Remote USA – WA Strategic Alliance Manager
Avalara is looking for an experienced Strategic Alliance Manager (SAM) to work remotely. The SAM will focus on acquiring new Named Leads from Strategic and Referral Partners by creating and executing partner business plans to drive new sales. Our channel is a referral partner network not a distribution channel meaning that we engage in the sales process and close deals for our partners. The Strategic Alliance Manager is responsible for Account Management - driving highly qualified opportunities, closed deals and revenue through their assigned territory or named partners. Traits:· Experience building and monetizing relationships
· Executive presence
· Sales capable - you can do a demo of software and close a deal if needed
· Able to manage conflict well
· Work ethic to build value and urgency with partners
· Work with a sense of purpose and responsiveness
· Ability to simplify complex concepts and make them relatable to salespeople
· Adaptable to changes in the market and in how business is conducted
Job Duties:· Establish and manage relationships with existing channel partners in order to create new opportunities for these partners and Avalara
· Establish and maintain executive, sales and marketing relationships
· Recruit new channel partners
· Collaborate with the Avalara Sales Executives on closing new business
· Provide product and program training for Channel Partners & clients through webinars and demonstrations of our product offerings
· Attend and work trade shows and partner events including booths and public speaking
· Travel to various Channel Partner offices for meetings, events and trainings
· Domestic travel: approx. 50%
Qualifications:· Bachelor's degree in business or a related field, with a background in sales and marketing or account management if not specifically in channel and partner development
· Excellent oral and written communication skills
· Excellent time management and interpersonal skills
· Strong relationship/team building and account management skills
· Leadership qualities that reflect a self-motivated individual with the ability to work as part of a team
Experience:· 5+ years high-tech industry experience selling directly to end customers and/or channel development or strategic alliance experience
· Software sales experience, including ERP, Accounting, CRM, and Software-as-a-Service/Cloud Computing business applications
· Marketing experience is not required, but preferred

Avalara is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, age, gender, national orientation, disability, sexual orientation, US Veteran status, or any other factor protected by law.

Avalara, Inc., (www.Avalara.com), is the leading provider of cloud-based software that delivers a broad array of compliance solutions related to sales tax and other transactional taxes.

What is it like to work at Avalara? Come find out!  We are committed to the following success traits that embody our culture and how we work together to accomplish great things:  Fun. Passion. Adaptability. Urgency. Simplicity. Curiosity. Humility. Ownership. Optimism.

We are building cloud-based tax compliance solutions to handle every transaction in the world. Imagine every transaction you make - every tank of gas, cup of coffee, or pair of sneakers, every movie ticket, or streamed song, every sensor-to-sensor ping. Nearly every time you make a purchase, physical or digital, there is an accompanying unique and nuanced tax compliance calculation.

Responsibilities:

• Manage complex technical projects, tracking deadlines, deliverables, resources, and timelines.

• Drive implementation of technical solutions and ensure resources efforts are seamlessly integrated in the project plans.

• Adapt plans based on evolving needs, conditions or issues that may arise and ensure on-time, high-quality delivery aligned with the stated project goals.

• Manage multiple concurrent projects, each with varying priority, timelines and resource requirements.

• Inform project teams and senior leaders where resources are currently being placed and adjust workflows and identify resourcing gaps accordingly.

• Partner with Engineering and other teams to ensure documentation, supporting materials and project plans are updated and readily available for internal teams, senior leaders as well as external partners/stakeholders.

• Own and maintain information security's project portfolio, communicating project status, scope, schedules, risks, dependencies and blockers, etc.

• Facilitate all retrospective reviews of projects completed, particularly when projects didn't go according to schedule.

• Build strong relationships and maintain regular communication with assigned customer contacts to understand and manage performance/service expectations.

Qualifications:

• At least 4 years as a program manager at an organization with at least 1000 employees.

• Highly proficient with business applications such as JIRA, GSuite, Microsoft Excel/Word/PPT, other applicable project tracking and reporting applications.

• Familiarity with security fundamentals (confidentiality, integrity, availability) and core IT infrastructure.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 8 years of related experience as a program manager.

• Bachelor's degree, or equivalent experience.

• Professional experience as a program manager within an Information Security group or SaaS business.

• Exposure to vulnerability management, including timely mitigation of web application and host based issues.

