Finance Systems, Tax Technology Lead

About Anthropic

Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.

Anthropic is seeking an experienced Tax Technology Lead to build and optimize our global tax technology infrastructure as we scale our AI services globally. This role will be critical in implementing and managing tax engine systems while bridging the gap between tax compliance requirements and engineering capabilities. You’ll own the technology strategy for indirect tax (sales and use tax, VAT, and GST) compliance across our rapidly growing digital product portfolio, with the long-term scope expanding to include income tax compliance and direct tax provision software implementation.

• Act as the Tax Point of Contact for business teams, handling and responding to day-to-day tax queries with a solutions-oriented mindset.
• Enhance the implementation of tax determination engine integrated with our billing and finance systems.
• Configure tax engines across multiple finance modules, ensuring accurate tax calculation, reporting, and compliance for SaaS and digital products.
• Design and document technical requirements for tax functionality, including system architecture, data flows, and integration points.
• Lead future implementation of income tax compliance and direct tax provision software (e.g., One Source Tax Provision, Corp Tax, or similar).
• Own the tax technology roadmap, identifying opportunities for automation and process improvement.

• Partner with Engineering, Finance, Accounting, and Product teams to translate complex tax requirements into technical specifications.
• Serve as the primary liaison between Tax and Technology teams, ensuring alignment on tax compliance needs.
• Coordinate with Finance Systems team to create tax product requirements, manage testing protocols, and support change management initiatives.
• Work with external tax advisors and software vendors to evaluate solutions and resolve technical challenges.

• Develop and maintain tax determination logic for US sales and use tax.
• Configure and manage VAT/GST rules for international jurisdictions including EU, APAC, and emerging markets.
• Design testing strategies to ensure accuracy and quality of tax calculations across all transaction types.
• Monitor nexus thresholds and implement automated compliance workflows.
• Support long-term roadmap for income tax compliance automation and ASC 740 tax provision software.
• Collaborate with income tax team to understand data requirements for provision calculations and compliance reporting.

• Build data analytics capabilities to support tax compliance, reconciliation, audit defense, and strategic decision-making.
• Create comprehensive documentation including technical design specs, process flows, and operational procedures.
• Implement SOX controls related to tax technology systems.
• Generate reports for tax filings, reconciliations, and management review.
• Ability to incorporate Claude (AI) into tax automation needs.

• 7+ years of experience in tax technology, with at least 3-5 years focused on tax engine implementations (Vertex, Anorak, Avalara, or similar).
• Deep expertise in US sales and use tax and global VAT/GST compliance for digital services and SaaS businesses.
• Proven track record of successful tax system implementations in ERP environments (Workday Financials, or similar).
• Strong technical aptitude with ability to work directly with engineering teams on system configurations and integrations.
• Experience gathering business requirements and translating them into functional and technical specifications.
• Knowledge of tax compliance processes including determination, reporting, filing, and remittance.
• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Information Technology, Computer Science, or related field.