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Posted May 8Director, Tax
at Deepgram
United StatesRemote
Responsibilities
- Build the registration and compliance roadmap and execute it. - Define and defend US federal tax positions — R&D credit (§41), §174, capitalized software, equity comp deductions, pre-IPO restructuring. - Build our international tax foundation.
Requirements
- COMPANY OVERVIEW Deepgram is the leading platform underpinning the emerging trillion-dollar Voice AI economy, providing real-time APIs for speech-to-text (STT), text-to-speech (TTS), and building production-grade voice agents at scale.
- COMPANY OPERATING RHYTHM At Deepgram, we expect an AI-first mindset—AI use and comfort aren’t optional, they’re core to how we operate, innovate, and measure performance.
- Every team member who works at Deepgram is expected to actively use and experiment with advanced AI tools, and even build your own into your everyday work.
- We measure how effectively AI is applied to deliver results, and consistent, creative use of the latest AI capabilities is key to success here.
- Candidates should be comfortable adopting new models and modes quickly, integrating AI into their workflows, and continuously pushing the boundaries of what these technologies can do.
- Additionally, we move at the pace of AI.
- At Deepgram we expect an AI-first mindset.
- AI use isn't optional — it's core to how we operate.
- Every team member is expected to use and experiment with advanced AI tools, and build their own into everyday work.
- We're not yet running a provision; you'll stand it up as audit prep requires it. - Lay the foundation for public-company tax disclosure and SOX readiness — workflows, controls, and calendars to support 10-K / 10-Q tax footnotes. - Use AI extensively — research, memo drafting, nexus analysis, transfer pricing benchmarking, peer disclosure scraping, workflow automation — and build your own tooling where it helps. - Build the team as we scale.
- WHAT YOU'LL NEED - Active CPA, JD with tax LLM, or MST.
- Experience managing external auditors and tax consultants — scope, direct, push back. - Comfort vibe-coding scripts and small automations (Python, SQL, or equivalent) — for nexus monitoring, provision tie-outs, exposure modeling, pulling structured data from messy sources.
- We're looking for a leader who'll write the scripts that replace the work, not just describe what should be automated. - A builder's instinct — comfort with ambiguity, no waiting for playbooks, strong bias to ship. - AI-native working style — you use LLMs daily and can talk concretely about what they do well and where they fall short for tax. - Strong written and verbal communication — you can translate tax for non-tax stakeholders without losing precision. - High integrity, high ownership, low ego.