• Familiarity of audit or regulatory frameworks such as SSAE18 SOC 1 or SOC 2, ISO 27001, Cloud Security Alliance, etc.

About Avalara

Avalara helps businesses of all sizes achieve compliance with transactional taxes, including VAT, sales and use, excise, communications, and other tax types. We deliver comprehensive, automated, cloud-based solutions that are fast, accurate, and easy to use.

Avalara offers over a thousand pre-built connectors into leading accounting, ERP, ecommerce and other business applications. Each year, the company processes billions of tax transactions for customers and users, files hundreds of thousands of tax compliance documents and tax returns and manages millions of exemption certificates and other compliance related documents.

Avalara’s headquarters are in Seattle, WA and it has offices across the U.S. and in Brighton and London, England; Brussels, Belgium; and Pune, India. More information at: www.avalara.com

Our diverse and inclusive culture drives Avalara's innovation and growth. We actively seek candidates from diverse backgrounds, locations, and cultures. Our Employee Resource Groups (ERG) help us build culture and drive equity for all by removing systemic biases. ERGs help Avalara understand the cultural differences and needs of such under-represented groups.

Avalara is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, age, gender, national orientation, disability, sexual orientation, US Veteran status, or any other factor protected by law.

Avalara is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, age, gender, national orientation, disability, sexual orientation, US Veteran status, or any other factor protected by law.

Avalara, Inc., (www.Avalara.com), is the leading provider of cloud-based software that delivers a broad array of compliance solutions related to sales tax and other transactional taxes.

What is it like to work at Avalara? Come find out! We are committed to the following success traits that embody our culture and how we work together to accomplish great things: Fun. Passion. Adaptability. Urgency. Simplicity. Curiosity. Humility. Ownership. Optimism.

We are building cloud-based tax compliance solutions to handle every transaction in the world. Imagine every transaction you make - every tank of gas, cup of coffee, or pair of sneakers, every movie ticket, or streamed song, every sensor-to-sensor ping. Nearly every time you make a purchase, physical or digital, there is an accompanying unique and nuanced tax compliance calculation.

We are seeking a highly motivated, experienced Systems Engineer to join our team.

Position Summary:

The Systems Engineer position is focused on integrating and implementing complex technical solutions for Avalara's global IT infrastructure. This position requires a wide technical breadth to handle issues across our technology portfolio ranging from automating acquisition integration activities, infrastructure, virtualization, networking, and security. You will be partnering with the information security team to design and deploy advanced security tools and solutions. You must be a self-starter who is comfortable with ambiguity and who can deliver results in a fast-paced environment.

Systems Engineer Responsibilities:

• Act as a point of escalation and technical advisor for integration activities

• Partnering with security team to design and deploy security tools, solutions and technology across the technology portfolio

• Discover IT infrastructure environment for newly acquired companies across multiple locations

• Responsible for planning and execution of integration plans

• Engaging with SMEs within Avalara to assist with integrating newly acquired companies

• Communicating with leadership on status of integration activities

• Use configuration management tools to deploy changes at scale

• Provide initial support to newly acquired organizations

Systems Engineer Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology or related field

• 5+ years experience as a Systems Engineer, DevOps Engineer, or similar role

• Three or more years of direct customer interaction with demonstrated ability to effectively convey complex or technical information to non-technical end users.

• Expert knowledge of 3 or more items from each category listed in the “Technologies” section below

Technologies:

• Core Infrastructure - Windows Server, Linux, Advanced Active directory, DNS, DHCP, DFS, Performance tuning, Backup and DR

• Virtualization - VMware, VMware Horizon VDI, Nutanix, AWS EC2

• Networking - Cisco CCNA equivalent, VPN, Cloud networking, virtual networking

• Security - AWS Security, Firewalls, Vulnerability management and remediation, Email security products

• Enterprise Application - Okta, O365, SQL, Atlassian applications, Configuration management tools, Gsuite, ITSM tools

• Monitoring - PRTG, Opsgenie, Sumologic

Preferred:

• AWS, Azure, GCP, Security certifications

About Avalara

Avalara helps businesses of all sizes achieve compliance with transactional taxes, including VAT, sales and use, excise, communications, and other tax types. We deliver comprehensive, automated, cloud-based solutions that are fast, accurate, and easy to use.

