Town’s mission is to give every small business the financial services edge of a Fortune 500 company. We’re starting by building the world’s most advanced small business tax advisory, powered by AI. Each year, more than 10 million business owners feel frustrated, anxious, and overwhelmed by their taxes—they need expert guidance. Town is that expert.

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Meet the founders

Jean-Denis Greze — former CTO at Plaid, where he grew the Engineering, Product, Design org to over 500 while scaling the company to over $300M in revenue
Tony Vincent — Director of Applied AI Product at Google, co-founder of Aspen (acquired by Google) and Sold (acquired by Dropbox)

Key challenges you’ll be tackling

Tax preparation is undergoing a transformation—what traditionally took months can now be completed in minutes. You’ll have the unique opportunity to design an entirely new user experience that integrates human expertise and AI insights. How do we replace lengthy questionnaires when we can pre-fill answers from customer systems? How do we create a seamless, intuitive interface that makes sophisticated automation feel simple and approachable? How do we redesign communication with clients to leverage LLMs across every point of interaction across our website, app, email, text, and video meetings. These challenges will require creativity, innovation, and a deep understanding of front-end development.

Moreover, our front-end surface area covers all of the tooling that our CPAs use. We’re rethinking from the ground-up how tax returns are prepared — where do we put the best AI tools in the hands of accountants and tax pros, how do humans review the output of our automated tax prep systems, and how do we manage these flows across thousands of customers and accountants.

Finally, a lot of experiences around tax prep have not been innovated on in decades. We’re quickly iterating on tools that offer free tax extensions, or allow you to evaluate past returns for missed deductions, or help you BNPL for taxes to ease SMBs’ cashflow crunch during tax season. All of these experiences are huge opportunities to build best-in-class front-end.

This is an incredibly early-stage opportunity, and may technical decisions across our front-end are wide open. If that excites you, let’s chat!

How we work

No BS culture: we want to do great work, without politics or process getting in the way. We're hiring people who are excited to grow a company from day one. We seek individuals who are hungry to do their best work alongside a small group of like-minded colleagues. Join us if you want to push yourself, build something extraordinary, and learn from experienced teammates who will challenge you to grow.
Getting in on the ground floor:
- Company Impact: As one of our first hires, you'll shape both technical and product direction for this massive opportunity. Our early team is all engineers except for one designer — you’ll own the product and outcome from your first day!
- Work directly with our world-class founding team. You'll collaborate in-person with Tony, Jean-Denis, and Angela over the next 18–24 months. Join us for energetic whiteboard sessions, a vibrant environment, and the chance to do your best work!
We work as a small team 5 days a week in-person in SF. We really like whiteboards and find they're most effective when the whole team can collaborate in front of them.
- Both founders have kids and families, and we prioritize quality work over hours logged. We understand the need for flexibility—it's absolutely fine to take time for doctor's appointments, children's recitals, and other family commitments when needed.

Business traction

In just a couple of months, our strategy of partnering with fintechs to reach SMBs is showing early signs of success. We've signed several partnerships that will send us hundreds of SMBs for FY 2024 taxes (and have already sent us 10+ SMBs in just the last few weeks). Additionally, we will do smaller pilots with a few other players in the accounting tech space to prove the quality of our product, opening much larger revenue opportunities in 2026+.
We’ve raised an $18m seed round led by First Round Capital, with participation from Conviction (investor in Harvey, HeyGen, Cognition, Sierra, etc.) and Alt Capital (investor in Leya, Owner, The SF Compute Company), as well as world-class angels including Adam D'Angelo, Christina Cacioppo, Helen Min, Immad Akhund, Soleio Cuervo, and William Hockey.

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If you’re interested in joining the team, send an email to: [email protected]

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