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.
Manage day-to-day indirect tax compliance operations for Anthropic across US sales tax and international VAT/GST jurisdictions. This hands-on role will execute registrations, filings, payments, and maintain compliance processes while working closely with the Global Indirect Tax Lead to implement scalable systems and procedures.
Responsibilities:US Sales Tax Compliance
- Prepare and file sales tax returns across multiple states on monthly, quarterly, and annual filing cycles
- Coordinate sales tax payments and maintain payment schedules to avoid penalties
- Manage sales tax registrations and account maintenance across jurisdictions
- Respond to state tax notices, inquiries, and information requests
- Reconcile sales tax liability accounts and investigate discrepancies
- Maintain exemption certificates and manage customer exemption documentation
- Support nexus studies by tracking business activities and thresholds by state
Global VAT/GST Compliance
- Prepare and submit VAT/GST returns for multiple countries (EU member states, UK, Canada, Australia, India, Japan, etc.)
- Process VAT/GST payments and ensure timely remittance in local currencies
- Manage EC Sales Lists for EU operations
- Maintain VAT registrations and update registration details as needed
- Handle correspondence with foreign tax authorities in multiple languages (or coordinate translation)
- Monitor VAT/GST account balances and process refund claims where applicable
- Support reverse charge and import VAT accounting
Process & Documentation
- Maintain compliance calendars and ensure all filing deadlines are met
- Document compliance procedures and create standard operating procedures
- Assist with monthly/quarterly indirect tax provision calculations
- Reconcile tax accounts between tax systems, ERP, and general ledger
- Support internal and external audits by providing documentation and workpapers
- Track and report key compliance metrics and KPIs
- Identify opportunities for process improvement and automation
- Make enhancements using AI (Claude)
Technology & Data Management
- Work with tax technology platforms (Vertex, Anrok, or similar) for compliance workflows
- Validate tax calculation accuracy and flag system configuration issues
- Support data cleansing initiatives for customer address and tax classification data
- Assist with testing tax system changes and new feature implementations
- Generate compliance reports from tax systems and data sources
- 8+ years of hands-on indirect tax compliance experience covering both US sales tax and international VAT/GST
- Experience with multi-state sales tax and VAT/GST compliance
- Strong understanding of SaaS and digital services taxation
- Experience using automated tax compliance software
- Detail-oriented with excellent organizational skills and ability to manage competing deadlines
- Proficiency with tax technology platforms (Vertex, Avalara, Anrok, or similar)
- Advanced Excel skills including pivot tables, VLOOKUP, and data analysis
- Experience with ERP systems (NetSuite, Workday, or similar)
- Familiarity with billing platforms (Stripe or similar)
- Comfortable working with large datasets and identifying data quality issues and reconciliation with accounting data
- Background in technology or SaaS industry
- Experience at high-growth companies managing scaling compliance obligations
- Prior experience with Big 4 or national tax firm
- Exposure to indirect tax audits and working with tax authorities
- Knowledge of indirect tax in EU, UK, Australia, Canada, and/or APAC markets
- Familiarity with multi-entity compliance and intercompany transactions
- Extreme attention to detail and accuracy
- Strong time management with ability to prioritize multiple filing deadlines
- Self-starter who can work independently with minimal supervision
- Problem-solving mindset to address compliance challenges
- Collaborative team player who can work cross-functionally
- Ability to handle confidential information appropriately
- Adaptable to changing regulations and business requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field
- CPA, CMI, EA, or other relevant certification preferred but not required
The annual compensation range for this role is below. For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role. Our total compensation package for full-time employees includes equity and benefits.
Education requirements: We require at least a Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience.
Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices.
Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.
We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification as listed. Research shows that people who identify as being from underrepresented groups are more prone to experiencing imposter syndrome and doubting the strength of their candidacy, so we urge you not to exclude yourself prematurely and to submit an application if you're interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones we're building have enormous social and ethical implications. We think this makes representation even more important, and we strive to include a range of diverse perspectives on our team.
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We believe that the highest-impact AI research will be big science. At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive team on just a few large-scale research efforts. And we value impact — advancing our long-term goals of steerable, trustworthy AI — rather than work on smaller and more specific puzzles. We view AI research as an empirical science, which has as much in common with physics and biology as with traditional efforts in computer science. We're an extremely collaborative group, and we host frequent research discussions to ensure that we are pursuing the highest-impact work at any given time. As such, we greatly value communication skills.
The easiest way to understand our research directions is to read our recent research. This research continues many of the directions our team worked on prior to Anthropic, including: GPT-3, Circuit-Based Interpretability, Multimodal Neurons, Scaling Laws, AI & Compute, Concrete Problems in AI Safety, and Learning from Human Preferences.
Come work with us!Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues. Guidance on Candidates' AI Usage: Learn about our policy for using AI in our application process
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave is described as notably generous, alongside fertility coverage and other family-oriented supports. These elements broaden the rewards package beyond cash compensation and can improve retention for caregivers.
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Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that’s working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. Our research interests span multiple areas including natural language, human feedback, scaling laws, reinforcement learning, code generation, and interpretability.