Avalara offers hundreds of pre-built connectors into leading accounting, ERP, ecommerce and other business applications. Each year, the company processes billions of tax transactions for customers and users, files hundreds of thousands of tax compliance documents and tax returns and manages millions of exemption certificates and other compliance related documents.

Avalara's headquarters are in Seattle, WA and it has offices across the U.S. and in Brighton and London, England; Brussels, Belgium; and Pune, India. More information at: www.avalara.com

Avalara is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, age, gender, national orientation, disability, sexual orientation, US Veteran status, or any other factor protected by law.

Avalara is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, age, gender, national orientation, disability, sexual orientation, US Veteran status, or any other factor protected by law.

Avalara is seeking an experienced Senior Project Consultant familiar with Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), retail, and e-commerce solutions to join our growing Professional Services Consulting team as a Project Manager in one of our corporate offices.  The Senior Project Consultant takes the lead for the launch of client Avalara AvaTax software projects.  The Senior Project Consultant proactively and professionally manages the client relationship and helps guide the client through their tax and compliance automation initiatives.  This is an excellent opportunity for the right candidate to join an exceptional group of professionals dedicated to exceeding customer expectations in the management of complex projects and delivery of effective sales and use tax automation services.


Job Duties:

• Support complex customer implementations involving multiple Avalara products including challenging enterprise level ERP, API, POS, and ecommerce platform solutions
• Provide leadership and guidance to customers on best practices and use cases to support a variety of business needs
• Develop implementation approach, documentation, and training material to support the launch of new products with Avalara Product Management, Sales, and other Customer Success teams
• Clearly articulate and manage the scope of work for client-initiated projects related to software and data services
• Monitor client projects and solve problems to keep projects moving forward
• Drive practice improvements such as documenting business processes and proposing best practices for sales and use tax automation initiatives to streamline the customer onboarding experience
• Develop and document business requirements related to business processes, data transformation and reporting
• Assist clients with developing and executing testing plans and procedures
• Support the sales and account management teams in selling additional tax and professional services
• Available to travel as assigned, possibly twice a year
• Perform other tasks as assigned

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 8 years of work experience and a Bachelors Degree
• Strong ability to articulate process logic and technical architecture including building and delivery of functional/technical presentations
• Strong ability to understand and conceptualize accounting and tax processes and procedures
• Experience working with clients at all organizational levels with a high degree of professionalism and business acumen
• Experience with multiple ERP and e-commerce solutions with a focus on sales order/invoicing processes
• Excellent written and oral communication skills are required with a demonstrated ability to work with cross-functional teams
• Ability to support cross-functional internal initiatives across the sales, product management and engineering organizations
• Teamwork-oriented with a strong focus on customer satisfaction and business development
• Ability to think strategically, solve problems effectively and tenaciously follow-through to ensure client success
• Results-oriented with strong people and time management skills, highly organized, motivated and driven to succeed

Preferred Qualifications:

• Strong ability to understand and conceptualize accounting and tax processes and procedures.
• Experience working with clients at all organizational levels with a high degree of professionalism and business acumen
• Experience implementing Avalara products including AvaTax, CertCapture and Returns
• Experience with multiple ERP and e-commerce solutions with a focus on sales order/invoicing processes.
• PMP certification is a plus

About Avalara:

Avalara helps businesses of all sizes achieve compliance with transaction taxes, including sales and use, VAT, excise, communications, and other tax types.  The company delivers comprehensive, automated, cloud-based solutions designed to be fast, accurate, and easy to use. The Avalara Compliance Cloud® platform helps customers manage complicated and burdensome tax compliance obligations imposed by state, local, and other taxing authorities throughout the world.

Avalara offers more than 600 pre-built connectors into leading accounting, ERP, ecommerce and other business applications, making the integration of tax and compliance solutions easy for customers.  Each year, the company processes billions of indirect tax transactions for customers and users, files more than a million tax returns, and manages millions of tax exemption certificates and other compliance documents.

Headquartered in Seattle, Avalara has offices across the U.S. and overseas in the U.K., Belgium, Brazil, and India. More information at www.avalara.com.  Avalara is an Equal Opportunity Employer.  All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, age, gender, national orientation, disability, sexual orientation, US Veteran status, or any other factor protected by law.

