Black Ore

AI-powered solutions to boost professional efficiency

Tax Domain Expert - CPA

Tax AccountingConfirmed live in the last 24 hours

Full-timeNew York, NY, USA

About the Job

Requirements

CPA is required; an Enrolled Agent credential is considered for customer-facing roles.
At least 2 years of experience in public accounting, a CPA or tax services firm, or tax technology is required.
Hands-on preparation and review of individual and business returns is required, including Form 1040; experience with Forms 1065, 1120-S, or 1041 is a strong plus.
Strong review and tie-out skills are required, with attention to detail for accurate automation.
Clear written and verbal communication is required, especially the ability to explain tax concepts to non-tax audiences.
Comfort with modern artificial intelligence tools and the ability to learn new software and workflows quickly are required.
Enthusiasm for using artificial intelligence to improve tax work is required.

Responsibilities

Explain complex tax and accounting concepts to engineers, artificial intelligence experts, designers, and sales and customer teams.
Translate tax rules, regulatory guidance, and preparer workflows into requirements, data models, business rules, and acceptance criteria.
Talk to CPA firms to identify high-impact problems; onboard and train staff; and drive adoption, usage, and change management in tax preparation processes.
Use authoritative sources to define requirements, rule sets, and taxonomies, and keep the product current with tax law changes.
Write product requirements documents and user stories, define success metrics, verify outputs against tied-out returns, and plan launches with go-to-market and support teams.
Capture edge cases and customer feedback with supporting evidence, and partner with artificial intelligence, data, and engineering teams to address fixes.
Use artificial intelligence tools to accelerate work on models, rules, documentation, and analysis.

Desired Qualifications

Experience with tax software such as CCH Axcess, ProSystem fx, GoSystem, UltraTax, Lacerte, ProConnect, or Drake, or optical character recognition tools such as SurePrep 1040SCAN or CCH AutoFlow.
Experience with SQL and relational databases, structured data concepts, or expressing business rules in Python, JavaScript, or similar languages.
Product management experience in B2B software as a service or fintech, including writing product requirements documents and shipping and measuring features.
Customer success, implementation, or client advisory experience, including project-managing organizational change at a firm.
A track record of creating new processes and playbooks in fast-moving environments.

Black Ore is building the leading AI platform designed to accelerate financial services. The company's flagship offering, Tax Autopilot, leverages proprietary AI agents to automate tax preparation and compliance, helping CPA & tax firms overcome the talent shortage and accelerate growth for their practice.

Founded in 2022, we launched with $60 million in early stage funding from some of the world’s leading investors including a16z, Founders Fund, General Catalyst, Khosla Ventures, Oak HC/FT, Trust Ventures and leading tech founders/angel investors including Jason Gardner (Founder and CEO of Marqeta), Max Levchin (Founder of Paypal and Affirm), Tom Glocer (Former CEO of Thomson Reuters), Gokul Rajaram, and Mark Britto (EVP, CPO, PayPal).

Our team has an incredibly ambitious vision to completely transform the way businesses and consumers interact in financial services. We’re looking to hire strong team members to grow the team. Some of the traits we look for are:

Owner Mentality - Desire to take initiative, identify problems, and implement solutions
Mission Driven - Passion for building AI/ML solutions that reimagine how businesses and consumers operate
Intellectually Curious - Excitement going deep for building detailed understanding of the function, role, customer, and problem space
Team Oriented - Ability to collaborate respectfully and put the team above the self

The Role(s):

We're hiring CPAs who want to work at the intersection of tax practice and AI. You'll bring deep, hands-on tax experience to help us build, ship and deploy software that tax professionals rely on every filing season.This is a single application for several open roles. Based on your background and interests, we'll match you to the path that fits best.

What You Could Be Doing:

Be the tax expert in the room: explain complex tax and accounting concepts to engineers, AI experts, designers and sales and customer teams.
Translate tax into product: turn tax rules, regulatory guidance and real preparer workflows into requirements, data models, business rules and acceptance criteria.
Work directly with customers: talk to CPA firms to find their highest-impact problems; onboard and train staff; and drive adoption, usage and change management inside their tax prep process.
Research and stay current: use authoritative sources to define requirements, rule sets and taxonomies, and keep the product current with tax law changes.
Ship and measure: write PRDs and user stories, define success metrics, verify outputs against tied-out returns, and plan launches with go-to-market and support teams.
Close the feedback loop: capture edge cases and customer feedback with evidence attached, and partner with AI, data and engineering on fixes.
Build with AI: use AI tools to speed up your own work, from models and rules to documentation and analys

What you bring:

CPA (EA considered for customer-facing roles)
2+ years in public accounting, a CPA or tax services firm, or tax technology
Hands-on preparation and review of individual and business returns: 1040 required; 1065, 1120-S or 1041 a strong plus
Strong review and tie-out skills, with the attention to detail that accurate automation depends on
Clear written and verbal communication, especially explaining tax to non-tax audiences
Comfortable with modern AI tools and quick to learn new software and workflows
Excited about using AI to improve how tax work gets done

Nice to Have's

Tax software: CCH Axcess or ProSystem fx, GoSystem, UltraTax, Lacerte, ProConnect, Drake, or OCR tools such as SurePrep 1040SCAN or CCH AutoFlow
Technical skills: SQL and relational databases, structured data concepts, or expressing business rules in Python, JavaScript or similar
Product experience: product management in B2B SaaS or fintech, including writing PRDs and shipping and measuring features
Customer experience: customer success, implementation or client advisory work, including project-managing change at a firm
Builder mindset: a track record of creating new processes and playbooks in fast-moving environments

What we offer:

Competitive salary and equity based compensation
Best-in-Class health benefits
- Platinum, 100% Employer-paid medical, dental and vision insurance
- Health Savings Account (HSA) and Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
- Additional Health programs (e.g., One Medical, Talkspace, Kindbody)
401K, Roth 401k and other employer sponsored investment benefits
Parental Leave
Unlimited PTO
Relocation support to NYC (as needed)

About the Company

Black Ore

AI-powered solutions to boost professional efficiency

Blackore.ai is a technology company that develops and applies artificial intelligence to reduce workloads, remove repetitive tasks, and streamline inefficiencies for professionals. Its products and services are AI-powered solutions (likely software-as-a-service) aimed at helping businesses optimize operations and boost productivity. The company differentiates itself by focusing on eliminating redundancies in work processes and improving efficiency, targeting professionals and organizations that need to do more with less. The goal is to transform how professionals work by leveraging advanced AI to automate tasks, cut waste, and enhance decision-making, with growth driven by expanding demand for AI across various industries.

Company size: 1-10
Company stage: Early VC
Total funding: $60M
Headquarters: Austin, TX
Founded: 2022

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