About Inkle:
Inkle is a US tax & accounting software startup based in San Francisco and Bangalore. We exclusively serve US technology startups. We're on a mission to make accounting, tax and compliance easy, scalable, affordable and on-demand for US-registered companies - using software and human services. We are a team of passionate and creative individuals who believe in the power of technology to simplify complex processes. Inkle launched in 2022, and already serves well over 500 US companies, and we’re growing fast. We’re backed by leading global VC funds.

About the team and this role:
Payroll is one of our newest service lines. Our customers hire their first US employees long before they have anyone in-house who understands US payroll tax, and they come to us with the questions their payroll platform will not answer.
Our customers keep their own HR teams and run their own pay cycles. Inkle owns the tax and compliance layer around payroll, and this role owns it end to end. As our first specialist hire for this service line, you will determine how the work is performed,



handle the technical tasks yourself, and train the team to manage everything that doesn't require your direct involvement.

Responsibilities:
Be Inkle's in-house expert on US payroll tax, and the person customers and internal teams come to with the difficult questions.
Advise founders on how to employ people in the US: W-2 direct employment, PEO or EOR (when hiring outside US), when each makes sense, and what it takes to move from one to another.
Set up and audit customer payroll platforms accurately across Gusto, Rippling, Deel, Justworks, ADP and similar.
Assist with the compliance documentation that has to be in place before a customer can pay anyone: state withholding and unemployment registrations, disability and paid family leave accounts, workers' compensation coverage, EDD, TWC and equivalent state agency accounts, current hire reporting, and state retirement mandates.
Map the full compliance

📌 US Payroll Tax Specialist (India)
🏢 Inkle
📍 India