Avalara is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, age, gender, national orientation, disability, sexual orientation, US Veteran status, or any other factor protected by law.

We’re looking for a creative, driven marketing manager to join our Partner Marketing team. Our mission is to create an exceptional Avalara experience for partners, supporting them with the right engagement and marketing resources as they start, run, and scale their business with us.

The Senior Marketing Manager will be tasked with designing and executing marketing and communication initiatives to and about our partners.  This role will work at both a strategic level (setting the vision) and a tactical level (developing, managing, and launching key initiatives and programs).  This role will be an integral part of our partner experience team, elevating Avalara’s partnerships to the next level.  

What you’ll do:

• Primary responsibilities will include:
• Developing partner value prop & messaging framework
• Establishing a partner communications governance framework
• Expanding our partners' digital presence on Avalara.com
• Designing & launching the partner experience components of the new partner portal
• Developing and delivering partner enablement resources
• Identifying and supporting ad-hoc partner programs and opportunities

Who you’ll work with:

• Collaborating with the extended partner marketing team and partner marketing operations
• Partnering with our brand, content, digital, and events teams, you will elevate our partners’ value and innovate in how we effectively communicate with our growing partner community

Who you are:

• Bachelor’s degree in marketing or related field, MBA preferred
• 8+ years of relevant marketing and communications experience in a high growth SaaS or technology company
• Startup mentality with a bias for action
• Executive presence with strong presentation and communication skills
• Superb organization and project management skills with exceptional attention to detail
• Growth mindset with a desire to learn, a tendency to embrace challenges, see failures as essential to mastery, and find lessons and inspiration in the success of others.

About Avalara 

We’re building cloud-based tax compliance solutions to handle every transaction in the world. Imagine every transaction you make — every tank of gas, cup of coffee, or pair of sneakers, every movie ticket, meal kit, or streamed song, every sensor-to sensor ping. Nearly every time you make a purchase, physical or digital, there’s an accompanying unique and nuanced tax compliance calculation. The logic behind calculating taxes — the rules, rates, and boundaries is a global, layered, three dimensional mess of complexity, with compliance dictated by governments and applied by every business, every day. Avalara works with businesses of all sizes, all over the world — from corner stores to gigantic global retailers — to calculate tax accurately and automatically, at speeds measured in milliseconds. That’s a massive technical challenge, in terms of scale, reliability, and complexity, and we do it better than anyone. That’s why we’re growing fast. Headquartered in Seattle, Avalara has offices across the U.S. and around the world, in Brazil, Canada, India, U.K, Belgium and across Europe.

Equal Opportunities: Avalara is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, age, gender, national orientation, disability, sexual orientation, US Veteran status, or any other factor protected by law.

Avalara is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, age, gender, national orientation, disability, sexual orientation, US Veteran status, or any other factor protected by law.

Avalara, Inc. is seeking a business attorney, supporting Avalara's fast-growing global SaaS business. The Avalara legal department is a client-focused group with a strong emphasis on providing exceptional legal advice and advancing the Company's business goals, including considering the need for processes to allow rapid scale. This growing team values collaboration and high-quality work product, and is dedicated to the professional development of its members.

This attorney will negotiate and draft general business and commercial agreements (such as SaaS and licensing agreements, vendor agreements, and other technology services agreements), resolve issues that arise in existing commercial relationships, address regulatory issues, provide day-to-day legal advice on legal matters that arise, especially related to sales, marketing, and data privacy and security. The successful candidate for this position must have experience and enjoy negotiating a variety of SaaS, licensing, and other commercial contracts. We are looking for the following attributes:

We are looking for someone who is or has:

• Enthusiastic, hard working, and self-starting.
• Intellectual curiosity
• Willing to take on significant responsibilities, and own projects.
• Strong team player who enjoys working with and supporting the business owners, and the other attorneys.
• Able to work and solve problems independently.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Self-aware, and willing to seek help when needed.
• Depth and breadth of experience or abilities to work in multiple legal disciplines to address the various needs of clients.
• Strong analytical skills.
• Excellent organizational skills.
• Ability to manage multiple projects at once.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of relevant legal experience is required.
• Public company reporting experience helpful, but not required.
• Admission to the Washington or North Carolina bar is required.

