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

• Support – we’re offering a company pension scheme

• Volunteers Day – you’ll get one day off per year for supporting a social project