Whop
US Indirect Tax Lead
Palo Alto, CA · Full-time · Posted Oct 2, 2026
- Experience
- 12+ years of progressive US sales and use tax experience.
About the job
Own and scale Whop’s US indirect tax function, covering sales and use tax compliance, taxability, tax engine integration, tax positions, and audit defense.
What you'll do
- Manage multistate compliance, including nexus monitoring, registrations, returns, remittances, exemption certificates, and reconciliations.
- Lead taxability analysis, tax engine integration, tax position documentation, and audit defense.
- Partner across teams to address tax implications and build repeatable, audit-ready processes, including controlled use of AI.
What they ask for
- 12+ years of progressive US sales and use tax experience, including hands-on multistate compliance ownership for a high-volume business.
- Hands-on tax engine integration experience, including tax code mapping, sourcing logic, and testing.
- Experience leading taxability studies and translating conclusions into system rules.
- Experience drafting tax position memos and exposure analyses, and leading state sales and use tax audits, including sampling negotiations, VDAs, and appeals.
Nice to have
- Big Four, in-house industry, or state tax authority auditor experience.
- SQL or large transaction dataset experience; JD, LLM in Taxation, law background, CPA, CMI, or relevant marketplace, digital product, or communications tax experience.
Tools
Avalara, Vertex, Numeral, SQL, ASC 450
AI focus
Use AI in individual tax workflow steps with controls, review, and documentation; the posting also seeks proactive AI use to improve processes and speed.
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