About Avalara

Avalara helps businesses of all sizes achieve compliance with transactional taxes, including VAT, sales and use, excise, communications, and other tax types. We deliver comprehensive, automated, cloud-based solutions that are designed to be fast, accurate, and easy to use. Avalara's Compliance Cloud™ platform helps customers manage complicated and burdensome tax compliance obligations imposed by state, local, and other taxing authorities throughout the world.

Avalara offers hundreds of pre-built connectors into leading accounting, ERP, ecommerce and other business applications. Each year, the company processes billions of tax transactions for customers and users, files hundreds of thousands of tax compliance documents and tax returns, and manages millions of exemption certificates and other compliance related documents.

A privately held company, Avalara' s venture capital investors include Sageview Capital, Battery Ventures, Warburg Pincus, Technology Crossover Ventures, Arthur Ventures, and other institutional and individual investors. Avalara's headquarters are in Seattle, WA and it has offices across the U.S. and in Brighton, UK, Brussels, Belgium; Brazil, and Pune, India. More information at: www.avalara.com.

Avalara is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, age, gender, national orientation, disability, sexual orientation, US Veteran status, or any other factor protected by law.

Director of Product Marketing

Want to join a dynamic, rapidly growing SaaS company that's disrupting a multi-billion-dollar industry? Avalara is a leading provider of cloud-based tax compliance solutions. We deliver solutions for global transaction taxes, including sales and use, VAT, GST, excise, communications, lodging, and other indirect tax types, that are designed to help businesses achieve and maintain compliance. Our vision is to be the global cloud compliance platform.

The Product Marketing team at Avalara is the driving force behind getting products to market and ensuring their ongoing success. We do this by gathering market insights, channeling the voice of the customer, understanding the buyer and the buying process, crafting reusable positioning, messaging, and competitive differentiation statements, and enabling sales and marketing to create demand and close deals.

We are looking for an experienced, passionate product marketing leader for Avalara's core applications, which includes tax calculations, returns & reporting, compliance documents, and e-invoicing. As Director of Product Marketing, you will lead a team of Product Marketers and be expected to think and act both strategically and tactically from the creation of marketing strategy and product/solution positioning to the brass tacks of execution on messaging and measurement. You must be comfortable with ambiguity in a fast-paced and ever-changing environment, and able to think big while paying careful attention to detail. This is a highly visible position that will interact at all levels of the company. You must have the ability to quickly formulate strategies and plans that are backed by data and execute across many work functions simultaneously.

In this role, you will work closely with product management, sales, marketing, and business development to create go-to-market strategies that move the needle. You will develop and maintain detailed knowledge of all related products and services, working cross-functionally to develop a comprehensive go-to-market strategy and communicate details about our unique value in the tax compliance market.

Job Responsibilities

• Lead and grow the core applications product marketing team: You will inspire and motivate teams to accomplish big tasks, and consistently reinforce strong product marketing fundamentals within your team. In parallel, you will continuously develop high potential talent within the team and promote hiring best practices that optimize for diversity.

• Positioning, messaging, and thought leadership: You will own developing and iterating crisp and memorable positioning and messaging that brings clarity to customers. You have unreasonably high standards for differentiated, compelling storytelling, and are obsessed with measuring the impact of the content your team creates.

• Product launches: You will work with product management to bring new products to market internally through sales and field enablement as well as externally through online, events, community, and influencer channels.

• Product marketing plan: You will build and execute marketing plans to achieve product revenue goals.

• Trusted advisor: You will become the trusted advisor and partner to product management.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business, marketing, technical, relevant field of study, or equivalent experience.

• 15+ years of experience in product management, marketing, communications, or business management.

• Experience building and scaling a global and high-performance team.

Preferred Qualifications

• MBA preferred

• Experience in a high-growth business-to-business technology company

• Experience working in a fast-paced and highly cross-functional organization.

• Proven success managing time and juggling multiple projects in a high-growth environment where priorities shift fast.

• Analytical tendencies with a natural curiosity to measure, test, learn and iterate to get the best results possible

• Excellent written and oral communications skills with an innate attention to detail

Avalara is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, age, gender, national orientation, disability, sexual orientation, US Veteran status, or any other factor protected by law.

Want to join a dynamic, rapidly growing SaaS company that's disrupting a multi-billion dollar industry? That's what we're doing here at Avalara. We are seeking a Director, Strategic Enterprise Partners responsible for our global partnerships.

