What are the responsibilities and job description for the U.S. Indirect Tax Manager position at Palantir Technologies?
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Palantir builds the world’s leading software for data-driven decisions and operations. By bringing the right data to the people who need it, our platforms empower our partners to develop lifesaving drugs, forecast supply chain disruptions, locate missing children, and more.
The Role
The Finance Team supports and empowers Palantirians through day-to-day operations and creative problem-solving. The US Indirect Tax Manager is responsible for supporting the company’s US indirect tax function across a dynamic multi-state business environment. This role requires a strong analytical mindset and technical background with the ability to navigate complex and evolving tax matters with a practical business-oriented approach. The ideal candidate is detail oriented, solutions driven and comfortable working cross functionally to support accurate compliance, effective risk management and scalable tax processes.\n- Serve as a key indirect tax advisor to internal business partners, providing clear, well-reasoned guidance on complex sales and use tax matters across multiple jurisdictions.
- Analyze and interpret state and local tax laws, regulations, and administrative guidance to form defensible positions in complex areas, including SaaS, digital products, and evolving tax frameworks.
- Exercise sound judgment in gray areas of tax law by evaluating available guidance and evidence to support consistent and audit-ready positions.
- Review externally prepared sales and use tax returns in detail, focusing on numerical accuracy and the reasonableness of the overall position.
- Prepare and maintain sales tax account reconciliations to ensure accurate balance sheet reporting.
- Manage US indirect tax compliance activities including business license tax, gross receipts tax, property tax and related state and local indirect tax filings.
- Identify systemic issues, risk areas, and control gaps by connecting data across reports, systems, and filings.
- Lead and manage state and local sales and use tax audits from end-to-end, including direct interaction with auditors, negotiation of findings, and resolution of disputes.
- Develop and defend audit positions by clearly articulating technical tax rationale and supporting documentation.
- Extend and optimize existing OneSource tax engine configuration to support accurate use tax calculation and compliance workflows.
- Partner cross-functionally with Accounting, AP, and Procurement, serving as an internal resource for indirect tax questions across business processes.
- Experience supporting SaaS business models.
- A proactive, solutions-oriented mindset with the ability to work independently.
- Experience managing audits and communicating effectively with taxing authorities and internal stakeholders.
- Ability to identify process improvement opportunities and strengthen controls across systems and workflows.
- CPA preferred.
- Strong technical foundation in US indirect tax within complex multi-state environments.
- Ability to apply sound judgement and think critically in ambiguous or evolving tax situations.
- Hands-on experience with ONESOURCE and NetSuite strongly preferred.
- Experience reviewing sales and use tax returns in detail, including evaluation of accuracy and reasonableness of position taken.
- Strong analytical skills with attention to detail and the ability to identify issues beyond transactional accuracy.
- Strong organizational, interpersonal, accounting and time management skills with the ability to drive project to completion independently.
- Minimum of 5 years of progressive experience in indirect tax.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills.
Salary
The salary range for this position is estimated to be $85,000 - $140,000/year. Total compensation for this position may also include Restricted Stock units, sign-on bonus and other potential future incentives. Further note that total compensation for this position will be determined by each individual’s relevant qualifications, work experience, skills, and other factors. This estimate excludes the value of any potential sign-on bonus; the value of any benefits offered; and the potential future value of any long-term incentives.
Our benefits aim to promote health and wellbeing across all areas of Palantirians’ lives. We work to continuously improve our offerings and listen to our community as we design and update them. The list below details our available benefits and some of the perks that can be enjoyed as an employee of Palantir Technologies.
Benefits
• Employees (and their eligible dependents) can enroll in medical, dental, and vision insurance as well as voluntary life insurance
• Employees are automatically covered by Palantir’s basic life, AD&D and disability insurance
• Commuter benefits
• Take what you need paid time off, not accrual based
• 2 weeks paid time off built into the end of each year (subject to team and business needs)
• 10 paid holidays throughout the calendar year
• Supportive leave of absence program including time off for military service and medical events
• Paid leave for new parents and subsidized back-up care for all parents
• Fertility and family building benefits including but not limited to adoption, surrogacy, and preservation
• Stipend to help with expenses that come with a new child
• Employees can enroll in Palantir’s 401k plan
Life at Palantir
We want every Palantirian to achieve their best outcomes, that’s why we celebrate individuals’ strengths, skills, and interests, from your first interview to your longterm growth, rather than rely on traditional career ladders. Paying attention to the needs of our community enables us to optimize our opportunities to grow and helps ensure many pathways to success at Palantir. Promoting health and well-being across all areas of Palantirians’ lives is just one of the ways we’re investing in our community. Learn more at Life at Palantir and note that our offerings may vary by region.
In keeping consistent with Palantir’s values and culture, we believe employees are “better together” and in-person work affords the opportunity for more creative outcomes. Therefore, we encourage employees to work from our offices to foster connectivity and innovation. Many teams do offer hybrid options (WFH a day or two a week), allowing our employees to strike the right trade-off for their personal productivity. Based on business need, there are a few roles that allow for “Remote” work on an exceptional basis. If you are applying for one of these roles, you must work from the state in which you are employed. If the posting is specified as Onsite, you are required to work from an office.
If you want to empower the world's most important institutions, you belong here. Palantir values excellence regardless of background. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer for all, including but not limited to Veterans and those with disabilities. Palantir is committed to making the application and hiring process accessible to everyone and will provide a reasonable accommodation for those living with a disability. If you need an accommodation for the application or hiring process, please reach out and let us know how we can help.
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Salary : $85,000 - $140,000