Senior Tax and Filings Manager
Numeral (YC W23)
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: San Francisco • California • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $165,000 - $200,000 per year
Job Level
Senior
About the role
- Lead and manage the filings team: Provide performance management, mentorship, and support to drive high-quality work and accountability.
- Scale processes: Maximize automation to reduce repetitive tasks so teams can focus on highest leverage opportunities. Develop playbooks, reporting structures, and metrics to improve throughput, quality, and visibility across the distributed team.
- Drive operational excellence: Design, implement, and refine workflows and processes across filings, customer support, and client teams to ensure accuracy, efficiency, and compliance.
- Ensure compliance and accuracy: Troubleshoot discrepancies in accounting or filings, and lead research projects on new regulatory rules.
- Partner cross-functionally: Work closely with product and engineering to communicate business issues, escalate risks, and contribute to operational solutions.
Requirements
- 7+ years of demonstrated domain expertise in U.S. tax filings; international experience a plus.
- Proven experience managing distributed teams, ideally in operations-heavy roles, with strong performance management and process implementation skills.
- Experience building scalable processes in a startup, high-growth environment or consulting firm.
- Experience in e-commerce, SaaS of Fintech is highly preferred.
- Familiarity with regulatory reporting systems, tools, or platforms used in finance and filings.
- Strong analytical and Excel/data skills, with the ability to troubleshoot complex discrepancies.
- Excellent communication skills — able to convey complex issues clearly to leadership and cross-functional teams.
- Critical thinker with a proactive problem-solving mindset, comfortable working in a fast-growing startup.
- Proven ability to work cross functionally with product and engineering.
Benefits
- Be a core builder in an ambitious, globally minded startup.
- Learn hands-on how to scale international compliance systems.
- Work across functions and with leadership early in your career.
- Make a visible impact immediately through enablement and operational design.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
U.S. tax filingsperformance managementprocess implementationregulatory reportinganalytical skillsExceldata analysistroubleshootingworkflow designautomation
Soft skills
mentorshipcommunicationcritical thinkingproblem-solvingaccountabilitycollaborationleadershiporganizational skillsproactive mindsetadaptability