International Indirect Tax, VAT/GST

About the Position

International Indirect Tax, VAT/GST

Dublin, IE

About Anthropic

Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.

About the Role

Anthropic is seeking an experienced VAT/GST professional to join our growing Tax team in our Dublin office. In this role, you'll be responsible for managing and advising on all indirect tax matters outside the United States, spanning Europe, UK, APAC, and other international markets. You'll work closely with our Global Indirect Tax team, compliance Lead and the broader tax team to develop and execute our international VAT/GST strategy as we scale our AI products globally.

This is an exciting opportunity to join an AI safety company at the forefront of the industry and help build out our international indirect tax function from the ground up. You'll partner cross-functionally with Finance, Accounting, Legal, Product, and Go-to-Market teams to embed tax considerations into our global operations.

Responsibilities

Advisory & Planning

• Provide VAT/GST advisory support on new product launches, pricing models, customer contracts, and go-to-market strategies across international markets
• Advise on the indirect tax implications of corporate restructuring, entity establishment, and intercompany arrangements
• Develop and maintain indirect tax positions and documentation for digital services across multiple jurisdictions
• Support tax-efficient structuring for infrastructure procurement and reseller arrangements
• Monitor and assess the impact of regulatory changes, including EU VAT in the Digital Age, OECD initiatives, and local digital services tax developments

Compliance Support & Collaboration

• Work alongside the Global Indirect Tax Compliance Lead to support VAT/GST registration, filing, and compliance across 30+ jurisdictions
• Assist with customer classification (B2B vs B2C), and place of supply determinations
• Support audit defence and respond to queries from international tax authorities
• Collaborate with external advisors across jurisdictions to ensure accurate and timely compliance

Systems & Process

• Partner with Finance Systems to ensure proper tax configuration within ERP, billing platforms, and tax engines for international transactions
• Support testing and implementation of system changes affecting international indirect tax

Key Jurisdictions

• EU (with particular focus on Ireland as primary billing entity), UK, Switzerland
• Australia, Japan, Singapore, and broader APAC
• Canada, Latin America and emerging markets as Anthropic expands

Requirements

• Have 8+ years of VAT/GST experience, with deep expertise in European and international indirect tax
• Possess strong technical knowledge of VAT rules for digital services, including place of supply, B2B/B2C distinctions, and reverse charge mechanisms
• Have experience in technology or SaaS companies, ideally with consumption-based, API, or subscription business models
• Are skilled at translating complex business models into clear tax positions and advice
• Can communicate complex tax concepts clearly to non-tax stakeholders across all levels
• Thrive in fast-paced environments and are comfortable building processes where none exist
• Ability to partner well with direct tax, transfer pricing and accounting personnel
• Are proactive, self-starting, and able to work independently while collaborating effectively with a global team
• Have excellent project management skills and attention to detail

Nice to Have

• CTA, ATT, ACA, or equivalent professional tax qualification
• Experience with Big 4 or national accounting firm indirect tax practices
• Hands-on experience with tax technology solutions (Vertex, Avalara, Anrok, or similar)
• Experience with ERP and billing systems (Workday, NetSuite, Stripe)
• Experience managing relationships with tax authorities and handling audits
• Familiarity with customs duties, digital services taxes

We Offer

• Annual Salary: €220,000 EUR
• Education: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience
• Experience: Minimum years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position
• Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices.
• Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.

About the Company

Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues.

How We're Different

We believe that the highest-impact AI research will be big science. At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive team on just a few large-scale research efforts. And we value impact - advancing our long-term goals of steerable, trustworthy AI - rather than work on smaller and more specific puzzles. We view AI research as an empirical science, which has as much in common with physics and biology as with traditional efforts in computer science. We're an extremely collaborative group, and we host frequent research discussions to ensure that we are pursuing the highest-impact work at any given time. As such, we greatly value communication skills.

The easiest way to understand our research directions is to read our recent research. This research continues many of the directions our team worked on prior to Anthropic, including: GPT-3, Circuit-Based Interpretability, Multimodal Neurons, Scaling Laws, AI & Compute, Concrete Problems in AI Safety, and Learning from Human Preferences.

Come Work with Us!

Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues. Guidance on Candidates' AI Usage: Learn about our policy for using AI in our application process.