Tax Director - Blockchain/Digital Assets - Cryptocurrency

Overview

Organizations across industries are rapidly integrating digital assets into their operations, finance, and technology strategies. As they do so, they confront a complex and evolving tax environment that requires multidisciplinary experience, sophisticated structuring, and ongoing technical guidance. BPM’s Digital Assets practice offers an opportunity to engage directly with industry-defining companies while contributing to market insights, thought leadership, and the advancement of institutional adoption. This role is designed for a tax professional who is passionate about the blockchain and digital-asset ecosystem, thrives on technical depth, and wants responsibility for both client leadership and business development in a fast-moving sector.

What You’ll Do

• Lead multidimensional tax engagements, drive marketplace eminence, and help scale BPM’s footprint across the digital-asset ecosystem.

• Client and Technical Leadership:

  • Advises clients on entity structuring, tokenomics, sourcing rules, transaction characterization, revenue recognition, and cross-border tax implications.
  • Conducts and reviews advanced tax research, agreements, models, and filings associated with digital-asset transactions and business models.
  • Presents complex concepts clearly to founders, executives, investment teams, and legal counsel.
  • Translates industry developments, market structure considerations, and protocol mechanics into impactful tax strategies.

• Research, Market Intelligence, and Thought Leadership:

  • Stay attuned to market trends, regulatory shifts, developments in DeFi and stablecoin design, token-economics structures, and broader institutional adoption of blockchain technologies.
  • Lead or co-author thought-leadership materials such as white papers, executive briefs, technical alerts, and market commentary that shape BPM’s public voice in the digital-asset ecosystem.
  • Interpret industry developments and emerging technologies to inform client strategies, tax planning approaches, and internal guidance frameworks.
  • Deliver presentations and educational content that clearly articulate complex digital-asset issues for clients, conferences, industry groups, and internal leadership.
  • Partner with practice leaders to establish thematic priorities, publication pipelines, and coordinated external messaging across the digital-asset practice.

• Engagement Management and Client Service:

  • Serve as the primary engagement manager for advisory and compliance projects.
  • Oversee timelines, budgets, resourcing, staff development, and quality control.
  • Ensure deliverables meet BPM’s standards across technical accuracy, documentation, and communication.
  • Train and mentor staff on both tax fundamentals and digital-asset concepts.
  • Support the development of internal technical frameworks and knowledge-management systems.
  • Promote a learning culture through structured feedback and hands-on coaching.
  • Champion sustainable workplace practices by supporting remote-first operations, promoting paperless workflows through digital collaboration tools, participating in recycling initiatives to minimize paper use, and consistently demonstrating alignment with BPM’s values.

• Business Development and Marketplace Engagement:

  • Participate in client and engagement pursuits, including scoping, proposal development, and pitch meetings.
  • Represent BPM through webinars, conference speaking engagements, podcasts, roundtables, and other industry events.
  • Produce educational materials for enterprise clients, partner organizations, and industry groups.
  • Support ecosystem relationships, including strategic alliances, technology partners, and regulatory or policy-education initiatives.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree.
• CPA license, JD, or EA.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in corporate or partnership tax, M&A tax, international tax, financial instruments, controversy, or structured transaction analysis.
• Strong written communication skills and the ability to convert technical complexity into actionable insights.
• Demonstrated experience managing engagements, budgets, and client workflows.
• Knowledge of digital-asset market structure, blockchain fundamentals, token mechanics, or on-chain analytics tools preferred but not required.
• Ability to work remotely or in a hybrid model and to travel up to approximately 20 percent.
• Curiosity, adaptability, and a demonstrable interest in crypto, DeFi, blockchain infrastructure, or emerging financial technology.

BPM Offers

• Balance & Flexibility: 14 firm holidays (including 2 floating), Flex PTO, paid family leave, winter break, summer hours, and remote work options.

• Total Rewards: personalized benefits, including 401(k) employer match; multiple medical, dental, vision offerings with up to 90% employer-paid premiums; and pet insurance.

• Well-being: interactive wellness platform, progressive mental-health resources, and Colleague Resource Groups (CRGs).

• Professional Development: performance-based bonuses, dedicated coaching, and rich learning through BPM University.