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We help companies understand their tax exposure, calculate and collect the right amount, automate registrations and filings, and stay compliant as they grow across jurisdictions.\nIndirect tax is high-stakes, fragmented, and unforgiving. Rules change constantly, vary by product and location, and create real financial risk when companies get them wrong.\nWe hire people with high ownership, strong judgment, and low ego. Everyone at Taxwire is expected to understand the customer, solve messy problems end to end, and build systems that scale. We move quickly because our customers depend on us to get it right.\nWe’ve raised approximately $25 million, serve hundreds of SMB and mid-market companies, and continue to win customers away from legacy providers. We’re proud to have had zero churn to date.\nIf you want to solve a massive, permanent problem alongside experienced tax experts and product builders, Taxwire is the place to do it.\nAbout the role\nWe’re looking for a skilled, experienced, and motivated Founding Product Designer to join our team. This role is focused on product design and UX, with opportunities to shape both product and brand from the ground up. Experience owning product work is a plus.\nYou’ll work closely with our founders, engineers, and tax SMEs to design intuitive, fast, and powerful user experiences. Our product spans self-serve onboarding, data visualization, integrations, and interfaces that help customers configure and automate compliance across hundreds of jurisdictions. You’ll play a central role in shaping the core UX of our platform and making complexity feel simple and trustworthy.\nThis is a great role for someone who craves impact and ownership, and loves turning gnarly, abstract workflows into clear, polished software.\nWhat you’ll do\nLead the end-to-end design of Taxwire’s core product surfaces - from user onboarding and dashboards to workflow tools and internal ops interfaces.\n\nTranslate complex compliance logic and tax rules into intuitive interfaces that users can trust and understand.\n\nPartner with engineers to rapidly prototype and ship polished features.\n\nDevelop a product design system that’s scalable, accessible, and consistent across use cases.\n\nCollaborate with tax specialists to understand the real-world edge cases and regulatory nuance our product must support.\n\nHelp evolve and define the company’s visual identity and voice across product, marketing, and internal tools.\n\nCreate UX that balances speed, clarity, and trust - especially for workflows involving financial and regulatory risk.\n\nContribute to product strategy, roadmap planning, and customer research alongside the founders.\n\nWhat you need\n5-10 years of professional product design experience, with a strong portfolio of shipped work (especially B2B, fintech, or data-heavy tools).\nExperience designing for complex workflows, backend systems, or enterprise use cases.\nStrong systems thinking - you’re comfortable designing scalable, reusable components and patterns.\nExcellent interaction design and visual design skills. You know what great UX looks and feels like.\nAbility to prototype quickly and work closely with engineers to get things built right.\nClear, thoughtful communicator - especially in writing. We’re a writing-first company.\nA deep sense of ownership. You’re proactive, biased toward action, and don’t need to be told what to do.\nBonus: experience designing for regulated or trust-critical domains (e.g. finance, healthcare, payroll, tax).\nBonus: comfort doing light brand design (e.g. decks, website, marketing assets) in the early days.\nNice to have\nExperience designing for regulated or trust-critical domains such as finance, healthcare, payroll, or tax\n\nComfort doing light brand design-including decks, website, and marketing assets-in the early days\n\nWhy work at Taxwire\nAs our first designer, you’ll set the ground work for the role of both design and product in this company. You’ll also work extremely closely with our founders and have the chance to have a major voice in the direction of the product and business. We expect the person that takes this role to grow into a leader in the company.\n\nWe’re solving a complex problem that affects companies globally, with a clear path to becoming a large, enduring business. We literally can’t build fast enough to onboard the volume or magnitude of customer inbound we have.\n\nYou’ll be earning early-stage equity in a business that’s been significantly de-risked. We’re in execution mode, not will people give a fuck mode. Our market is large with material tailwinds. And we’ve proven we can build great software, sell customers, win against competitors, and recruit talented, senior people from our industry.\n\nWe’re an anti-hype-cycle company. Customers will have to solve these problems regardless of what changes with technology or investor sentiment.\n\nOur team is leveraging years of experience building several of the most successful products in our space from 0 to 1 and beyond.\n\nWe’re creating trustworthy products that leverage modern technology, in that order. No half-measures. No shortcuts where it matters. We do right by our customers or go home.\n\nIf Taxwire succeeds, our goal is to help our team achieve life-changing financial and career outcomes. We’ll work closely with you to make sure you understand and can reap the benefits of your equity (including things like taxes).\n\nWe care deeply about serving our people, whether those people are our customers or our team.\n\nWe’re well funded by respected institutional VCs and angels.\n\nYou’ll work with some of the most talented engineers and tax experts in this domain.\n\nCompetitive salary and company-covered benefits package.\n\nWhy you shouldn’t work at Taxwire\nYou love lots of structure and want to be closely managed.\n\nYou want to be handed a playbook instead of building one.\n\nYou want to ship pretty screens, not solve hairy real-world workflows.\n\nDon’t get excited about serving our customers or find this problem space boring.\n\nYou hate the idea of talking to a customer.\n\nYou lack conviction or taste.\n\nYou’ve never written a PRD and would be against doing so.\n\nShipping lots of high-quality design and product, fast… scares you.\n\nConfronting and navigating uncertainty intimidates you.\n\nBenefits\nCompany-covered benefits\n\nMeaningful equity","description_format":"text","description_chars":6426,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":5,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Equity"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Commerce"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-26T09:22:40Z"}],"liveness":{"score":4,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.142,"p_room":0.28,"age_days":88,"expected_fill_days":7,"reasons":["conf:4","win:tail","crowd:"],"computed_at":"2026-09-27T05:45:00Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":200000,"is_top_pay":true},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/taxwire-founding-designer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/taxwire-founding-designer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-09-28T02:45:12Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":1519,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":3481,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-09-29T00:00:00Z"}}}