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Director, Indirect Tax

🏢 Patreon · 📍 New York · ⏰ FullTime
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Position Summary & Responsibilities

Patreon is a media and community platform where over 300,000 creators give their biggest fans access to exclusive work and experiences. We offer creators a variety of ways to engage with their fans and build a lasting business including: paid memberships, free memberships, community chats, live video, and selling to fans directly with one-time purchases.

Ultimately our goal is simple: fund the creative class. And we're leaders in that space, with:

  • $10 billion+ generated by creators since Patreon's inception

  • 100 million+ free memberships for fans who may not be ready to pay just yet, and

  • 25 million+ paid memberships on Patreon today.

We're continuing to invest heavily in building the best creator platform with the best team in the creator economy and are looking for a Director, Indirect Tax to support our mission.

About the Team

The Finance team at Patreon ensures the business runs efficiently, compliantly, and with integrity as we continue to scale globally. Our Tax team owns Patreon's global tax obligations end to end, partnering closely with Product, Engineering, and the rest of Finance to build scalable processes that keep pace with a fast-growing, international creator platform.

About the Role

The Director, Indirect Tax is responsible for all indirect taxes across all aspects of the business. Think marketplace sales taxes, ESS, VAT, GST, JCT, etc. This role will be very hands-on and play an integral part in all aspects of tax operations, from collections through remittance. As a Director, you will work closely with Product and Engineering teams as well as the Finance team, to scope, design, and enhance the way our product handles indirect taxes.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Join a small but mighty tax team guiding a fast-growing, world-class Creator-oriented company.

  • Be our expert on all things indirect tax.

  • Lead the preparation o

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Key Role Competencies & Evaluation Highlights

Key Role Focus:

Assessing deep empathy for creators, scale-up architectural or operational scalability, and commitment to creator economy monetization.

📋 Preparation Priorities (Key Areas to Clarify):
  • 1. Treating creators as mere transactions rather than creative small business owners
  • 2. Proposing solutions that add friction to the creator-to-fan checkout flow
  • 3. Inability to discuss trade-offs between creator autonomy and platform standardization
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