Senior Tax Technology Analyst

<div class="content-intro"><p><strong>We're transforming the grocery industry</strong></p> <p><span class="im">At Instacart, we invite the world to share love through food because we believe everyone should have access to the food they love and more time to enjoy it together. Where others see a simple need for grocery delivery, we see exciting complexity and endless opportunity to serve the varied needs of our community. We work to deliver an essential service that customers rely on to get their groceries and household goods, while also offering safe and flexible earnings opportunities to Instacart Personal Shoppers.</span></p> <p>Instacart has become a lifeline for millions of people, and we’re building the team to help push our shopping cart forward. If you’re ready to do the best work of your life, come join our table.</p> <p><strong>Instacart is a Flex First team </strong></p> <p>There’s no one-size fits all approach to how we do our best work. Our employees have the flexibility to choose where they do their best work—whether it’s from home, an office, or your favorite coffee shop—while staying connected and building community through regular in-person events. <a href="https://instacart.careers/remote/" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://instacart.careers/remote/source=gmailust=1651869232122000usg=AOvVaw37OlxP8hAKN7nq4YwHQH7e">Learn more about our flexible approach to where we work.</a></p></div><h2><strong>Overview</strong></h2> <p>Instacart’s Tax Team partners across the business to make grocery more accessible while navigating complex global tax rules at scale. Our Tax Technology group builds the data, systems, and tools that keep Instacart compliant, efficient, and insight-driven across a rapidly evolving marketplace.</p> <p>We’re hiring a Senior Tax Technology Analyst to lead high-impact initiatives at the intersection of tax, data, and AI—most notably accelerating our Tax Attribute strategy across a large and ever-changing catalog and exploring ML-assisted solutions with our Machine Learning and Catalog partners. You’ll join a small, dynamic, and highly collaborative team where you’ll own outcomes end to end, work closely with Indirect and Direct Tax, Catalog, ML, Product, and Engineering, and see your work drive measurable business results quickly. This role is remote-friendly across the U.S. and Canada and sits within a Tax Team of 18 teammates, including a 5-person Tax Technology group.</p> <h2><strong>About the Job</strong></h2> <ul> <li>Own and advance our Tax Attribute program—designing data models, governance, and workflows that scale accurate product taxability across millions of items and 100+ jurisdictions, in partnership with Catalog, Indirect Tax, and ML teams.</li> <li>Build, integrate, and optimize tax determination, calculation, and reporting solutions (e.g., with enterprise tax engines and internal services), ensuring accuracy, reliability, and performance within transactional systems.</li> <li>Develop AI/ML-assisted classification and automation for tax use cases (e.g., product/merchant mapping, attribute extraction), including evaluation frameworks, human-in-the-loop quality controls, and measurable precision/recall targets.</li> <li>Design and operate robust, SOX-compliant data pipelines and tooling (SQL, Python, cloud data warehouse, orchestration) with monitoring, alerting, and documentation that enable audit-ready transparency.</li> <li>Lead cross-functional projects from discovery to delivery—translate tax requirements into technical solutions, manage roadmaps and priorities, and communicate progress, risks, and results to stakeholders at every level.</li> </ul> <h2><strong>About You</strong></h2> <p>Minimum Qualifications</p> <ul> <li>Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, Accounting Information Systems, Accounting, or related field; or 8+ years of relevant experience in lieu of a degree.</li> <li>3+ years of experience ... (truncated, view full listing at source)