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title: 'E-Invoicing Lead at Sphere, Inc.'
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# E-Invoicing Lead at Sphere, Inc.

- **Company:** Sphere, Inc.
- **Location:** United States
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-07-14
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-06
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/sphere/bb940d09-1198-45b2-9fff-797ecad4a6aa

## Job description

## ABOUT SPHERE

Every breakthrough in trade infrastructure has followed the same pattern: reduce a transaction cost, expand the market. Containerization for goods. SWIFT for money. Stripe for payments. Compliance is one of the last and largest — and the hardest, because trade rules aren't data to be looked up. They're a complex adaptive system with 190+ sovereign jurisdictions, in different languages, changing constantly, reacting to each other.

Sphere built the system that solves it. Our AI (TRAM) ingests global trade law, interprets it, resolves conflicts across jurisdictions, and produces compliance determinations more reliable than human experts. We handle the entire lifecycle — calculation, registration, filing, remittance — at millisecond latency with zero downtime.

- Backed by a16z and YC. $21M Series A, 30%+ month-over-month growth, customers include ElevenLabs, Replit, Deel, Runway, and Lovable.
- Small team, global surface area. Everyone owns a domain that would be a full team at a larger company. San Francisco, five days in office.
- The problem keeps compounding. Expanding into input tax, withholding, e-invoicing, tariffs — each multiplies the complexity. Tens of millions of transactions today, billions ahead.

## THE ROLE

We're looking for an experienced leader to own our global e-invoicing strategy and help build a best-in-class e-invoicing platform for our customers. In this role, you'll combine deep expertise in global indirect tax and e-invoicing regulations with strong product and systems thinking to design scalable solutions that enable customers to comply with rapidly evolving global mandates.

You'll work at the intersection of Tax, Product, and Engineering, translating complex regulatory requirements into product capabilities that can be deployed across dozens of countries. You'll define the roadmap for our e-invoicing offering, prioritize market expansion, and ensure our platform remains ahead of global regulatory change.

This is an opportunity to shape one of the company's core products and help define how businesses manage tax compliance in an increasingly digital world.

## WHAT YOU'LL DO

Within days:

- Serve as the company's subject matter expert on global e-invoicing, real-time digital reporting requirements, and related indirect tax regulations
- Partner closely with Product and Engineering to translate regulatory requirements into scalable product features and technical requirements.
- Define country-specific business requirements, validation rules, invoice schemas, and compliance workflows for new market launches.
- Identify opportunities to simplify implementation, reduce operational complexity, and improve the customer experience.

Within months:

- Own the global e-invoicing strategy for our platform, defining the roadmap and priorities for expanding our product across international markets.
- Monitor emerging global e-invoicing regulations and proactively incorporate regulatory changes into our product roadmap.
- Prioritize implementation efforts based on customer demand, regulatory deadlines, and strategic business objectives.
- Collaborate with Customer Success, Sales, Solutions Engineering, and Implementation teams to support customer onboarding and successful deployments.
- Represent the company internally and externally as a trusted expert on global e-invoicing and digital tax compliance.
- Build the foundation for a world-class global e-invoicing program that enables customers to confidently comply with evolving tax regulations.

## REQUIREMENTS

- 8+ years of experience in indirect tax, tax technology, VAT/GST, or global tax compliance.
- 3+ years direct e-invoicing experience
- Experience designing or implementing e-invoicing solutions across multiple countries.
- Strong experience partnering with Product and Engineering teams to build tax technology products.
- Demonstrated ability to translate complex regulatory requirements into scalable product specifications and technical requirements.
- Excellent program management skills with experience leading complex cross-functional initiatives.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to work effectively across technical and non-technical teams.
- Strategic mindset with the ability to balance regulatory requirements, customer needs, and product scalability.

## NICE TO HAVES

- Experience building or managing a commercial e-invoicing platform or tax technology product.
- Experience with PEPPOL, clearance models, CTC frameworks, and real-time reporting systems.
- Experience integrating with ERP systems such as SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics, or NetSuite.
- Familiarity with APIs, distributed systems, and enterprise software architecture.

