Whop - International Indirect Tax Lead

• 12+ years of progressive international indirect tax experience across VAT, GST, and digital services regimes; marketplace, payments, fintech, SaaS, or digital goods environment preferred. • Extensive hands-on experience leading global indirect tax registrations across many jurisdictions, including OSS/IOSS and non-resident simplified regimes. • Extensive hands-on experience integrating a tax engine (such as Avalara, Vertex, Numeral, Fonoa, or similar) with checkout, billing, or ERP systems, including tax code mapping, location evidence, and reverse charge logic. • Demonstrated experience leading taxability studies for digital products, SaaS, and services, and translating conclusions into system rules. • A track record drafting tax position memos and exposure analyses, and defending them with tax authorities, external advisors, and financial-statement auditors. • Direct experience leading global indirect tax audits and inquiries from first request through close, including error corrections, voluntary disclosures, and appeals. • Big Four, in-house industry, or tax authority auditor experience preferred. • A track record of proactively using AI tools to refine or create new processes with demonstrated, significant gains in speed. Comfort working with SQL or large transaction datasets is a nice to have. • The judgment to distinguish routine compliance decisions from positions requiring technical analysis, escalation, or outside counsel. • JD, LLM in Taxation, or other law background. • CPA, CTA, ADIT, or equivalent professional qualification. • Platform and deemed supplier rules, e-invoicing mandates, or DAC7 and other platform reporting. • Working proficiency in a second language. • How we work • How we work • Whop is an in office company of about 100 people. Most of the team are former founders and entrepreneurs. We give people real agency, meaningful resources, and ownership of hard problems. We expect everyone to move fast, tell the truth, and improve every surface they touch. • Be technical. Your work should be correct, grounded in fact, and able to withstand scrutiny • Be technical. • Force function. Solve the root cause and make the system materially better • Force function. • Disagree then commit. Debate hard before a decision, then execute together • Disagree then commit. • What Whop offers • What Whop offers • Best in class cash compensation and meaningful equity • A high trust environment with real ownership and direct access to company leaders • Meals, wellness support, and office benefits designed for an in-person team • Equal opportunity • Equal opportunity