Hiring: Director, Tax Company: Kickstarter Location: Connecticut, United States Job Posted Time: 2026-09-15 11:39:11 About the job Required Skills: •In This Role, You Will Qualifications: •You have extensive experience in indirect tax leadership, ideally including time at a two-sided marketplace or platform business, with an understanding of how those models complicate tax treatment. •You have hands-on technical proficiency with Avalara and comparable tax engines, not just oversight, but the ability to work inside the tooling to configure, troubleshoot, and improve it. •You have Big 4 accounting experience at the Senior Manager level or above, or equivalent experience at a top law firm, with a track record built in fast-paced, high-precision environments. •You have experience working at companies both big and small, and understand how tax function needs change as a company scales. •You have experience building training and enablement for internal, non-tax-expert audiences in partnership with Finance and Legal, helping teams outside of tax make sound day-to-day decisions. •You have deep technical grounding in how tax code actually works, and you’re pragmatic in your approach to tax. You’re able to quickly discern what's real and actionable risk versus theoretical risk. •You have strong instincts for audit preparedness, with experience building the documentation and processes that make audits smoother rather than scrambling when one arrives. •You are comfortable operating with ambiguity and determined to find the right path forward. This role requires sound judgment where the "right answer" isn't written down anywhere yet. •You are a builder: someone who wants to construct the tax function's team, technology, and processes from the ground up, not just maintain what exists. •You are collaborative, with experience partnering closely with Product, Legal, and other departments to build solutions together rather than issuing top-down rulings. Compensation: •$185,000 - $225,000 / year Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!