Whop
International Indirect Tax Lead
Palo Alto, CA · Full-time · Posted Oct 8, 2026
- Experience
- 12+ years of progressive international indirect tax experience across VAT, GST, and digital services regimes.
About the job
Leads Whop’s international indirect tax function, overseeing VAT, GST, and digital services tax compliance, systems, tax positions, audits, and process development.
What you'll do
- Manage international registrations, returns, remittances, e-invoicing, reporting, and general-ledger reconciliations.
- Integrate the tax engine with checkout and payments, lead taxability analysis, and document tax positions.
- Lead audit defense and historical exposure remediation, and build repeatable, audit-ready processes.
What they ask for
- Extensive hands-on experience leading global indirect tax registrations, including OSS/IOSS and non-resident simplified regimes.
- Extensive hands-on experience integrating a tax engine with checkout, billing, or ERP systems.
- Experience leading digital-product taxability studies and translating conclusions into system rules.
- Experience drafting tax position memos and exposure analyses, and leading global indirect tax audits and inquiries.
Nice to have
- Marketplace, payments, fintech, SaaS, or digital goods experience; Big Four, in-house, or tax authority auditor background.
- Proactive use of AI tools with significant speed gains; SQL or large transaction dataset experience is a nice-to-have.
Tools
Avalara, Vertex, Numeral, Fonoa, SQL, ASC 450, OSS/IOSS, DAC7
AI focus
Use AI in tax workflow steps with appropriate controls, review, and documentation; the posting also seeks demonstrated use of AI tools to improve processes and significantly increase speed.
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