Tax Technology Specialist (Remote)

Filed; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Filed is seeking a highly adaptable professional for a fully remote role available to candidates anywhere in the United States outside New York. This position emphasizes transparency and a non-traditional job description, promising a challenging but potentially career-changing move.

The role involves long calls and managing onboarding for multiple firms over an 8-week cycle, with a calendar that remains relentless through the February 1 window.

Job description

This role is fully remote, open to candidates based anywhere in the United States outside New York. Based in New York? Apply to the New York posting of this role instead.

A Different Kind Of Job Description

At Filed, we believe in radical transparency. Everything is open: company finances, team salaries, stock options, anonymous team feedback. That extends to how we talk about this job, so what you'll read here looks a little different from other job ads. It starts with why this is a terrible job. Then it explains why it might be the best career move you'll ever make.

Why this is a terrible job

This is an incredibly high-paced, high-tempo environment. We're making a generational bet to change all of our lives, and generational bets are not comfortable.

You will stop signing returns. There are no clients of your own here, no book to build, no partner track. If the thing you want is the next rung on a firm ladder, this job takes it away from you on day one.

You will be on calls most of the day. You carry 5 to 10 firms at a time through onboarding and you own whether they actually succeed, for 8 weeks each, with your name attached. When a firm is floundering in week six, that is yours to fix, and there is nowhere in this job to hide from it.

The calendar is not negotiable. Firms will not change their stack mid-season, so December and January are relentless and everything has to land before the February 1 freeze. Miss the window and you wait a year.

Tax law is objective, but what applies under it and how professionals interpret it is full of judgment. You can give two tax professionals the same task and get two different results where both are right. You will sit across from a partner who disagrees with what the system did, and you will have to explain it in their language, without hiding behind the software. At times it will feel like hitting your head against the