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We handle sales tax and VAT from end to end for hundreds of mid-market companies and dozens of accounting / tax firms. We’ve raised ~$25M in venture capital from firms like Headline, XYZ, Vinyl, and dozens of CFOs, founders, and tax practitioners.\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.\nDeath and taxes are forever. If you want to operate in one of the largest markets in the world and sovle a massive, enduring problem with a team of people playing to win, Taxwire is the place to do it.\nAbout the role\nWe're hiring our first recruiter to own how Taxwire finds, closes, and lands exceptional people → sourcing, candidate experience, process, and the close. The mandate of this role is to drive talent pipeline, giving our CEO and every hiring manager the leverage to build a talent-dense team as the business scales.\nYou'll report directly to our CEO and work across every part of the business, hiring for engineering, GTM, tax, and operations. This isn't a narrowly scoped role. 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Don't take it if you're not deeply and intrinsically motivated to win and grow.\nWhat you'll do\nOwn full-cycle recruiting across engineering, GTM, engineering, deployments, and account management: source, screen, close.\n\nRun persistent, well-written outbound to senior people who aren't looking and are hard to reach.\n\nPartner with Andrew (CEO) and hiring managers to scope each role before it opens: what the person does, what great looks like, and how we'll measure it.\n\nDesign the interview loop and scorecard for each role, and get interviewers calibrated before they start.\n\nOwn the candidate experience from first message to signed offer. Fast replies, clear next steps, no black holes.\n\nDrive offers to close. Manage comp conversations, competing offers, and the human side of a hard yes.\n\nStand up the systems: ATS hygiene, structured interviews, sourcing playbooks, and a funnel you keep honest.\n\nKeep the bar high when the pressure to fill fast is real, and make sure everyone we pass on still respects Taxwire.\n\nWhat you need\nYou’re a hustler. You get after it. You know great talent doesn’t just come to you.\n\nYou’re a closer. You know the job is not done until someone has signed and started at Taxwire.\n\nYou have taste in people. You can tell the difference between someone who interviews well and someone who'll do the work, and you trust that read enough to defend it.\n\nYou can talk to anyone we hire. Engineers, sellers, tax experts, etc. are different animals. You can hold a credible conversation with all three.\n\nYou care about hires that stick. You don't confuse motion with progress.\n\nYou're comfortable with ambiguity. 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