Senior Manager, Indirect Tax (Gaming)

Location: Hybrid, based in Culver City or San Francisco, California, United States; two days per week from the office.

Annual base salary: $137,700–$202,000 USD for candidates in California, Colorado, New Jersey, New York, and Washington. Employees may also be eligible for equity, bonuses, healthcare, retirement benefits, pet insurance, paid holidays, paid hirify.global free days, and unlimited paid time off.

Company

hirify.global is a global video game and interactive entertainment company that creates, develops, publishes, and live-operates mobile, web, PC, and console games.

What you will do

• Manage global indirect tax compliance, including filings, payments, registrations, and renewals across U.S. sales and use tax, VAT/GST, digital services tax, gross receipts tax, and other transaction-based taxes.
• Prepare or review indirect tax accruals, balances, reconciliations, and financial reporting across the U.S., EMEA, APAC, and other markets.
• Advise on nexus, registration, taxability, and reporting for digital products, in-app purchases, subscriptions, web sales, promotions, live operations, merchandise, events, and other commercial initiatives.
• Evaluate tax implications of app stores, payment providers, merchant-of-record arrangements, distribution channels, licensing agreements, new market launches, and M&A activities.
• Improve tax processes across ERP, billing, and e-commerce systems through configuration, testing, reporting, data-quality improvements, and implementation of Avalara or Vertex.
• Coordinate audits, notices, inquiries, regulatory research, remediation, internal controls, automation, and scalable compliance workflows while supporting the VP, Global Tax.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Tax, Finance, or a related field and 7+ years of progressive indirect tax experience, including strong U.S. sales and use tax and international VAT/GST experience.
• Strong technical knowledge of transaction-based taxes, including nexus, taxability, registrations, gross receipts tax, digital services tax, electronically supplied services, and multi-jurisdictional compliance.
• Experience advising on indirect tax matters involving digital products, subscriptions, e-commerce, platform distribution, and merchant-of-record or payment-provider arrangements.
• Strong accounting fundamentals and experience with ERP, billing, e-commerce, or indirect tax technology systems such as Oracle, Avalara, or Vertex.
• Experience coordinating indirect tax compliance, accounting, audits, and regulatory inquiries, including relationships with external advisors, vendors, and tax authorities.
• Advanced Excel skills and confidence working with large transactional data sets to identify discrepancies, assess risks, and develop supported recommendations.
• Strong analytical, research, communication, and stakeholder-management skills, including the ability to explain complex tax matters to Finance, Legal, Engineering, and other business partners.
• Collaborative, hands-on approach, sound judgment, attention to detail, and ability to manage competing priorities while improving processes and supporting business growth.
• Résumé/CV must be written in English.

Nice to have

• CPA, CTA, or equivalent professional qualification.
• Experience combining Big Four or other public accounting work with an in-house tax role.
• Experience supporting a multinational organization across multiple tax jurisdictions.
• Background in gaming, interactive entertainment, digital products, technology, or e-commerce.
• Experience with tax data automation, workflow improvement, or AI-supported productivity tools.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work with two days per week in the office.
• Collaborative work with Finance, Accounting, Legal, Engineering, business teams, external advisors, vendors, and tax authorities.
• Inclusive and supportive work environment with equal employment opportunities.
• Potential equity and bonus eligibility, healthcare and retirement benefits, pet insurance, paid holidays, paid hirify.global free days, and unlimited paid time off.