Why Ryan?
Hybrid Work Options
Award-Winning Culture
Generous Personal Time Off (PTO) Benefits
14-Weeks of 100% Paid Leave for New Parents (Adoption Included)
Monthly Gym Membership Reimbursement OR Gym Equipment Reimbursement
Benefits Eligibility Effective Day One
401K with Employer Match
Tuition Reimbursement After One Year of Service
Fertility Assistance Program
Four-Week Company-Paid Sabbatical Eligibility After Five Years of Service
Duties and responsibilities, as they align to Ryan’s Key Results
People:
- Provides legal expertise where needed.
- Hires, trains, and manages legal staff.
- Provides ongoing professional guidance and direction to direct reports from the Legal department.
Client:
- Develop forms, tools and methods of communication necessary to engage clients.
- Participate in marketing training with service delivery professionals.
- Draft, send, receive, record, and track specific prospective and client engagement agreements.
- Work with Ryan professionals to develop, create marketing programs and websites. This includes preparation of talking points for client referrals and drafting marketing referral materials.
Practice of Tax Law
- Provide legal analysis and advice to third party Ryan clients and supervise other attorneys and paralegals in providing legal services to outside clients.
- Manage and have oversight of various tax domain services offered by Ryan, including property tax, transaction tax, severance tax, and federal taxes.
- Representing clients in tax appeal matters including contacting prospects, negotiating Legal Services Agreements, recommending appeals and lawsuits, seeking client approvals for appeals, communicating result, and obtaining approvals from clients.
- Engaging co-counsel for local services and supervising work performed by co-counsel.
- Supervise professional tax training for attorneys and staff and require them to maintain their state professional licensing requirements to provide legal advice on various legal issues.
Education/Experience:
- Four-year bachelor's degree.
- Juris doctorate from an accredited law school.
- One-year master’s degree in taxation or equivalent.
- At least twenty years’ experience as a practicing tax attorney.
- Active member of the State Bar of Arizona.
- No character or fitness violations from any state bar association or supreme court.
Computer Skills:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must have intermediate skills in Microsoft® Word, Excel, Access, Outlook, and Internet navigation and research.
Certificates and Licenses:
License to practice law in the State of Arizona required. Membership to the American Bar Association preferred.
Supervisory Responsibilities:
Directly supervises Paralegals and Associate Attorneys. Carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the Firm’s policies and applicable laws.
Work Environment:
- Standard indoor working environment.
- Extended periods of sitting while working at computer.
- Position requires regular interaction with employees at all levels.
- Independent travel requirement: Less than 10%.
- Willingness to work non-standard hours to accommodate global time zones as needed.
Equal Opportunity Employer: disability/veteran
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Skills Required
- Four-year bachelor's degree
- Juris Doctorate from an accredited law school
- One-year master's degree in taxation or equivalent
- At least twenty years of experience as a practicing tax attorney
- Active membership in the State Bar of Arizona
- No character or fitness violations from any state bar association or supreme court
- License to practice law in Arizona
- Intermediate skills in Microsoft Word, Excel, Access, Outlook, and internet navigation and research
- American Bar Association membership
Ryan Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Ryan and has not been reviewed or approved by Ryan.
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Flexible Benefits — The myRyan model provides results-based flexibility for exempt staff alongside hybrid/remote options, while non‑exempt roles use a PTO bank and receive paid holidays. Many benefits are available from the date of hire, reinforcing practical flexibility in how benefits are used.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave, adoption assistance, and fertility support are highlighted as meaningful family-oriented offerings. Consistent emphasis on family-friendly policies positions this area as a standout.
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Strong & Reliable Incentives — A performance-driven culture offers bonuses and commissions in certain tracks, with role descriptions noting meaningful variable pay beyond base salary. Total compensation is often characterized as strong where these incentives are prominent.
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What We Do
Ryan is a tax services firm providing tax advisory and consulting services on a multi-jurisdictional basis. Ryan, an award-winning global tax services and software provider, is the largest Firm in the world dedicated exclusively to business taxes. With global headquarters in Dallas, Texas, the Firm provides an integrated suite of federal, state, local, and international tax services on a multijurisdictional basis, including tax recovery, consulting, advocacy, compliance, and technology services. Ryan is a seven-time recipient of the International Service Excellence Award from the Customer Service Institute of America (CSIA) for its commitment to world-class client service. Empowered by the dynamic myRyan work environment, which is widely recognized as the most innovative in the tax services industry, Ryan’s multidisciplinary team of more than 2,500 professionals and associates serves over 14,000 clients in more than 50 countries, including many of the world’s most prominent Global 5000 companies.