The Director, Strategic Enterprise Partners is responsible for setting and leading our global strategy across our enterprise partnerships. This position will be responsible for driving the strategy and execution of programs to meet and exceed our revenue objectives, customer and partners success targets and overall partner profitability. This is a high impact role requiring collaboration across multiple functions in Avalara including Sales, Customer Loyalty, Marketing, Product and Business Development as well as with our International teams.

This is a senior role that is responsible for our overall strategy that plays an integral role in the success of the company.

Some of the things you'll be doing include …

• Develop and execute a comprehensive, multi-year go-to-market strategy across partner ecosystems. Lead regular executive reviews to align cross-functional support and update progress to goals.
• Develop, foster and extend a network of “executive relationships” at key partners.
• Architect and execute a rolling 12-month joint product development plan with key partners to keep the ecosystem aligned with Avalara innovations and changes.
• Build data driven business case justification to drive cross functional decisions on products, programs, and business terms to drive ARR growth of your ecosystems. Include trade-off analysis that applies to individual functional teams or across the organization.
• Analyze data and derive meaning, find trends and develop plans to address opportunities and corrections. Report on the progress and impact of the plans.
• Collaborate with functional groups to address customer success and partner success issues. Identify root causes and engage the appropriate partner groups to create joint plans to correct and improve key metrics.

Qualifications:

• MBA or related advanced degree preferred.
• 15 years of experience in strategy consulting and/or go-to-market business development.
• 10+ years of experience managing Strategic Partnerships with ERP publishers, ISVs, systems integrators or consulting firms in the Oracle, Workday, SAP, Salesforce, NetSuite, or Microsoft ecosystems
• Proven ability to build, lead and execute strategy in a cross-functional environment.
• Demonstrated analytical, organizational, and project management skills, using relevant information to make timely and critical decisions that affect cross-functional teams and have substantial impact on investments and program effectiveness.
• Experience with building, developing and growing strategic Partnerships that deliver long term revenue growth and customer/partner satisfaction.
• Experience with technical product management and roadmapping.
• Experience with enterprise class ERP or financial software, ISV solutions, global organizations, or extended enterprise ecosystems.
• Strong tolerance for ambiguity; able to focus and execute in a changing environment; ability to make things happen.
• Technically Savvy. Experience with analytics, data, databases, predictive modeling, or business intelligence preferred.
• Experience managing global client partnerships and/or key strategic partner relationships involving robust strategic account planning and a cadence to drive successful execution.
• Demonstrable proof of producing measurable results of influenced revenue or channel sales through global strategic system integrators
• Diligent at measuring and communicating progress to achieve targeted business results, identifying obstacles and associated remediation plans
• Demonstrable proof of scaling capacity of global strategic partners' technology practices
• Ability to build and maintain positive working relationships while delivering results in a highly complex, matrixed global organization.
• Executive presence to lead and manage the most strategic global partners.
• Strong executive selling and business development skills; proven ability to understand different partner GTM and Organizational models.
• Willingness to travel and Experienced in Global markets, customs and individual country business protocols and dynamics

Avalara is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, age, gender, national orientation, disability, sexual orientation, US Veteran status, or any other factor protected by law.

As aDirectorof Engineeringfor Avalara’s Shared Services organization, you will lead teamsof seasoned engineers responsible for thedelivery,availability,and architecture of Avalara’score technologyplatformwith a focus in the Identity and Access Management domain. You will be a thought leader in this space buildingopportunityto meet the needs of massive growth andarapidly evolving business environment. 

Avalara is the worldwide leader in sales and use tax calculation. The work we do is fundamental to electroniccommerce and revolutionizing fundamental business processes. It's what we're doing every day, bringing technology to bear on the arcane process of sales tax calculation, reporting and remitting.  Our work improves the lives of our customers by making tedious business processes they must participate in simple and easy. 

Specific Objectives and Responsibilities 

The successful candidate should haveexperience leading teams running mission critical services at scale in a SaaS environment,robust client-server development experience, a proven ability to learn new approaches in emerging technologies, a high degree of intellectual curiosity, experience with multiple software development methodologies, excellent problem-solving skills, and strong communication and interpersonal skills.  

