Global Tax Lead (AI)

Location: Hybrid in San Francisco, California, United States, with in-office attendance 2 days per week

Annual base salary: $185,000–$200,000 USD, plus discretionary bonus, equity, and benefits

Company

hirify.global builds an end-to-end platform for developing, training, and deploying AI systems and combines developer-focused software with large-scale AI compute infrastructure.

What you will do

• Build and own the corporate tax function across the multi-entity consolidated group.
• Establish tax policies, documentation, controls, procedures, and a multi-year tax operating roadmap.
• Lead U.S. federal and state income tax compliance, including the first consolidated federal return, California combined reporting, and multi-state nexus analysis.
• Oversee sales and use, gross receipts, and property tax compliance across the company’s customer, data center, GPU, and equipment footprint.
• Own quarterly and annual tax provision work under U.S. GAAP and ASC 740, including deferred tax positions, effective tax rate analyses, and uncertain tax position documentation.
• Support acquisitions, financing, restructuring, audits, tax forecasting, risk mitigation, and cross-functional decision-making with Finance, Accounting, FP&A, Legal, Engineering, auditors, and external advisors.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field; CPA or MST is strongly preferred.
• 8+ years of progressive corporate tax experience, including Big 4 public accounting and in-house experience.
• Strong knowledge of U.S. federal and state corporate income tax compliance, consolidated returns, California combined reporting, multi-state apportionment, separate-filing exposure, and addback rules.
• Experience with ASC 740, tax provisions, deferred tax accounting, effective tax rate analysis, M&A tax, purchase accounting, opening balance sheets, carryforward analysis, and post-merger integration.
• Experience establishing or significantly rebuilding a tax function, preferably in a startup, post-merger integration, carve-out, AI, cloud, infrastructure, or other capital-intensive technology environment.
• Experience with tax provision and compliance tools such as OneSource, Corptax, or similar, plus the ability to communicate complex tax matters to executives and non-tax stakeholders.

Nice to have

• Experience with GPU financing, vendor financing, complex capital structures, or multi-state intercompany pricing.
• Experience supporting a first-year audit or significant compliance remediation.
• Property tax experience involving data centers, GPUs, or equipment-intensive infrastructure.
• Knowledge of capex-heavy fixed assets, complex revenue arrangements, and leases under ASC 842.

Culture & Benefits

• Fast-paced, ownership-oriented environment focused on building scalable systems and improving continuously.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and eligible dependents.
• RSUs, 401(k) matching in the U.S., flexible time off, company holidays, and a two-week company-wide winter break.
• Paid parental and family leave, annual learning and development allowance, wellness and work-from-home stipends, and complimentary office meals.
• Four weeks of paid sabbatical leave after four years of service.