## WHO YOU ARE

You'll thrive here if:

- You're a Dog. You've been underestimated, gone through struggle, and never stopped running. You have a chip on your shoulder and enormous drive. You look at Stripe, Deel, and Flexport all punting on compliance and think: good, that means the opportunity is ours. Hunger beats pedigree.
- Early stage is in your bones. You've built things where there's no playbook and nobody handing you the answer. You define the problem instead of waiting for instructions.
- You own it end to end. Give you a goal and you figure out your own path. Small team, global surface area — everyone owns a domain that would be a full team at a larger company. No one tells you how.
- You believe speed and accuracy are both possible. We're building a complex product that requires robustness and 100% uptime, and we have to build at our customers' pace. Move fast. Don't break things. Both.

This won't be a fit if:

- You need structure handed to you or ambiguity feels draining rather than motivating
- You want to manage people more than own hard problems (we're a flat, experienced team — everyone builds)
- You're used to "good enough" shipping (small errors have outsized impact here)

## About Sphere, Inc.

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Sphere automates global cross-border tax compliance (sales tax, VAT, GST) using an AI-native engine that reads and interprets tax law across 190+ countries.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA
- **Founded**: 2022 (estimated based on first venture round)
- **Founders**: Nicholas Rudder (CEO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Tax compliance software, cross-border trade, financial infrastructure
- **Target customers**: B2B – mid-market to enterprise companies selling goods or services internationally (e.g., digital platforms, e‑commerce, SaaS)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "Make the world one market" – reduce the compliance cost of every transaction to zero.

## Products & Services
- **Global Tax Compliance Platform**: End-to-end automation for sales tax, VAT, and GST across 100+ regions. Modules include registration, calculation & collection, filing & remittance, and monitoring.
- **Tax Review and Assessment Model (TRAM)**: Proprietary AI engine that reads unstructured legal text, reasons about how tax law applies, and produces determinations with full citations. Continuously ingests statute law, regulations, case law, and administrative guidance from official sources.
- **Local Rails to Tax Authorities**: Direct integrations with 100+ tax authorities worldwide for filing and remittance, enabling true end-to-end automation.
- **API & Integrations**: Plugs into major billing platforms and payroll providers; 24/7 Slack-based support from tax experts.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: $21M Series A (led by a16z, announced in 2024); annual revenue estimated at $1M (early-stage, fast-growing)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: a16z, Felicis Ventures, Y Combinator, Uncommon Capital; angel investors include founders of Go1, Lyft, BetterUp, Xendit, Flexport
- **Growth Signals**: Double-digit month-over-month revenue growth (stated on website); headcount grew ~88% YoY (LinkedIn, though now ~50 employees per company page); processing billions in transaction value; customers include ElevenLabs, Replit, Deel, Lovable, Granola, Fal, Linktree

## Competitive Advantages
- **AI-native legal reasoning**: TRAM does multi-step analysis rather than keyword matching, enabling accurate determinations across constantly changing tax codes.
- **End-to-end via local rails**: No other platform offers direct filing and remittance into 100+ tax authorities globally.
- **Human-in-the-loop accuracy**: Every determination is reviewed by tax experts before production; 90% are approved automatically with median review under 10 seconds.
- **Built for complexity**: Designed to handle the adaptive system of 190+ sovereign tax jurisdictions that change frequently.

## Strategic Focus
- Expand coverage to additional jurisdictions and tax types (e.g., customs duties)
- Scale the platform to handle billions of transactions annually
- Deepen integrations with billing, e‑commerce, and payroll systems
- Continue building AI capabilities to monitor real-time law changes and flag affected determinations

## Why Work Here
- **Small team, massive impact**: ~50 people building infrastructure that will touch billions of transactions – "every new hire changes the company."
- **Culture of ownership and expertise**: Team includes experienced tax professionals, engineers, and operators; fast-paced, low bureaucracy.
- **Remote/hybrid/office**: Primarily in-office at San Francisco HQ (Built In lists on-site, remote roles also available for some positions).
- **Notable perks**: Early-stage equity, direct mentorship from founding team, chance to shape product and engineering culture from the ground up.
- **Growth trajectory**: Double-digit MoM revenue growth, backed by top-tier investors, and solving a massive ($200T+ cross-border goods/services) problem.

## Sources
1. [getsphere.com - About Us](https://www.getsphere.com/about-us)
2. [getsphere.com - Homepage](https://www.getsphere.com/)
3. [Built In - Sphere Careers](https://builtin.com/company/sphere-getspherecom)
4. [LinkedIn - Sphere](https://www.linkedin.com/company/getsphere)
5. [Ashby - Lead AI Engineer Job Posting](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/sphere/4e3c5943-bd07-4ce1-8e13-68b00221d0b7)

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