Manage VAT, GST, and sales tax worldwide with Sphere’s global tax compliance software. Automate registration, calculation, and filing seamlessly. Backed by Y Combinator, a16z and Felicis.
About the role
We're looking for an International Indirect Tax Compliance Specialist to help execute and scale our international tax compliance operations. Working closely with the Compliance Lead and Tax leadership, you'll own the day-to-day filing process for a portfolio of countries and customers, ensuring returns are prepared, reviewed, and submitted accurately and on time. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- 3+ years of experience preparing, reviewing, and filing high volumes of VAT/GST returns across multiple countries, ideally at a Big 4 firm or an outsourced VAT compliance provider covering 10+ countries
- Working knowledge of VAT rules for cross-border trade: place of supply for digital and electronically supplied services, B2B vs B2C treatment, reverse charge, OSS mechanics and VAT number validation
- Solid understanding of return filing processes, reconciliations, and controls
- Hands-on experience with tax authority portals and country-specific filing formats
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with experience collaborating across Finance, Operations, and Engineering teams - we work at an extremely fast pace and so clear, concise communication is essential
- High attention to detail - one of our key values is ‘Sweating the details’ and it is essential in our business
More about this role
Every breakthrough in trade infrastructure has followed the same pattern: reduce a transaction cost, expand the market. Containerization for goods. SWIFT for money. Stripe for payments. Compliance is one of the last and largest — and the hardest, because trade rules aren't data to be looked up. They're a complex adaptive system with 190+ sovereign jurisdictions, in different languages, changing constantly, reacting to each other.
Sphere built the system that solves it. Our AI (TRAM) ingests global trade law, interprets it, resolves conflicts across jurisdictions, and produces compliance determinations more reliable than human experts. We handle the entire lifecycle — calculation, registration, filing, remittance — at millisecond latency with zero downtime.
Backed by a16z and YC. $21M Series A, 30%+ month-over-month growth, customers include ElevenLabs, Replit, Deel, Runway, and Lovable.
Small team, global surface area. Everyone owns a domain that would be a full team at a larger company. San Francisco, five days in office.
The problem keeps compounding. Expanding into input tax, withholding, e-invoicing, tariffs — each multiplies the complexity. Tens of millions of transactions...
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