Director, Accounting

Accounting

Team

Location

Virtual, United States

Department

Finance

Job Type

Full Time

Thumbtack helps millions of people confidently care for their homes.

Thumbtack is the one app you need to take care of and improve your home — from personalized guidance to AI tools and a best-in-class hiring experience. Every day in every county of the U.S., people turn to Thumbtack to complete urgent repairs, seasonal maintenance, and bigger improvements. We help homeowners know projects to do, when to do them, and who to hire from our growing community of 300,000 local service businesses. If making an impact inspires you, join us. Imagine what we’ll build together.

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About the Accounting Team

The Accounting team partners across the business to ensure the accuracy, integrity, and transparency of our financial reporting. We play a critical role in capturing and recording company activity in real time, while maintaining strong controls and high standards, and providing financial insights to inform strategic decisions. Beyond compliance, we enable innovation by building scalable processes that support growth and evolving business models.

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 “My team helps create financial integrity and trust with internal and external stakeholders so that they can feel confident about Thumbtack’s financial performance.”

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Lead Accountant

 “My team helps create financial integrity and trust with internal and external stakeholders so that they can feel confident about Thumbtack’s financial performance.”

Abhinav

Lead Accountant

About the Role

As Director, Accounting, you will lead a team of 10 across the United States and the Philippines, overseeing General Accounting, Revenue Accounting, and Accounts Payable. You will partner closely with Finance, Procurement, Payroll, Legal, Tax, Product, and Engineering to ensure accurate reporting and scalable financial operations across the business.

You and your team will build deep expertise in our products and revenue models, serving as the company’s accounting authority and guiding teams through complex and evolving transactions. You will play a key role in strengthening our processes and controls as we prepare for public-company readiness, helping scale the accounting function to support continued growth. This is an opportunity to make a meaningful impact at a high-growth company while building and shaping a best-in-class accounting organization.

What you'll do

  • Set and lead the multi-year strategy for Accounting, building a scalable operating model that supports company growth and public-company readiness.
  • Build and lead a high-performing team, developing managers, evolving org design, and strengthening leadership bench strength. Set performance expectations and foster a culture of accountability and continuous improvement.
  • Own the accuracy and timeliness of close processes, and other recurring and non-recurring accounting and A/P processes, continuously improving quality and performance metrics.
  • Identify opportunities to drive efficiency through streamlining processes or automating via accounting systems and workflows, particularly through use of AI.
  • Drive public-company readiness, strengthening internal controls, SOX compliance, and audit preparedness.
  • Partner on strategic initiatives, ensuring new products, revenue models, and partnerships are structured and operationalized in a scalable, compliant way.

In order to be successful, you must bring

  • 10 to 15+ years of experience, preferably including public accounting firm and publicly traded-company experience.
  • Experience leading teams, and preferably distributed and international teams, with a track record of building scalable, high-performing organizations.
  • Strong operational accounting experience, and driving process improvements including systems selection and implementation, and preferably a passion for AI and experience with Netsuite.
  • Strong understanding of internal controls, and SOX requirements.
  • US GAAP technical accounting fluency, and preferably a CPA.
  • Excellent communication (written and verbal), and passion for cross functional influencing.
  • A balance of operational rigor and strategic thinking, with the ability to scale processes for long-term success.

Expected salary ranges

  • For candidates living in San Francisco / Bay Area, San Jose, New York City, or Seattle metros, the expected salary range for the role is currently $221,000.00 - $286,000.00.
  • For candidates living in Austin, TX or Washington DC metros or in California, Massachusetts, New Jersey, or Washington states, the expected salary range for the role is currently $198,900.00 - $257,400.00.
  • For candidates living in all other US locations, the expected salary range for this role is currently $187,900.00 - $243,100.00.

Actual offered salaries will vary and will be based on various factors, such as calibrated job level, qualifications, skills, competencies, and proficiency for the role

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Thumbtack by the numbers

$600B+
opportunity in Thumbtack’s market home services
4.5M
customers in past 12 months
100M
projects started on Thumbtack
14M
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$3.2B
valuation (as of June 2021)

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Perks & Benefits

Supporting you at work and beyond

In addition to our virtual-first model, we offer:

Paid time off

Recharge with PTO, in addition to 20 company-wide holidays each year, including a week-long end-of-year shutdown.

Remote work stipend and reimbursements

$1,000 USD/$1,400 CAD annual stipend for professional development, self care, office set-up and more. We also provide cell phone and Wi-Fi reimbursements.

Support for parents and caregivers

All parents receive up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave, and birthing parents receive 8 additional weeks, for a total of 20 weeks of 100% paid parental leave (US & CAN).

Family formation benefits

$30,000 USD/CAD lifetime max reimbursement for family planning.

Mental health and financial coaching

12 coaching sessions and 12 therapy sessions for yourself and your dependents. We also offer one-on-one financial guidance from a financial wellness provider.

Thumbtack Bucks

$450 USD/CAD quarterly stipend to book a pro on Thumbtack for virtual or in-person services — anything from home care services to planning a child’s birthday party and beyond.

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Perks & Benefits

Supporting you at work and beyond

In addition to our virtual-first model, we offer:

Paid time off

30 days of PTO (pro-rated based on start date), including a week-long, end-of-year shutdown and a 15% night shift differential.

Remote work stipend and internet allowance

PHP 46,600.00 annual stipend to use for professional development, self care, office set-up and more. We also provide PHP 1,500/month internet allowance.

Mental health and financial coaching

12 coaching sessions and 12 therapy sessions for yourself and your dependents. We also offer one-on-one financial guidance from a financial wellness provider.

Inclusive healthcare

HMO coverage includes yourself and up to three of your dependents (two at no cost). We also cover common-law and same-sex domestic partners.

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