Job description
About Staffbase
We inspire people to achieve great things together. Our mission is to help organizations unlock the power of inspirational communication with the first AI-native Employee Experience Platform. Our industry-leading and award-winning agentic AI communications channels - intranet, employee app and email solutions - create engaging experiences that connect and empower employees.
Headquartered in Chemnitz, Germany and New York City, with offices in Berlin, London, Sydney, Tokyo, Prague, and Minneapolis–St. Paul, our diverse team of 750+ employees supports 2,000+ customers—reaching over 16.4 million employees—in transforming their employee experience.
We are proud to be a Unicorn company—privately valued at over $1 billion—demonstrating strong growth, innovation, and lasting impact in our industry. Together, we’re shaping the future of workplace communication.
We’re looking for a hands-on and strategic Global Tax Principal to take ownership of our global tax function. This role is central to ensuring our international growth is supported by a robust, efficient, and compliant tax framework.
You will drive continuous improvement across our tax operations, from managing day-to-day compliance to leading transfer pricing projects. You will work closely with our Chemnitz-based finance team and global stakeholders to ensure the organization is set up to scale effectively.
This is a role for someone who thrives on action, takes ownership of complex cross-border challenges, and isn’t afraid to challenge the status quo to make our tax processes better, faster, and more cost-effective.
What you’ll be doing
✅ Drive Global Compliance & Audit Execution
- Own the Compliance Program: Work with Group Finance and external advisors to ensure the timely completion of all tax filings
- Lead Audit Defense: Support Group Finance to deliver year-end tax disclosures (working with outsourced providers) and manage queries and judgment areas during group audits. Ensure all agreed-upon timelines are strictly met.
- Manage Local Audits: Support the Chemnitz-based finance team with tax audits and transfer pricing audits as necessary.
- Rationalize Advisory: Oversee the tax compliance activities and challenge advisory spend to determine the right balance between in-sourcing and outsourcing.
✅ Lead Transfer Pricing & Structural Strategy
- Transfer Pricing: Lead the global transfer pricing lifecycle and benchmarking efforts to ensure arm’s-length compliance across all legal entities. Maintain up-to-date intercompany agreements and proactively review the tax footprint of key hubs to optimize policies and mitigate audit risks as the business evolves.
- Strategic Risk Review: Review the risk and role of specific entities to ensure our TP policies align with the evolving roles of the entities.
- Simplification: Identify areas to simplify intercompany processes and unwind large balances.
✅ Act as a Strategic Business Partner
- Commercial Support: Review tax clauses in sales contracts and answer queries regarding contracting entities to support the sales process.
- Support Expansion and Reorganisation: Act as a tax advisor to the organization regarding geographical expansion plans and legal entity setup.
What Success Looks Like:
- Operational Clarity: The tax compliance program runs smoothly with clear oversight of filings and successful management of audit timelines.
- Strategic Optimization: You have successfully executed key projects such as Transfer Pricing documentation updates, reducing complexity and risk.
- Organizational Impact: The business relies on you for clear tax guidance on expansion, contracts, and structure.
What you need to be successful
- Proven International Tax Experience: A strong track record in managing global tax compliance, transfer pricing, and audits. You are comfortable navigating complex international tax environments
- Analytical & Proactive Mindset: You take ownership of projects and drive them from idea to execution. You anticipate challenges in audits and address them proactively
- Commercial Partnership: You understand the business impact of tax decisions. You balance technical tax requirements with the need to support sales growth through contract reviews and geographical expansion.
- Communication & Influence: You can explain complex tax concepts to non-tax stakeholders across the organization and manage relationships with external auditors and advisors effectively
- Adaptability in Dynamic Environments: Proven ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced setting, you are comfortable navigating ambiguity and driving meaningful outcomes.
- Language Skills: Fluency in English is required to support the global business, proficiency in German is a nice-to-have
What you’ll get
- Competitive Compensation - we offer attractive salary packages including LTIP (unit-based Long Term Incentive Plan)
- Flexibility- we offer flexible working time models and the option of hybrid work, and support this with a yearly flex work allowance of €1560
- Recharge - with 31 vacation days annually (incl. one floating holiday), plus pro rata fully paid Fridays off during August
- Wellbeing - Monthly Wellbeing Allowance €35, from fitness to mental health, hobbies to relaxation
- Support-we’re offering a company pension scheme
- Volunteers Day- you’ll get one day off per year for supporting a social project
