About this role
About the Team
DoorDash is looking for a hands-on Associate Manager, Indirect Tax Audit Analytics to join our growing Tax Controversy team. The Tax Controversy team serves DoorDash by producing excellent controversy outcomes, providing timely and accurate information on material risks to the business, and improving the tax team with actionable feedback from audits. As DoorDash's business has grown across the United States and the world, so have its tax audits and appeals.
You will work alongside a Senior Manager and Manager who oversee our portfolio of indirect tax audits, report to the controversy lead/tax counsel, and engage with partners across Tax, Accounting, and Tax Tech. You will be able to work remote, based within the US, with limited travel for team with events or offsites.
About the Role
This role is the Tax Controversy team's data and analytics expert. Fundamentally, you will be a master of answering audit questions with data — whether those questions come directly from a state or local tax auditor or internally as we gauge our risk on an issue. You will turn large, complex transactional datasets into clear, persuasive, well-documented answers, and you will become fluent in the sales and use tax (and gross receipts tax) issues at the center of our audits.
You will be our primary interface with the Tax Tech team and our leader in applying modern AI tooling to controversy work — ingesting and reconciling auditor workpapers, summarizing transaction populations, drafting first-pass responses, and surfacing patterns in our data. You don't need to be an engineer; you do need to be a tax professional who is genuinely curious about these tools and ready to set the bar for how our team uses them.
You're excited about this opportunity because you will…
• Be the team's go-to person for getting deep into audit data and producing the analyses that answer our hardest external and internal questions.
• Build expertise on unsettled legal and factual issues in sales and use tax.
• Lead our team's adoption of AI tooling — shaping how a modern in-house tax controversy function works.
• Partner closely with our Tax Tech team and grow into the controversy team's expert on how DoorDash's data flows.
• Roll up your sleeves on whatever the team needs — from a one-off auditor request to a multi-month data project.
We're excited about you because…
• You have 4+ years of experience with state and local tax compliance, audits, or controversy, gained inside a tax function — a Big 4 or consulting firm indirect tax practice, a state revenue agency, or an in-house corporate tax team with a meaningful indirect tax operation.
• You have a passion for finding answers in data. You don't just execute the steps you're given — you take a problem, get into the data, and come back with conclusions, flagging what looks wrong without being asked.
• You thoroughly understand sales and use taxes, including marketplace facilitator laws. Experience with U.S. g