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tl;dr → We’re looking for a founding product designer to simplify complexity for both our customers and our team. You’ll serve as the voice of the user, craft clear and trustworthy UX, and be a force multiplier for execution across the company. Ideal for someone who wants to join early, move fast, and own both design and product end-to-end.
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Taxwire is solving a forever problem. Anthropic might eat half the SaaS companies. AI could automate jobs. They might even cure death. But taxes are forever.
We’re tackling one of the largest markets in the world. → Indirect taxes (sales tax, VAT, etc.) are one of the most complex and least sexy forms of taxes in the world. Today, businesses globally remit $600B+ in sales tax and ~$5 trillion in VAT every year. The average $50-100M business will manage sales tax filings across 40+ US states and 20-30 countries. The problem space is deeply complex and ripe for automation and better products.
Our customers trust us to fully manage their tax compliance. → Most finance, accounting, and tax teams are not experts in sales tax. They also have 12 other responsibilities to manage, that don’t include thinking about indirect tax compliance. Taxwire exists to be their trusted partner in managing their compliance from end to end.
What we’re building to serve our customers. → To achieve this, we’re rebuilding a global tax platform from the ground up: the data layer, the tax calculation engine, the filing infrastructure, tax remittance, customer dashboards, accounting + billing workflows, and AI-powered the services that surround it.
Our team has deep industry expertise + startup experience → Our engineering, product, tax team’s built the tax products at Stripe, TaxJar, and Avalara prior. Others started VC-backed companies prior to joining. Others helped scale other startups in the Office of the CFO. Everyone’s here to win and build something that endures.
Where we’re at today → Recently raised our Series A, have hundreds of customers across SMB and mid-market, and are growing fast. 50%+ of our customers are ripping out legacy incumbents to switch to us. We serve customers in tech, but also in non-tech industries like construction and manufacturing.
Our customers → We serve finance, accounting, and tax teams. Some of our customers you’d know like Omni, Pulley, Modal, Spellbook, and Middesk. Others you wouldn’t because they’re far outside Silicon Valley or tech (e.g. construction and manufacturing). To date, we’re very proud to have had 0 churn.
Our investors → We’ve raised ~$25M from Headline, XYZ Ventures, Vinyl, Recall Capital, J Ventures, Nomo Ventures, Siqi Chen, Michael Bock, Justin Mares, Mike Rosengarten (OpenGov co-founder), Erik Torenberg, and dozens of other operators, CFOs, and accountants.
We’re looking for a skilled, experienced, and motivated Founding Product Designer to join our team. This role is focused on product design and UX, with opportunities to shape both product and brand from the ground up. Experience owning product work is a plus.
You’ll work closely with our founders, engineers, and tax SMEs to design intuitive, fast, and powerful user experiences. Our product spans self-serve onboarding, data visualization, integrations, and interfaces that help customers configure and automate compliance across hundreds of jurisdictions. You’ll play a central role in shaping the core UX of our platform and making complexity feel simple and trustworthy.
This is a great role for someone who craves impact and ownership, and loves turning gnarly, abstract workflows into clear, polished software.