Director, Tax

🕒 September 14

🌐 United States, United Kingdom – Remote

🇺🇸 United States – Remote 🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

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💵 $185k - $225k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

💰 Tax

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Kickstarter

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2009

👥 B2C

🌍 Social Impact

📱 Media

💰 Series D on 2022-01

B2C • Social Impact • Media

Kickstarter is a crowdfunding platform that allows creators to bring their projects to life with the support of backers. It covers a wide range of categories, including art, comics, design, film, games, and technology. Kickstarter has successfully funded over 270,000 projects, with over $8 billion pledged by backers worldwide. The platform also highlights projects from diverse creators, such as Black, Hispanic, Latin, LGBTQIA+, and others to promote creativity and inclusivity.

📋 Description

• Lead the company’s global indirect tax strategy and set priorities and risk tolerance with Finance and Legal leadership • Build, manage, and develop the tax team, including standards, workflows, and career development paths • Set the roadmap for the tax technology stack, including Avalara, and lead automation and process initiatives • Design and implement indirect tax processes and controls for a marketplace model • Own relationships with external tax advisors across jurisdictions • Advise on tax policy and tax impacts for creators, high-value partners, new offerings, markets, and business models • Oversee the accuracy, timeliness, and integrity of VAT, sales tax, and corporate filings • Evaluate entity structuring and cross-border tax considerations with Legal, Product, and executive leadership • Own transfer pricing policy and documentation across subsidiaries • Lead responses to tax notices and audits, including outside counsel and advisors • Establish reconciliation standards between internal data and filed returns • Direct product testing standards for tax calculation accuracy • Own tax inputs into audited financial statements, technical positions, disclosures, and month-end close • Serve as executive-level tax contact for board and audit committee materials • Set strategy and standards for the tax help center and customer-facing indirect tax content

🎯 Requirements

• Extensive experience in indirect tax leadership, ideally including experience at a two-sided marketplace or platform business • Hands-on technical proficiency with Avalara and comparable tax engines, including configuring, troubleshooting, and improving the tools • Big 4 accounting experience at Senior Manager level or above, or equivalent experience at a top law firm • Experience in both large and small companies, understanding how tax functions change as companies scale • Experience building training and enablement for internal, non-tax-expert audiences in partnership with Finance and Legal • Deep technical grounding in tax code and pragmatic tax-risk assessment • Experience building audit documentation and processes • Comfort operating with ambiguity and exercising sound judgment • Experience building a tax function’s team, technology, and processes • Collaborative experience partnering with Product, Legal, Finance, and other departments

🏖️ Benefits

• Fully virtual team / remote work • Support for employees based in specified US locations and the United Kingdom • Inclusive work environment • Equal opportunity employer • Fair and consistent interview process • Employee growth and success support • Autonomy and space to participate in decisions shaping work and the company