Senior Manager, Indirect Tax

About Us:

Fireworks is the platform for specialized intelligence, enabling companies to build, train, and serve AI models tailored to their own data, workflows, and products. Founded by the team behind PyTorch and backed by AMD, Atreides, Benchmark Capital, Index Ventures, Lightspeed, NVIDIA, Sequoia Capital, and TCV, Fireworks powers production AI with hundreds of state-of-the-art open models across text, image, embedding, audio, and multimodal workloads.

Today, Fireworks is a Series D company valued at $17.5 billion, bringing together an ambitious, collaborative team that's building the future of enterprise AI.

We are seeking an experienced Senior Manager, Indirect Tax to lead and manage the organization’s indirect tax function. This role will be responsible for indirect tax compliance, reporting, planning, audits, and risk management, while serving as a key advisor to Finance, Accounting, Legal, Operations, and other business stakeholders.

The successful candidate will bring strong technical expertise in indirect taxation, excellent judgment, and the ability to translate complex tax requirements into practical business solutions. This role is well suited to a tax professional who can operate strategically while maintaining strong oversight of day-to-day compliance and execution.

• Lead and oversee indirect tax compliance activities, including sales and use tax, VAT/GST, excise taxes, and other transaction-based taxes
  , as applicable.

• Ensure accurate and timely preparation, review, and filing of indirect tax returns and related payments.

• Maintain appropriate controls, documentation, reconciliations, and supporting work papers for indirect tax accounts.

• Monitor filing obligations, registrations, nexus requirements, and changes in the organization’s tax footprint.

• Oversee third-party service providers supporting indirect tax compliance and reporting.

• Serve as the organization’s subject-matter expert on indirect tax matters.

• Advise business partners on the indirect tax implications of new products, services, customer arrangements, geographic expansion, supply-chain changes, and other strategic initiatives.

• Research and interpret complex indirect tax legislation, regulations, and administrative guidance.

• Identify opportunities to improve tax efficiency, reduce risk, and recover overpaid taxes where appropriate.

• Partner with Legal and Finance teams on contracts and commercial arrangements to ensure appropriate indirect tax treatment.

• Lead indirect tax audits, examinations, inquiries, and correspondence with tax authorities.

• Develop audit strategies and coordinate responses, documentation, and negotiations with relevant authorities.

• Proactively identify areas of indirect tax exposure and implement appropriate remediation plans.

• Maintain and enhance the organization’s indirect tax control framework and ensure appropriate governance over key tax processes.

• Monitor legislative and regulatory developments and assess their impact on the business.

• Partner with Finance, Accounting, IT, and Operations to ensure appropriate indirect tax configuration within ERP, billing, procurement, and tax determination systems.

• Drive automation and process improvements to increase the accuracy, scalability, and efficiency of indirect tax processes.

• Support system implementations, upgrades, integrations, and business transformation initiatives from an indirect tax perspective.

• Improve the use of data and analytics for compliance, reconciliations, audit defense, and tax risk management.

• Manage, coach, and develop indirect tax team members, as…