The primary responsibilities of this role include: 

• Provide people, process, and hands-on technical leadership to multiple shared services engineering teams in the Identity and Access domain 

• Remain at the forefront of industrybest practicesand experience withdesign, development, implementation, integration and support of Identity Access Management systemsand services includingprovisioning, multi-factor authentication (MFA), Single Sign-On (SSO), access management, SAML & OAuth 
• Be a champion of development best practices for the teams: design, architecture, performance,delivery,and quality 
• Ensure that product architecture and technology decisions support business area strategies and future direction of product lines 
• Mentor, motivate, and leadengineering teamsto support a vibrant,inclusive,and productive engineering culture 
• Actively engagein supporting Agile processesand Avalara’s SDLC 

• Thrive on learning new technologies, don’t believe in one-size-fits-all solutions,and adapt easily to meet the needs of massive growth andarapidly evolving business environment 

Qualifications 

• Bachelorsor higher degreein computer science orequivalentfield 
• 10+yearsofexperienceworking in software engineering withat least5+yearsof experience in a management/leadershiprole 
• Experience leading high-performance engineering teams working on large-scale mission criticalsoftware services 
• Experience working withIdentity Access Management systems and services including provisioning, multi-factor authentication (MFA), Single Sign-On (SSO), access management, SAML & OAuth 
• Development experience in multiple programming languages with a preference in C# 
• Deployment automation experience 

• Familiar with containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, ECS) 
• Familiar with SQL and NoSQL database technologies (SQL Server, Postgres, MySQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB) 
• Cloud experience (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) 
• Motivated to explore new opportunities in leading edge technologies 
• Highly detail oriented and well organized 

• Strong analytical andproblem-solvingskills 

About Avalara: 

We're building cloud-based tax compliance solutions to handle every transaction in the world. Imagine every transaction you make — every tank of gas, cup of coffee, or pair of sneakers, every movie ticket, meal kit, or streamed song, every sensor-to-sensor ping. Nearly every time you make a purchase, physical or digital, there's an accompanying unique and nuanced tax compliance calculation. 

The logic behind calculating taxes — the rules, rates, and boundaries — is a global, layered, three-dimensional mess of complexity, with compliance dictated by governments and applied by every business, every day. 

Avalara works with businesses of all sizes, all over the world — from corner stores to gigantic global retailers — to calculate tax accurately and automatically, at speeds measured in milliseconds. That's a massive technical challenge, in terms of scale, reliability, and complexity, and we do it better than anyone. 

That's why we're growing fast. Headquartered in Seattle, Avalara has offices across the U.S. and around the world, in Belgium, Brazil, Canada, India, and the U.K. 

Equal Opportunities: 

Avalara is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, age, gender, national orientation, disability, sexual orientation, US Veteran status, or any other factor protected by law. 

Avalara is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, age, gender, national orientation, disability, sexual orientation, US Veteran status, or any other factor protected by law.

Avalara has an exciting opening for a Salesforce Developer to support our internal customers, our partners and our e-commerce customers by providing salesforce.com development capabilities as a team member of our US based Avalara Corporate Technology group. The team's vision is to deliver strategic Customer and Partner engagement platforms that offer a coherent end-to-end proposition that drives extraordinary experience and commercial performance.

This role will be responsible for customizing, developing, and supporting solutions on the force.com platform in support of Service cloud, customer communities, portals, ecommerce platforms and a variety of other integrated SAAS or internal business operations technologies.

Job Duties

• Participate in all phases of software development lifecycle including functional analysis development of technical requirements, prototyping, coding, testing, deployment, and support of salesforce.com related initiatives
• Develop high quality and scalable applications with Visualforce, Apex and other Force.com technologiesAssist with platform administration responsibilities which includes custom object development, , flows, triggers, the Force.com IDE, migration tools, SOQL and web services areas
• Integrate salesforce.com with other systems
• Optimize core service cloud functions such as email-to-case, web-to-case, chat and assignment rules
• Ensure seamless functioning between a logged-in customer experience via experience cloud sites and the service cloud
• Develop Platform events to handle various integrations
• Adhere to development best practices in utilizing Custom Metadata for complex business logic and Dynamic Apex for the purpose of building flexible applicationsRefactor Flows and Apex code to avoid SF governor limits, using bulkification, wait elements and future methods to reduce CPU timeout limits, row lock errors, etc.
• Must be able to explain and rationalize why one would use Flow over Apex or vise versa

