Compliance Lead
Sphere - San Francisco HQ | Remote
Posted Jun 10, 2026
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- $106,409 U.S. median for this role
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- +7.7% - Faster than average
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Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS, May 2024 and Employment Projections, 2024-2034.
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About this role
Compliance Lead San Francisco HQ | Remote 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 are seeking a Compliance Lead to own the end-to-end indirect tax filing and compliance process across multiple jurisdictions. This role will be responsible for ensuring timely, accurate, and scalable return preparation and review, while building processes that reduce risk and increase efficiency. You will act as the operational backbone of the tax function, taking ownership of
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