Associate - Tax

About Norm

Norm builds AI-native professional services firms and the technology that powers them. Our mission is to help expert professionals deliver better work at greater scale.

Developing the technology and the firms together lets us rethink how work gets done, how teams operate and what clients can expect. Professional judgment and experience guide what we build, while advances in the technology expand what our firms can deliver. Our shared agentic platform connects that progress across teams and services.

Founded in 2023, Norm brings together experts across engineering, research, product, design and professional practice. Our legal and compliance platform serves institutions representing more than $35 trillion in combined assets under management.

Norm also powers Norm Law, LLP, an affiliated AI-native law firm whose attorneys advise leading institutions on complex corporate matters.

AI Fluency

Norm prefers all team members to be fluent in AI. Successful candidates actively use AI in their day-to-day work to support thinking, creation, and problem-solving. They use it to improve the quality and speed of their work and to continuously refine how work gets done end-to-end.

Candidates should be prepared to demonstrate and discuss their AI usage throughout the interview process, including concrete examples of tools, workflows, and outcomes. We look for practical, hands-on experience, not theoretical familiarity.

This Role

As a Tax Associate at Norm Law, you will support a 360-degree funds tax practice representing marquee managers across private equity, venture, credit, hedge, and other private investment fund matters. You'll work on entity structuring, fund formation, manager advisory, and portfolio transactions. You will interact, train and be assisted by AI agents who will help you be more efficient, specifically through pattern recognition across voluminous documents. You will continue to enjoy the usual aspects of tax law practice in terms of technical accuracy, research and exercising and developing judgment on tax issues.

What You'll Do

• Document Drafting & Review: Leverage AI agents to do an initial pass of reviewing fund formation documents such as LPAs, subscription agreements and side letters.
• Due Diligence: Use AI tools to conduct rapid document reviews, identify key terms and tax provisions.
• Fund Structuring & Execution: Integrate AI agents into workflow management across the full fund lifecycle to the extent feasible.
• Collaboration with Tech: Work closely with the technology teams to continue to make the fund tax practice even more efficient using AI.
• Traditional Tax Structuring, Research and Advisory: You will continue to do the tax structuring, relevant research and advisory that you would do in a law firm, with the level of technical accuracy and excellence expected at any BigLaw firm.

What We're Looking For

Core Qualifications

• Juris Doctor (JD); active bar admission in New York.
• 3–6 years of tax experience at a top law firm, with meaningful exposure to private investment funds (private equity, venture, credit and/or hedge).
• Strong technical foundation in Subchapters K and C; familiarity with UBTI, ECI, and fund structuring for diverse investor bases. Knowledge of Subchapter S and real estate tax planning a plus.
• High Interest in building AI-assisted workflows.
• High Interest in building a new law firm model, a great “roll-up the sleeves” attitude, agility in performing simple tasks to doing the hard core research on tough tax issues and not expecting AI to replace a lawyer’s judgment.
• High comfort with ambiguity, a necessary attribute when helping build a truly new law firm model powered by revolutionary technology

What success looks like

• 30 Days: Learn firm AI platforms and tech teams supporting such platforms; Integrate with existing tax team and fund working groups on live deals; Assist in maintaining tax intake risk management for the firm.
• 60 Days: Master work flow integration with existing tax team and funds group. Independently manage discrete components of live matters.
• 90 Days: Take the lead in interfacing with tech teams to help improve AI-augmented workstreams for firm models and eventually, live workstreams.

Compensation and Benefits

Base Salary: $270,000 to $385,000 per year

The range displayed in this job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salary for this position. Within the range, individual pay is determined by various factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

Benefits: 401(k) with employer match, health, dental, vision coverage, unlimited paid time off, free lunch in office daily, employee referral bonus program

Work Location

Location: New York City

Work model: Hybrid

In-office expectation: 4-5 days per week

To learn more about Norm, visit our website.