Full-Time
Global Head of Tax
Cloudkitchens, Los Angeles
Posted on 8/27/2025
CloudKitchens
201-500 employees
Shared kitchen spaces for delivery-only restaurants
No salary listed
Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- 15+ years of relevant tax experience, ideally 5–10 years in leadership.
- Experience at a Big 4 firm, tax law firm, or multinational company strongly preferred.
- Deep expertise in domestic partnerships, complex partnership allocations, global U.S. tax implications, and corporate tax structures.
- Strong communicator able to articulate complex tax concepts for both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Track record of building strong cross-functional relationships with legal, finance, and accounting teams.
- Lead all aspects of global tax strategy, planning, and compliance, covering research, analysis, and interpretation of complex regulations across multiple jurisdictions.
- Design and execute both short- and long-term tax strategies to mitigate risk and maximize after-tax profits while ensuring compliance with federal, state, and international regulations.
- Oversee tax structuring for mergers, acquisitions, reorganizations, and transfer pricing.
- Manage tax allocations for partnerships and oversee investor tax reporting.
- Direct responses to tax authority inquiries and audits worldwide, preparing detailed analysis and documentation.
- Maintain accurate tax records, including transaction reporting and compliance documentation.
- Partner with external advisors (auditors, counsel, regulators) on key tax matters.
- Build, lead, and develop a globally dispersed team of tax professionals, setting a high bar for performance and execution.
- None specified
CloudKitchens provides fully equipped shared kitchen spaces for delivery-only restaurants in prime locations. It rents production-ready kitchens and handles financing, construction, permitting, maintenance, and security, plus its proprietary technology that centralizes delivery orders and analyzes demand. Operators can open in as little as one month and test multiple concepts with lower upfront investment and risk. The company aims to help chains and local restaurants grow their delivery business by offering turnkey spaces and ongoing management so they can focus on making great food and keeping employees happy.
Company Size
201-500
Company Stage
Late Stage VC
Total Funding
$1.4B
Headquarters
Los Angeles, California
Founded
2018
Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Trusted by 600+ brands, supporting enterprise customer acquisition.[4]
- Pressed Juicery is expanding into 27 CloudKitchens locations nationwide.
- Clustered facilities in Houston and Sacramento improve local delivery density.[5]
What critics are saying
- DoorDash, Uber Eats, and Grubhub control order access and fee structures.
- Chains can internalize delivery kitchens after validating demand, reducing CloudKitchens’ revenue.
- Lawsuits over discrimination and labor violations damage landlord and brand confidence.
What makes CloudKitchens unique
- Operates delivery-only kitchens combining real estate, equipment, and software.[1][3]
- Targets expansion with lower capital and faster launch than traditional restaurants.[2][4]
- Uses Otter to consolidate multi-platform delivery orders for operators.[1][3]
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While the majority of consumers are not sold on ghost kitchens, a significant portion relishes the reprieve that the all-digital model gives from face-to-face interaction.By the NumbersThe PYMNTS Intelligence report, “Connected Dining: The Robot Will Take Your Order Now,” drew from a survey of a census-balanced survey of nearly 2,000 U.S. consumers to gauge their opinions about different restaurant technologies and explore what factors made them feel enthusiastic, curious or hesitant.The study found that, among the roughly half (48%) of consumers who are interested in virtual kitchens, 30% of them reported that this interest comes at least in part from the fact that these digital eateries do not require any interaction with other people.The Data in ContextOverall, the ghost kitchen space is evolving. For instance, major restaurant aggregator Uber Eats made dramatic changes to how it handles virtual brands earlier this year, instating new regulations and cutting 8,000 online storefronts from its platform.“With the boom in virtual restaurants over the past several years, we’ve noticed a wide range of approaches to creating virtual restaurant brands,” John Mullenholz, Uber’s head of virtual restaurants and dark kitchens for the U.S. and Canada, said in a statement.Some brands are shifting away from ghost kitchens towards more traditional channels. Take, for instance, Brinker International, the parent company of Chili’s Grill & Bar, Maggiano’s Little Italy and two virtual brands, which shared earlier this year that it is turning its focus away from its “unprofitable” virtual brands, according to CEO Kevin Hochman, toward its brick-and-mortar business.Moreover, ghost kitchen startup CloudKitchens, led by Uber co-founder and ex-CEO Travis Kalanick, has also come on hard times this year, reportedly firing staff and closing warehouses. Its buildings were said to be only at half capacity at the end of the first quarter, with the company failing to win enough restaurant contracts to fuel sales