Director of Tax

Job description

Company Overview

Kairos Power is a new nuclear energy technology and engineering company whose mission is to enable the world’s transition to clean energy, with the ultimate goal to dramatically improve people’s quality of life while protecting the environment. This goal will be accomplished through the commercialization of the fluoride-salt-cooled, high-temperature reactor (FHR) that can be deployed with robust safety, affordable costs, and flexible operation to accommodate the expansion of variable renewables.

Job Summary

Kairos Power is seeking a Director of Tax to lead the company’s tax strategy, compliance, reporting, and incentive monetization activities. This role is central to maximizing the value of federal and state tax incentives—including R&D tax credits; clean electricity and advanced nuclear investment and production tax credits; and other energy, manufacturing, and technology related programs—while ensuring disciplined management of the company’s broader tax obligations.

The Director of Tax will serve as the company’s senior tax advisor, partnering with Finance, Accounting, Legal, Strategy, Business Development, Engineering, Operations, Procurement, and other teams to integrate tax considerations into business decisions, financial planning, new ventures, geographic expansion, transactions, and capital investment. The role will be highly hands-on initially and will build the processes, systems, controls, and team required as Kairos transitions from a development-stage company to a scaled industrial enterprise and moves toward public-company standards.

This is not a narrow compliance role. The Director of Tax will be a value-creation leader and strategic business partner—converting Kairos’ innovation and capital investment into cash benefits, integrating tax into major decisions, and building the infrastructure, controls, systems, and team required for scale and future public-market access.

Responsibilities

Enterprise Tax Strategy & Business Partnership

• Develop and execute an enterprise tax strategy that supports business objectives, optimizes tax outcomes, and manages tax risk while maintaining full compliance with applicable laws and regulations.

• Advise senior leadership on the tax implications of significant business decisions, including capital investments, entity and ownership structures, financings, new ventures, geographic expansion, mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and restructurings.

• Partner with Finance, Strategy, and Business Development to incorporate tax implications, incentive economics, and cash-tax impacts into financial models, budgets, forecasts, and investment decisions.

• Monitor legislative, regulatory, and accounting developments and translate changes into clear recommendations, implementation plans, and risk-management actions.

Federal and State Tax Incentives & Credits

• Lead the identification, pursuit, documentation, and monetization of federal and state tax incentives, including but not limited to:

• Federal and state clean energy and advanced nuclear incentives, with particular emphasis on investment tax credits for eligible nuclear facilities, as well as production tax credits and other project-specific programs.

• R&D tax credits, including Section 41 qualification and related Section 174 analysis and documentation.

• Manufacturing, energy, and technology-related credits.

• Transferable credits and other monetization mechanisms, including refundable programs where applicable.

• Partner closely with engineering, operations, finance, and legal teams to:

• Identify qualifying activities, assets, and expenditures.

• Establish defensible methodologies for credit calculation and allocation.

• Prepare qualitative and quantitative workpapers, audit-ready documentation, and substantiation.

• Manage external advisors supporting incentive studies, filings, credit transferability, monetization, and examinations.

• Oversee credit utilization, carryforwards, refunds, transfer proceeds, and cash-realization timing.

• Establish processes to track and report the financial impact of credits and incentives and confirm that approved benefits are fully realized.

• Establish processes to monitor ongoing incentive conditions and commitments, identify potential recapture or repayment exposure, and coordinate corrective actions with responsible teams.

Income, Partnership & Financial Reporting

• Own U.S. federal, state, and local income tax compliance and reporting, as well as international filings and planning if required by the company’s activities.

• Oversee partnership and owner-reporting matters for entities taxed as partnerships, including partnership returns, Schedule K-1s, allocations, distributions, and owner inquiries, as applicable.

• Manage amended or restated returns, administrative adjustment requests, and related owner reporting when required.

• Manage income tax provision calculations, financial statement disclosures, and related repo

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