Head of Tax
San Francisco Office (Second St) · San Jose Office (First St) · Bellevue · Full-time · Hybrid · Posted Oct 15, 2026
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time
- Workplace
- Hybrid
- Location
- San Francisco Office (Second St) · San Jose Office (First St) · Bellevue
About Lambda
- - Founded in 2012, with 500+ employees, and growing fast
- - Our investors notably include TWG Global, US Innovative Technology Fund (USIT), Andra Capital, SGW, Andrej Karpathy, ARK Invest, Fincadia Advisors, G Squared, In-Q-Tel (IQT), KHK & Partners, NVIDIA, Pegatron, Supermicro, Wistron, Wiwynn, Gradient Ventures, Mercato Partners, SVB, 1517, and Crescent Cove
- - We have research papers accepted at top machine learning and graphics conferences, including NeurIPS, ICCV, SIGGRAPH, and TOG
- - Our values are publicly available: https://lambda.ai/careers
- - We offer generous cash & equity compensation
- - Health, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents
About the role
- Lambda is seeking a Head of Tax to own the company's global tax strategy, risk profile, operating model, and multi-year roadmap.
- The role requires hands-on leadership, executive partnership, and active management of tax reporting compliance, controversy, transactions infrastructure, and international expansion.
Responsibilities
- Own Lambda's global tax strategy, risk profile, operating model and multi year roadmap, aligned with the company's growth, capital structure and infrastructure deployment plans.
- Advise the Chief Financial Officer, Chief Accounting Officer and other executives on material tax exposures, alternatives and recommended actions in concise business terms.
- Establish practical governance for when Tax must be involved in contracts, financings, entity formation, site selection, acquisitions, compensation decisions and other significant events.
- Own ASC 740, including quarterly and annual provision processes, forecasts, effective tax rate analysis, deferred tax accounting, valuation allowances, uncertain tax positions, disclosures and management review controls.
- Direct outsourced federal, state and international income tax compliance and ensure that filing positions, provision conclusions and legal entity data remain consistent.
- Lead tax audits and controversy, including the current IRS examination, information document requests, position development, settlement authority and coordination with Legal and advisers.
- Oversee ownership change analyses under IRC Section 382 for significant equity financings and ensure that any resulting limitations are incorporated into tax attributes, compliance and financial reporting.
- Lead tax analysis for project financings, special purpose entities, debt and equity structures, intercompany arrangements, major customer and vendor contracts and data center development projects.
- Define tax requirements for finance transformation initiatives, including Coupa, fixed asset systems, ERP reporting, billing, tax engines and legal entity reporting.
- Lead, coach and develop a lean team while clarifying roles across provision and income tax, indirect tax, international tax and operations.
Requirements
- Approximately 12 or more years of progressively responsible corporate tax experience, including meaningful in house leadership experience in a complex, rapidly changing business.
- Deep command of ASC 740 and demonstrated ability to own a provision process, assess uncertain positions and communicate judgments to senior finance leadership and auditors.
- Strong federal corporate tax and international tax foundations with practical experience across transactions, tax attributes, controversy and multi state matters.
- Experience directing external advisers and outsourced compliance while maintaining internal control, documentation and decision ownership.
- Ability to move comfortably between strategy and execution, including reviewing detailed work, drafting or shaping technical positions and driving cross functional projects to completion.
- Executive presence without unnecessary formality, with the ability to explain complex issues clearly, make a recommendation, and identify what requires escalation.
- Track record of building teams, prioritizing limited resources and creating durable processes in an environment where facts and timelines change quickly.
- Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, taxation or a related field.
Preferred qualifications
- Technology, cloud infrastructure, data centers, energy intensive operations, equipment leasing or another capital intensive and internationally expanding business.
- International structuring, transfer pricing, withholding, VAT or GST, customs and foreign legal entity implementation.
- Project finance, special purpose entities, debt structures and large fixed asset investments.
- State and local tax incentives, property tax and sales and use tax issues associated with construction and equipment deployment.
- Pre IPO readiness, public company controls or SEC reporting environments.
- Tax technology, ERP reporting, procure to pay, billing or fixed asset system implementation.
Benefits
- Generous cash & equity compensation
- Health, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents
- Wellness and commuter stipends for select roles
- 401k Plan with 2% company match (USA employees)
- Flexible paid time off plan
Workplace
- Lambda's designated work from home day is currently Tuesday.
Skills
- ASC 740
- Coupa
- ERP Reporting
- Tax Engines
