Tax Lead - Full Service (Self-Advised)

AngelList, LLC; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 171,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity package

Base salary and benefits

Total Rewards package

Job summary

AngelList seeks a Tax Lead – Full Service (Self-Advised) to own tax delivery for a growing book of self-advised venture funds. You will manage GP relationships, review complex partnership returns, and guide Associates and Senior Associates, while collaborating with Legal, Engineering, and Fund Accounting to scale workflows.

You will drive efficiency by integrating AI and automation to replace manual follow-up, ensuring timely K-1 releases and accurate reporting.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of partnership tax experience in public accounting, fund administration, or industry.
• Experience reviewing Forms 1065 and Schedules K-1 and interpreting partnership agreements.
• Proven ability to drive client or GP relationships to deadlines.
• Knowledge of multi-state filings and foreign partner reporting (Forms 1042 and 8804/8805).

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end tax delivery for self-advised funds from information collection to K-1 release.
• Review partnership returns and Schedules K-1, including allocations and state/foreign reporting.
• Run GP outreach for return signers and inputs with deadlines and escalations.
• Build and maintain the self-advised playbook and hand recurring work to Tax Operations.
• Coach Associates through review notes and workflow management.
• Identify where AI/automation can replace manual follow-up with engineering support.

Skills

Partnership tax

Client relations

Deadline driven

Written communication

AI mindset

Education

CPA/EA/attorney licensed

Tools

Tax software

Job description

About Belltower Fund Group

Belltower, AngelList’s funds services division, is empowering world-changing fund investments.

Belltower was formed in 2019 as AngelList’s native fund administrator. Belltower provides fund administration services to the venture space. Our coverage spans syndicates, venture funds, and first-of-their-kind rolling funds. Our full-service fund management offering streamlines the complexity of running a fund by integrating financial reporting, tax, compliance, portfolio management, and other services that managers typically have to cobble together from multiple vendors. Our services, combined with AngelList’s software, enable us to launch and scale a fund efficiently, allowing fund managers to focus on what they do best: investing. Since 2019, Belltower has supported 27k+ funds representing over $25B in assets under administration, leveraging AngelList’s fund admin software to power the service layer for funds launched on the AngelList platform.

About The Role

We are seeking a Tax Lead – Full Service (Self-Advised) to join our growing tax team. This role is ideal for someone with partnership tax review experience who enjoys owning client relationships and driving work to a deadline. The Tax Lead (Self-Advised) will own tax delivery for Belltower's self-advised venture funds, where the fund's GP manages and signs for the fund and Belltower provides the tax service layer. You will own the relationship between Tax and these GPs: what we need from them, when we need it, and how their returns and K-1s get reviewed and released. You'll proactively manage missing information, client dependencies, and escalations to keep deliverables on track. Working closely with our Customer Relations Team, Legal, Engineering, and Fund Accounting, you'll make this process repeatable as the population grows. This is a senior individual contributor role. You will review complex partnership returns, coach Associates and Senior Associates, and use technology to replace manual follow-up with scalable workflows.

You Will

• Own end-to-end tax delivery for a growing book of self-advised funds, from information collection through GP review and K-1 release
• Review partnership returns and Schedules K-1, including allocations, state filings, and foreign reporting
• Run GP outreach for return signers, partnership representatives, FBAR, and other filing inputs, with clear deadlines and escalation
• Build and maintain the self-advised playbook, and hand recurring operational work to Tax Operations
• Coach Associates and Senior Associates through review notes, training, and workflow management
• Find where AI and automation can replace manual follow-up, and work with Engineering to ship it

You Have

• 5+ years of partnership tax experience in public accounting, fund administration, or industry, ideally with venture capital or private equity funds
• Experience reviewing Forms 1065 and Schedules K-1 and interpreting partnership agreements
• A record of managing client or GP relationships where you had to drive outside parties to a deadline
• Working knowledge of multi-state filings and foreign partner reporting (Forms 1042 and 8804/8805)
• Clear written communication, especially when the message is a firm askAn instinct to question existing processes and use AI and automation to build better ones
• CPA, EA, or attorney admitted in a U.S. jurisdiction, or progress toward one

Working Here

We value complementary strengths and operators who learn by doing. We operate out of hubs in New York City and San Francisco. For most roles on those teams, we work from the office at least two days per week (Tuesdays and either Wednesday or Thursday).

Compensation

The compensation for this role consists of a competitive base salary, benefits, and equity package. The base salary for this role starts at $155,000+ annually but will vary based on a number of factors including a candidate’s professional background, experience, level, and location. Additional details about our Total Rewards package will be provided during the recruitment process.

Benefits

We support your life both in and outside of work.

What Guides Us

At AngelList, we are united in our purpose to accelerate innovation and build the future of private markets. Our beliefs and values shape what we work on and how we create impact. If the below resonate, we'd love to have you with us.

Belltower Funds, a division of AngelList, is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.