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title: 'Tax & Estate Director at Interplay'
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# Tax & Estate Director at Interplay

- **Company:** Interplay
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Employment:** part-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-07-28
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/interplay/2bc5dc5f-7e83-4e49-ac7f-136ec57ad210

## Job description

Tax & Estate Director

Ascend Family Office

## LOCATION

New York, NY

Hybrid: Onsite 2+ days a week (NoHo Office)

Part- Time: ~20-25 hours a week

Hourly rate: ~$120- $150 an hour

## JOB DESCRIPTION

Ascend is a New York City-based multi-family office, which serves a small number of UHNW clients. The firm provides a multitude of core services, including a proprietary endowment style investment program.

The firm represents partners and friends of Interplay, a New York City-based innovation ecosystem focused on building high-growth companies.

The team is seeking to add a world-class estate counsel to drive proactive and innovative estate planning strategies for member families.

## WHAT YOU’LL DO

- Advise families on applicable tax strategies, estate planning strategies, and insurance strategies, coordinating with domain experts as needed.
- Represent the estate planning perspective in internal investment and planning decisions.
- Serve as a point of contact for family principals, bridging internal teams, vendors, and custodians to provide an unparalleled, high-touch experience that anticipates and exceeds client expectations.
- Collaborate with the investment team on customized asset allocation and cash management plans, from formulation to execution.
- Contribute to our business development efforts, including onboarding of new families and expanding client service offering.
- Monitor and abide by compliance guidelines within SEC requirements to safeguard both the firm and its clients.

## PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

- Deep understanding of financial markets, investments, and financial planning.
- 7+ years of proven experience in estate law or a similar field.
- Highly developed emotional intelligence (EQ) and social skills.
- High degree of familiarity with client relationship management and customer service best practices.
- Excellent communication, negotiation, and presentation skills.

## WHO YOU ARE

- A self-starter who is motivated to learn.
- You get things done, find a way around walls and pursue excellence.
- A versatile problem solver who can handle a multitude of responsibilities and is not afraid to get their hands dirty.
- A highly organized and capable multi-tasker, managing priorities and deadlines while maintaining high quality and professionalism.
- An empathetic listener who builds genuine, trust-based relationships with clients, understanding unique needs and constraints.
- A team player with excellent interpersonal skills, open to receiving and providing constructive feedback.
- An effective communicator, displaying comfort and confidence when interacting with high-profile clients, senior leadership, and cross-team colleagues.

## About Interplay

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Interplay is a startup ecosystem that provides venture capital, an accelerator, a studio, and platform services to support founders and innovation at every stage.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Venture Capital & Operating Platform)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2012
- **Founders**: Mark Peter Davis (Managing Partner)

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Venture Capital, Startup Acceleration, Company Building (Studio), Operating Services, Multi-Family Office
- **Target customers**: Early-stage founders, startups (Pre-Seed to Series B), and high-net-worth individuals (family office clients)
- **Mission statement**: “Entrepreneurs are the primary driver of social change. Our goal is to accelerate their journey.”

## Products & Services
- **Venture Capital**: Invests $500K–$2M in early-stage North American tech companies, with a focus on application-layer AI and marketplace businesses. Co-invests in Seed to Series B rounds (sweet spot: Series A).
- **Accelerator**: Provides a $50K cash investment for a 6% equity stake, plus a six-month remote program with hands-on support as interim co-founders. Sector-agnostic but prefers pure software and tech-enabled services.
- **Studio**: Partners with CEOs to build companies from scratch, typically starting from internal ideas. Invests $100K–$10M+ to break the cold-start problem.
- **Platform**: Offers core operating services (accounting, marketing, legal, professional development, outsourcing) and vendor discounts to portfolio companies.
- **Ascend (Multi-Family Office)**: Provides full-service portfolio and investment management, plus advisory services for estate planning, philanthropy, taxes, and more.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly available
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue of $9.0M (as of latest data)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not disclosed; the firm acts as a conviction co-investor and maintains a network of hundreds of executives.
- **Growth Signals**: 28 employees (+25% YoY), 8,319 LinkedIn followers (+16.7% yearly), active job postings (+200% yearly), and a growing presence in Mexico, Pakistan, and the United Kingdom.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Full‑stack ecosystem** – Combines capital, company building, and operational support under one roof, allowing founders to access multiple resources seamlessly.
- **Hands‑on, interim co‑founder model** – In the accelerator, Interplay embeds itself as an interim co-founder, aligning incentives through equity (6% common stock).
- **Network density** – A large pool of executives, engineers, and interns that portfolio companies can tap into for talent and introductions.
- **Conviction co‑investing** – Performs its own underwriting but never leads, allowing it to remain flexible and aligned with market pricing.

## Strategic Focus
- **Investment thesis**: Application-layer AI and marketplace businesses in North America (primarily US, also Canada and Latin America).
- **Studio approach**: Identifies gaps in society’s “social fabric” and builds commercially viable solutions, often recruiting a co-founder/CEO after internal ideation and diligence.
- **Global reach with US focus**: Accelerator is remote and open worldwide, but companies must target US customers; studio companies are built in the US.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Rated 4.6/5 on LinkedIn (Work-Life: 4.5, Compensation: 3.9, Culture: 5.0, Career: 4.7).
- **Work model**: Accelerator program is fully remote; studio and venture teams likely operate in a hybrid environment based in New York.
- **Open roles** (as of search date): Cofounder + CEO (Manufacturing), Associate (AI), VP of Engineering – indicating opportunities for both operators and investors.
- **Perks**: “Unreasonable support” through platform services, access to a vast executive network, and a collaborative environment where employees work directly with founders.

## Sources
1. [interplay.vc – Homepage](https://www.interplay.vc/)
2. [interplay.vc – About](https://www.interplay.vc/about)
3. [interplay.vc – Jobs](https://www.interplay.vc/jobs)
4. [interplay.vc – Ventures](https://www.interplay.vc/ventures)
5. [LinkedIn – Interplay](https://www.linkedin.com/company/interplayecosystem)

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