SALT Sales & Use Tax Senior Manager

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a SALT Sales & Use Tax Senior Manager based in United States.

This is a senior leadership opportunity within a growing State and Local Tax practice, focused on complex multistate sales and use tax matters. You will serve as a trusted advisor to sophisticated clients, providing practical guidance on technical issues, tax planning, audits, and business restructuring. The role combines deep technical expertise with practice leadership, business development, and people development. You will collaborate across service lines to identify integrated solutions and strengthen long-term client relationships. You will also help modernize service delivery through technology, AI, automation, and process improvement. This fully remote opportunity is suited to an experienced tax professional who thrives in a collaborative, entrepreneurial, and growth-oriented environment.

Accountabilities

Lead complex SALT engagements: Manage multistate sales and use tax engagements from planning through delivery, ensuring accurate, timely, high-quality work while providing strategic oversight and managing project economics and profitability.

Advise clients on technical matters: Serve as a senior technical resource on sales and use tax issues, conduct complex research, develop tax strategies, and provide practical recommendations to minimize clients' state and local tax exposure.

Manage audits and controversies: Lead state and local tax audits, advocate for client positions with government authorities, manage communications and expectations, and maintain productive relationships with tax officials.

Drive practice development: Lead SALT initiatives, improve processes and service offerings, and identify opportunities to expand capabilities and enhance the client experience.

Strengthen client relationships: Develop a deep understanding of client businesses and industries, collaborate across service lines to identify integrated solutions, and contribute to expanding existing relationships and generating new opportunities.

Support business growth: Work with senior leadership to identify business development opportunities, develop referral networks, participate in industry and community activities, and contribute to the long-term growth strategy of the practice.

Develop talent: Mentor and coach managers, seniors, and staff, provide meaningful feedback and delegation, and create opportunities for professionals to build technical expertise and leadership capabilities.

Promote innovation: Evaluate emerging technologies, AI tools, automation, and workflow improvements that can increase quality, efficiency, scalability, and consistency across the practice.

Represent the practice externally: Contribute to professional organizations, publications, conferences, and speaking engagements on relevant technical and industry topics.

Maintain technical excellence: Monitor nationwide SALT developments and communicate relevant changes internally while continuously strengthening technical knowledge and professional capabilities.

Requirements

Experience: At least 10 years of progressively complex State and Local Tax experience, with demonstrated expertise in sales and use tax.

Education: Bachelor's or master's degree in accounting, taxation, or a related discipline; an advanced degree such as a law degree may also be relevant.

Professional credentials: CPA or CMI certification is preferred.

Technical expertise: Strong proficiency in complex SALT research, tax planning, technical analysis, opinion papers, protest documents, and other technical communications.

Client advisory skills: Demonstrated ability to understand client businesses and industries, develop practical tax strategies, and communicate complex issues clearly to clients and stakeholders.

Audit and controversy experience: Experience managing state and local tax audits and advocating client positions in potentially adversarial settings while maintaining constructive government relationships.

Leadership: Proven ability to lead, mentor, and develop high-performing teams, with strong interpersonal skills, emotional intelligence, and a collaborative leadership style.

Business development: Ability to build and maintain client, professional, government, and referral relationships and contribute to new business development.

Project management: Strong ability to manage multiple clients, assignments, teams, deadlines, budgets, and competing priorities while maintaining high-quality deliverables.

Technology: Proficiency with tax compliance and legal research software, Microsoft Office, and technology-enabled tax service delivery, including AI and automation tools.

Leadership mindset: Strong professional judgment, accountability, intellectual curiosity, ownership mentality, entrepreneurial thinking, and comfort operating in an evolving, growth-focused environment.

Professional development: Commitment to completing at least 40 hours of continuing professional education annually to maintain and expand technical and business skills.

Benefits

• Fully remote: Remote position based in the United States, offering flexibility in how you manage your work.
• Career growth: Opportunity to take a leadership role in a growing SALT practice and contribute to its long-term strategic direction.
• Leadership development: Significant opportunity to mentor professionals, build future leaders, and influence practice culture.
• Ownership culture: Employee-ownership environment designed to encourage collaboration, accountability, and shared success.
• Professional development: Ongoing learning opportunities, technical development, and required continuing professional education support.
• Innovation: Opportunity to help shape technology-enabled service delivery through AI, automation, and workflow improvements.
• Client impact: Work directly with sophisticated clients on complex, high-value multistate tax challenges.
• Collaborative environment: Cross-functional collaboration with tax professionals and other advisory disciplines.
• Compensation: The source posting does not specify a salary range or detailed benefits package.