senior manager, Indirect Tax Strategy & Advisory

Starbucks • Seattle, WA

3d • Onsite

About The Position

As a senior manager on the Indirect Tax team, you’ll lead sales and use tax strategy and advisory for new products, evolving business models, and enterprise-wide initiatives. You’ll serve as a strategic advisor to teams across the business, helping ensure sales and use tax requirements, risks, and opportunities are considered early and thoughtfully. This role is about shaping decisions, translating complex sales and use tax issues into clear, practical guidance, and owning the work from strategy through execution.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in sales and use tax strategy, advisory, research, and planning
• Experience in a corporate tax department, public accounting firm, or law firm
• Strong knowledge of multistate sales and use tax, including taxability, sourcing, and related compliance considerations
• Experience with Washington state and local B&O tax
• Experience advising the business on complex initiatives, product launches, new service offerings, or strategic planning projects
• Ability to interpret new sales and use tax legislation, regulations, and administrative guidance and determine business impacts
• Proven ability to work cross-functionally and influence stakeholders without direct authority
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to translate sales and use tax concepts for non-tax audiences
• A high level of ownership and a track record of delivering results

Nice To Haves

• Degree in Accounting, Law, or Business preferred

Responsibilities

• Lead sales and use tax strategy for new products and initiatives, partnering with Tax Operations, Product, Finance, Legal, Accounting, and Technology teams to identify taxability, sourcing, and compliance considerations; advise on risks and opportunities; and help shape outcomes early in the process.
• Act as the lead sales and use tax researcher – Analyze complex state and local tax issues, including product and service taxability, sourcing, and emerging business models; develop well-supported positions; and provide clear, research-based guidance.
• Provide strategic guidance on changing sales and use tax laws and policy – Stay on top of new and evolving legislation, regulations, and administrative guidance; assess the impact to the business; and translate changes into clear, actionable recommendations for stakeholders and leadership.
• Drive work end-to-end with strong ownership – Take projects from early scoping through execution, ensuring follow-through, clear documentation, and sustainable processes that support sales and use tax positions in close collaboration with the Tax Operations team.
• Communicate complex sales and use tax concepts clearly – Translate technical requirements into practical insights and recommendations that help non-tax partners make informed business decisions.

Benefits

• medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance, and other voluntary insurance benefits
• short-term and long-term disability
• paid parental leave
• family expansion reimbursement
• paid vacation from date of hire
• sick time (accrued at 1 hour for every 25 hours worked)
• eight paid holidays
• two personal days per year
• 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
• discounted company stock program (S.I.P.)
• Starbucks equity program (Bean Stock)
• incentivized emergency savings
• financial well-being tools
• 100%25 upfront tuition coverage for a first-time bachelor’s degree through Arizona State University’s online program via the Starbucks College Achievement Plan
• student loan management resources
• access to other educational opportunities
• backup care
• DACA reimbursement

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior