Associate Manager, Indirect Tax Audit Analytics

DoorDash USA

13d•$102,700 - $151,000•Remote

About The Position

DoorDash is seeking a hands-on Associate Manager, Indirect Tax Audit Analytics to join its Tax Controversy team. This role is crucial for producing excellent controversy outcomes, providing timely and accurate information on material risks, and improving the tax team with actionable feedback from audits. The position will report to the controversy lead/tax counsel and collaborate with partners across Tax, Accounting, and Tax Tech. The role is remote, based within the US, with limited travel for team events or offsites. The Associate Manager will be the data and analytics expert for the Tax Controversy team, responsible for answering audit questions with data, transforming complex transactional datasets into clear and persuasive answers, and becoming fluent in sales and use tax (and gross receipts tax) issues central to audits. This role will also serve as the primary interface with the Tax Tech team, leading the application of modern AI tooling to controversy work, including ingesting and reconciling auditor workpapers, summarizing transaction populations, drafting responses, and identifying data patterns. While not requiring an engineering background, the ideal candidate will be a tax professional curious about these tools and ready to set the standard for their use within the team.

Requirements

4+ years of experience with state and local tax compliance, audits, or controversy, gained inside a tax function — a Big 4 or consulting firm indirect tax practice, a state revenue agency, or an in-house corporate tax team with a meaningful indirect tax operation.
A passion for finding answers in data. You don't just execute the steps you're given — you take a problem, get into the data, and come back with conclusions, flagging what looks wrong without being asked.
Thorough understanding of sales and use taxes, including marketplace facilitator laws.
Fluency with Microsoft Excel and competence with Alteryx.
Comfort working with a tax technology or data engineering team.
Enthusiastic user of modern AI tools (e.g., Claude) in a professional context, with concrete examples of how these tools have improved work.
Clear and concise communication skills.
Ability to manage multiple workstreams without losing focus.
Strong moral compass and compassion for others.
A Bachelor's degree or higher.

Nice To Haves

Experience with U.S. gross receipts taxes (e.g., Washington B&O, San Francisco GRT, Ohio CAT, Oregon CAT).
Experience in a high-growth technology, marketplace, or e-commerce company.
Direct experience working with state and local tax auditors.

Responsibilities

Be the team's go-to person for getting deep into audit data and producing the analyses that answer our hardest external and internal questions.
Build expertise on unsettled legal and factual issues in sales and use tax.
Lead our team's adoption of AI tooling — shaping how a modern in-house tax controversy function works.
Partner closely with our Tax Tech team and grow into the controversy team's expert on how DoorDash's data flows.
Roll up your sleeves on whatever the team needs — from a one-off auditor request to a multi-month data project.