deepgram - Director, Tax
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Requirements
• Active CPA, JD with tax LLM, or MST. Big 4 or national firm tax foundation. • 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. 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. • 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. 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. We're looking for a leader who'll write the scripts that replace the work, not just describe what should be automated. • A builder's instinct — comfort with ambiguity, no waiting for playbooks, strong bias to ship. • AI-native working style — you use LLMs daily and can talk concretely about what they do well and where they fall short for tax. • Strong written and verbal communication — you can translate tax for non-tax stakeholders without losing precision. • High integrity, high ownership, low ego. • IT WOULD BE GREAT IF YOU HAD • Prior experience preparing a company for its first external audit and S-1 / IPO. • Prior experience standing up an in-house tax function at a high-growth company. • SaaS or AI-business tax experience — capitalized software, sales tax for SaaS, customer-base international expansion. • Multi-state employee mobility, RSU/ISO equity-comp tax mobility, and §83(b) coordination at scale. • Working knowledge of provision tools (OneSource, Corptax, Longview), sales tax engines (Avalara, Anrok, Vertex), and research platforms — and strong opinions about them.
Responsibilities
• Deepgram is hiring a Director, Tax to stand up our tax function from foundation and run it through our first external audit and into public markets. You'll be our first dedicated tax hire — reporting directly with the CAO and working directly alongside our CFO and our small finance team, building from a clean slate supported by outside advisors. • There's a lot to figure out. You'll set the tax positions, scope and direct external advisors, and be the senior technical voice with our auditors, the IRS, and state revenue agencies. • At Deepgram we expect an AI-first mindset. AI use isn't optional — it's core to how we operate. Every team member is expected to use and experiment with advanced AI tools, and build their own into everyday work. • Stand up the tax function from foundation. You're our first dedicated tax hire, working from a clean slate with outside advisors. Set the operating model, the positions, the calendar, the tooling. • Own the multi-state nexus picture — payroll, customer, and economic nexus across our remote workforce and customer footprint. Build the registration and compliance roadmap and execute it. • Define and defend US federal tax positions — R&D credit (§41), §174, capitalized software, equity comp deductions, pre-IPO restructuring. • Build our international tax foundation. We're early in global expansion and you'll own the design from the ground up — transfer pricing model and intercompany agreements, IP location and migration, GILTI/FDII, entity structure, permanent establishment risk. • Build the sales and use tax operating model — taxability, nexus monitoring, registrations, returns, exemption certificates. Strong opinions on the right tooling. • Quarterback external tax advisors — direct, scope, and decide what stays in-house. Today: Big 4 federal compliance. You'll scope SALT, international, and transfer pricing engagements as needed. • 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. • 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; you'll stand it up as audit prep requires it. • 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.
Benefits
• HOLISTIC HEALTH • Annual wellness stipend • Mental health support • Life, STD, LTD Income Insurance Plans • WORK/LIFE BLEND • Unlimited PTO • Generous paid parental leave • Flexible schedule • 12 Paid US company holidays • Quarterly personal productivity stipend • One-time stipend for home office upgrades • 401(k) plan with company match • Tax Savings Programs • CONTINUOUS LEARNING • Learning / Education stipend • Participation in talks and conferences • Employee Resource Groups • AI enablement workshops / sessions • For candidates outside of the US, we use an Employer of Record model in many countries, which means benefits are administered locally and governed by country-specific regulations. Because of this, benefits will differ by region — in some cases international employees receive benefits US employees do not, and vice versa. As we scale, we will continue to evaluate where we can create more alignment, but a 1:1 global benefits structure is not always legally or operationally possible. • Backed by prominent investors including Y Combinator, Madrona, Tiger Global, Wing VC and NVIDIA, Deepgram has raised over $215M in total funding. If you're looking to work on cutting-edge technology and make a significant impact in the AI industry, we'd love to hear from you!
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