement AI into individual steps of tax workflows, with appropriate controls, review, and documentation around each use.
• Build and maintain the policies, process narratives, controls, tools, and documentation that make the function repeatable and audit-ready.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of progressive US sales and use tax experience, with hands-on ownership of multistate compliance for a high-volume business. A marketplace, payments, fintech, SaaS, or digital goods environment is preferred.
• Extensive hands-on experience integrating a tax engine (such as Avalara, Vertex, Numeral, or similar) with checkout, billing, or ERP systems, including product tax code mapping, sourcing logic, and testing.
• Demonstrated experience leading taxability studies across digital products, SaaS, and services, and translating conclusions into system rules.
• A track record drafting tax position memos and exposure analyses, and defending them with state auditors, external advisors, and financial-statement auditors.
• Direct experience leading state sales and use tax audits from opening conference through close, including sampling negotiations, VDAs, and appeals.
• Big Four, in-house industry, or state tax authority auditor experience preferred.
• A track record of proactively using AI tools to refine or create new processes, with demonstrated, significant gains in speed.
• The judgment to distinguish routine compliance decisions from positions requiring technical analysis, escalation, or outside counsel.
• Be technical: your work is correct, grounded in fact, and able to withstand scrutiny.
• Force function: you solve the root cause and make the system materially better.
• Disagree then commit: you debate hard before a decision, then execute together with the team.

Requirements

• Legal Background: JD, LLM in Taxation, or other law background.
• Certifications: CPA or CMI (Certified Member of the Institute for Professionals in Taxation).
• Specialized Tax Knowledge: Marketplace facilitator law, digital products taxation, or telecom and communications taxes.
• Technical Exposure: Comfort working with SQL or large transaction datasets.

Benefits

• High visibility, fast-paced learning, and ownership over real client outcomes.
• We embrace modern technology, AI workflows, and smart automation internally and externally.
• Work with a team that values output, creative problem-solving, and work-life harmony.

Equal Opportunity & Diversity

At Veroa, we celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive, supportive environment for all team members. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. Bring your authentic self, we can’t wait to meet you!

A Quick Note for Applicants

Thank you so much for taking the time to apply and share your story with us. Because of the high volume of applications we receive, we are only able to reach out directly to shortlisted candidates. However, please know that we review every application with care and genuinely appreciate your interest in joining our team. Keep shining, and we wish you all the best in your career journey!