Deepgram

Director, Tax

USA | Remote · Director

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 75 days ago

PythonSQLLLMsComplianceAccountingTaxAuditingResearchCommunicationCollaborationTax ProvisionTransfer PricingInternal Audit

About the role

Deepgram's voice-native foundation models are accessed through cloud APIs or as self-hosted and on-premises software, with unmatched accuracy, low latency, and cost efficiency.
There is no organization in the world that understands voice better than Deepgram.
At Deepgram, we expect an AI-first mindset-AI use and comfort aren't optional, they're core to how we operate, innovate, and measure performance.

Build the sales and use tax operating model - taxability, nexus monitoring, registrations, returns, exemption certificates. Strong opinions on the right tooling.
When the time comes, build our first ASC 740 provision from scratch - workpapers, footnotes, disclosures, tie-outs - with the rigor an external audit and S-1 require. We're not yet running a provision
Lay the foundation for public-company tax disclosure and SOX readiness - workflows, controls, and calendars to support 10-K / 10-Q tax footnotes.
Use AI extensively - research, memo drafting, nexus analysis, transfer pricing benchmarking, peer disclosure scraping, workflow automation - and build your own tooling where it helps.
Build the team as we scale.
When the time comes, build our first ASC 740 provision from scratch - workpapers, footnotes, disclosures, tie-outs - with the rigor an external audit and S-1 require.

You can take a gnarly issue and come back with a defensible position you reasoned through yourself.
Experience preparing or rebuilding tax provisions, footnotes, and disclosures from scratch - not just reviewing them.
Experience managing external auditors and tax consultants - scope, direct, push back.
Comfort vibe-coding scripts and small automations (Python, SQL, or equivalent) - for nexus monitoring, provision tie-outs, exposure modeling, pulling structured data from messy sources.
Required, not optional.
Strong written and verbal communication - you can translate tax for non-tax stakeholders without losing precision.
SaaS or AI-business tax experience - capitalized software, sales tax for SaaS, customer-base international expansion.
Working knowledge of provision tools (OneSource, Corptax, Longview), sales tax engines (Avalara, Anrok, Vertex), and research platforms - and strong opinions about them.
We're early in our international exposure and you'll be the one who builds it; experience at a company that's done this before is required.

8+ years of progressive corporate tax experience.
Deep fluency in US federal and multi-state, plus hands-on international tax - transfer pricing, IP structuring, GILTI/FDII, intercompany.
experience at a company that's done this before is required.

Partner with the Director, Technical Accounting & FR on equity comp (ASC 718 / IRC 409A), business combinations (ASC 805 / §338, PPAs), capitalized software, and complex financing instruments.
Hands-on technical range across what'll define our audit and S-1 - federal positions including R&D credit and §174, multi-state SALT, indirect tax, equity-comp tax, ASC 740.
Multi-state employee mobility, RSU/ISO equity-comp tax mobility, and §83(b) coordination at scale.

We're looking for a leader who'll write the scripts that replace the work, not just describe what should be automated.

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