Senior Manager, Global Indirect Tax

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, US; candidates must reside in or be willing to relocate to Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, or Sonoma County. Relocation assistance may be available.

Base salary: $208,000–$234,000 USD per year, excluding equity and benefits.

Company

Discord is a multiplatform gaming and shared-interests platform used by millions of daily active users and supporting developer businesses.

What you will do

• Lead global indirect tax strategy and advisory for new products, monetization models, market entries, evolving laws, and enterprise initiatives.
• Research complex taxability, sourcing, and emerging business-model issues; document positions in clear, well-supported memoranda.
• Partner with Product, Legal, Finance, Accounting, and Engineering on digital goods, virtual currency, marketplaces, advertising, and subscriptions from design through launch.
• Assess legislative changes, intercompany transactions, entity structures, and acquisitions, balancing tax efficiency, risk, and operational feasibility.
• Oversee tax-system implementation, compliance and returns, audits, controversy, registrations, deregistrations, and voluntary disclosures.
• Advise senior leadership, manage external advisors, and build scalable tax processes, controls, technology, and AI-enabled tools.

Requirements

• 10+ years of global indirect tax experience, including a mix of Big 4 or law-firm and in-house experience at a technology or digital company.
• Deep technical knowledge of US sales and use tax and working knowledge of international VAT/GST, particularly for digital products, SaaS, and platform business models.
• Experience owning complex issues from research through execution and delivering polished, accurate, well-supported work products.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication, including the ability to explain complex tax issues to engineers, product managers, and CFO-level stakeholders.
• Sound judgment and confidence making recommendations in ambiguous situations, with willingness to revisit decisions as facts change.
• Experience with tax engines such as Vertex or similar and translating technical tax positions into system logic.

Nice to have

• JD/LLM, CPA, or equivalent qualification.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time position based in the San Francisco Bay Area.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• 401(k) plan, life and disability insurance, paid time off, and paid parental leave.
• Equity eligibility.
• Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis, with reasonable accommodations available during the interview process.