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Global Mobility Tax Manager

OpenAI


Job Location:

San Francisco, CA - USA

Yearly Salary: USD 220000 - 260000
Posted: 2 October 2026 (18 hours ago)
Application Deadline: 30 December 2026
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

About the Role

OpenAI is building a scalable global mobility tax program that enables employees and the business to move quickly while managing tax compliance risk and employee experience. As Global Mobility Tax Manager you will own the strategy and operating model for mobility tax across international and domestic business travel assignment planning cross-border moves and other priority mobility scenarios.

This is a high-impact role for a builder who can translate complex tax requirements into clear policies durable controls and practical employee and business guidance. You will lead through expertise and influence across Payroll Corporate Tax Finance Legal People business teams and external advisors.

In this role you will:

  • Set the global mobility tax framework principles governance and service model in partnership with Corporate Tax teams.

  • Build clear policies and decision frameworks for international and domestic business travel assignment planning cross-border transfers and other mobility scenarios.

  • Design the end-to-end operating model including ownership handoffs controls escalations employee communications and vendor responsibilities.

  • Partner with Payroll Corporate Tax Finance Legal People and business leaders to identify tax implications early and support sound workforce decisions.

  • Establish reporting dashboards program health metrics and issue-management routines that surface risk and drive timely remediation.

  • Automate high-volume workflows and use AI-enabled tools to improve case handling documentation data quality and employee support.

  • Manage external tax advisors and vendor partners service quality and delivery against agreed standards timelines and outcomes.

  • Monitor regulatory and business changes assess program impact and continuously strengthen policies and controls.

You might thrive in this role if you:

  • Bring 8 years of experience in global mobility tax expatriate tax business-traveler compliance or a closely related field.

  • Have experience in both a leading tax advisory firm and an in-house global mobility tax function.

  • Have built or scaled mobility tax programs in a complex fast-growing multinational environment.

  • Bring knowledge of individual income tax payroll withholding and reporting social security tax equalization or protection and business-traveler compliance.

  • Can turn technical requirements into practical policies controls workflows and clear guidance for employees and business partners.

  • Have a track record of leading complex cross-functional programs influencing senior stakeholders and driving decisions through ambiguity.

  • Use data systems and automation to improve compliance visibility efficiency and service quality.

  • Have experience managing global vendors and implementing mobility tax technology.

  • Communicate with precision exercise sound judgment and balance employee experience with business and compliance needs.

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core and to achieve our mission we must encompass and value the many different perspectives voices and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.

We are an equal opportunity employer and we do not discriminate on the basis of race religion color national origin sex sexual orientation age veteran status disability genetic information or other applicable legally protected characteristic.

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