Tax Manager

Tax Manager

At Underdog, we make sports more fun. Our thesis is simple: build the best products and we'll build the biggest company in the space, because there's so much more to be built for sports fans. We're just over five years in, and we're one of the fastest-growing sports companies ever, most recently valued at $1.3B. And it's still the early days.

We've built and scaled multiple games and products across fantasy sports, sports betting, and prediction markets, all united in one seamless, simple, easy to use, intuitive and fun app.

Underdog isn't for everyone. One of our core values is give a sh*t. The people who win here are the ones who care, push, and perform. If that's you, come join us.

Winning as an Underdog is more fun.

About The Role

As Underdog's first dedicated tax hire, you will own and scale the company's tax function across our diverse and evolving business. You will oversee external tax advisors while taking direct ownership of key filings, calculations, and processes performed in-house. You will manage tax compliance and reporting and partner cross-functionally to incorporate tax requirements into Underdog's products, systems, and operations.

• Own Underdog's overall tax function and serve as the primary internal resource for tax matters across the business
• Manage federal, state, and local income tax compliance, including coordinating with outside preparers, reviewing filings, and ensuring timely and accurate submissions
• Directly oversee and prepare key in-house filings and reporting, including state fantasy sports tax filings, customer tax information reporting, and equity-related tax reporting
• Lead the company's approach to tax information reporting for prediction market customers as applicable requirements and products evolve
• Partner with Product, Engineering, and Data to develop and maintain customer-facing tax capabilities and validate the completeness and accuracy of tax calculations and reporting
• Coordinate the annual tax provision process under ASC 740, serving as the primary liaison with external tax advisors and auditors
• Coordinate the company's R&D tax credit analysis and support the collection and documentation of qualifying activities and expenses
• Research and communicate the tax implications of new products, markets, and business initiatives in partnership with external advisors and internal stakeholders
• Build scalable tax processes, documentation, reconciliations, and internal controls that can grow with the business
• Monitor changes in tax law and information-reporting requirements and proactively identify risks, opportunities, and operational impacts
• Manage relationships with external tax advisors, auditors, and tax authorities

Who You Are

• 5+ years of progressive tax experience, ideally including experience in public accounting and an in-house corporate tax environment
• CPA with a strong technical foundation in federal and state income tax; Big Four experience is strongly preferred
• A versatile tax professional comfortable working across a broad range of tax matters, including income tax, industry-specific taxes, and customer information reporting
• Comfortable overseeing outside advisors while remaining hands-on and accountable for the underlying work
• Experienced in reviewing complex datasets, reconciling tax calculations, and identifying data or process issues
• Able to collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders on tax-related business and product needs
• Skilled at translating complex tax requirements into clear operational and technical requirements for non-tax stakeholders
• Comfortable being the only tax professional in the room, without a large internal team or established playbook to rely on
• Detail-oriented and pragmatic, with sound judgment about risk and what to prioritize in a fast-moving environment
• Able to manage multiple deadlines and competing priorities without dropping the ball
• Excited to build systems and improve processes, not simply administer existing ones

Even Better If You Have

• Experience at a high-growth startup or as part of a lean finance team
• Experience in fantasy sports, gaming, fintech, financial services, prediction markets, or another highly regulated industry
• Significant multistate tax and nexus experience
• Experience with high-volume customer or payee information reporting
• Experience partnering with technical teams to build tax calculations or customer-facing tax products
• Experience with equity compensation tax matters, including ISOs, NSOs, RSUs, Forms 3921, and Section 83(b) elections
• Familiarity with R&D tax credits and the related documentation requirements
• Experience implementing tax software, data workflows, or other tax infrastructure

Our target starting base salary range for this position is between $128,000 and $160,000, plus target equity. The starting base salary will depend on a number of factors including the candidate's skills and experience, among other things.

What We Can Offer You

• Unlimited PTO (we're extremely flexible with the exception of the first few weeks before & into the NFL season)
• 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave
• Home office stipend
• A connected virtual first culture with a highly engaged distributed workforce
• 5% 401k match, FSA, company paid health, dental, vision plan options for employees and dependents

We're a remote-first company and value in-person connection. That said, we expect everyone to gather 2-3 times per year for team and company offsites, trainings, and more.

Underdog is an equal opportunity employer and doesn't discriminate on the basis of creed, race, sexual orientation, gender, age, disability status, or any other defining characteristic.