Global Indirect Tax Manager (AI)

Location: San Mateo, United States; hybrid workplace

Salary: $170,000–$190,000 per year

Company

Fireworks AI provides a platform for building, training, and serving specialized AI models for enterprise data, workflows, and products. The company is a Series D organization developing production AI infrastructure and model-serving technology.

What you will do

• Own indirect tax compliance, including sales and use tax, VAT/GST, excise taxes, returns, payments, reconciliations, workpapers, registrations, and nexus monitoring.
• Advise Finance, Accounting, Legal, Operations, and other stakeholders on the tax impact of products, services, customer arrangements, geographic expansion, supply-chain changes, contracts, and commercial initiatives.
• Research indirect tax legislation and identify opportunities to improve tax efficiency, recover overpaid taxes, and reduce risk.
• Lead indirect tax audits, examinations, inquiries, authority correspondence, documentation, negotiations, and remediation plans.
• Maintain the indirect tax control and governance framework while monitoring legislative and regulatory developments.
• Partner with Finance, Accounting, IT, and Operations on ERP, billing, procurement, tax determination systems, automation, data analytics, implementations, and process improvements.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Taxation, Business, or a related field.
• 5+ years of progressive tax experience with significant indirect taxation experience.
• Strong technical knowledge of sales and use tax and/or VAT/GST; additional indirect tax experience is advantageous.
• Experience managing indirect tax compliance, audits, research, and advisory matters.
• Strong understanding of accounting processes, financial systems, and internal controls.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, project-management, and communication skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and complex projects in a fast-paced environment and influence stakeholders across functions and organizational levels.

Nice to have

• CPA, CA, JD, LLM, or another relevant professional qualification.
• Experience in a Big Four or public accounting firm, multinational organization, or complex corporate tax environment.
• Experience with ERP and indirect tax platforms such as NetSuite, Anrok, Vertex, or similar systems.
• Strategic, commercial, and risk-based approach with the ability to simplify complex tax concepts into actionable recommendations.
• Hands-on leadership experience, process improvement skills, and experience building scalable tax processes and strengthening controls.

Culture & Benefits

• Work in a fast-growing AI company focused on solving complex infrastructure and model-serving problems.
• Collaborate with engineers, AI researchers, Finance, Legal, Operations, and other business stakeholders.
• Operate in an evolving environment with ownership, direct impact, and a focus on scalable processes.
• Inclusive, equal-opportunity workplace committed to diversity.