Qualifications (absolute must haves walking in the door)

• 5+ years of Force.com experience in designing and developing Visualforce/Apex solutions
• 5+ Years of experience with force.com based commercial ecommerce business applications
• 5+ years of experience with Salesforce.com Web Services APIs - Force.com SOAP and REST-based Web Service APIs, the Bulk API, and the Metadata API
• 3+ years of experience with Service Cloud
• 1+ year with Community Cloud
• Experience building complex integrated applications
• Experience designing and building interactive web-based applications
• Salesforce.com Developer certification
• In-depth knowledge of the order of execution during transactions and various automation options including before and after-save triggers
• Familiarity with web/database application development technologies like SQL, JavaScript, AJAX, JSON, HTML5 and CSS is preferred
• Proficiency in developing in Force.com Visual Force pages, Managed Packages, and integration to other third-party solutions
• Experience integrating Salesforce with 3rd-party system using web services and app exchange apps
• Knowledge of Force.com development best practices and design patterns

Preferred Qualifications (great to have but not absolutely necessary)

• In depth technical understanding of systems, databases, networking, and computing environments
• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
• Previous experience using GitLab and/or general understanding of CI/CD
• Experience with Salesforce DX and Visual Studio Code

Avalara is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, age, gender, national orientation, disability, sexual orientation, US Veteran status, or any other factor protected by law.

Product Marketing Manager, 1099 Products

Want to join a dynamic, rapidly growing SaaS company that's disrupting a multi-billion-dollar industry? That was named a “Top Companies to Work in Product Marketing” finalist in Product Marketing Alliance's 2021 awards? Avalara is a dynamic B2B SaaS company that provides cloud-based software for sales tax and other indirect taxes. We are pioneering technologies to make the complicated world of tax compliance easier for our customers.

The Product Marketing organization is responsible for defining product portfolio, customer segmentation, market sizing, buyer personas, buyer journeys, messaging and positioning, competitive analysis, win-loss interviews, customer evidence, and product launch activities. This team is accountable for all Avalara products across all geographies.

This Product Marketing role provides an opportunity to design and own the execution of a range of go-to-market, messaging, positioning, and marketing campaign initiatives across our 1099 product line.

The ideal candidate for this role thrives in a dynamic, fast-paced, and innovative environment and brings a breadth of hands-on experience to Product Marketing. In this role, you will be responsible for developing deep customer insights and translating those into hard-hitting messaging and positioning frameworks and marketing campaigns. You will be the go-to-market expert for your products. You will collaborate cross-functionally with Avalara GMs, Product Management, Partner Management, and Marketing to enable decision-making based on solid quantitative analysis and data-driven insights

Job Responsibilities

• Work closely with Product Management, Partner Management, Engineering, and Marketing to orchestrate launches of new products, features, and integrations into market
• Craft engaging messaging and positioning, videos, case studies, and other collateral for new and existing products
• Develop and execute digital marketing campaigns to drive awareness and deliver responses and leads to support sales goals
• Deeply understand the 1099 market and buyer personas to effectively communicate value propositions and differentiators
• Perform competitive and market research to prepare the company for addressing trends and competitive situations
• Participate in developing presentation content for industry or customer conferences

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent working experience
• 5+ years' experience in technology/SaaS industry in a product marketing or digital marketing role
• High adaptability, strong sense of ownership, and eager curiosity in navigating a rapidly changing environment
• Ability to collaborate inclusively and cross-functionally and work well with diverse perspectives and multiple stakeholders to drive company success
• Relentless focus on the buyer journey to understand customer needs and pain points
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, both verbal and written, to craft and articulate compelling product stories
• Data-driven mindset when making decisions and process-oriented approach to execution and measuring success
• Strong analytical abilities to conduct market research and develop insights from both quantitative and qualitative data
• Proven track record of quickly understanding new markets, industries, products, and customer audiences
• Ability to create tangible marketing deliverables as well as think creatively and strategically

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in marketing to accounts payable or finance teams
• Experience in Product Management or product development

Avalara is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, age, gender, national orientation, disability, sexual orientation, US Veteran status, or any other factor protected by law.

Job Summary:

Are you an energetic, insightful marketer who has a knack for driving lead generation programs? Do you constantly work with a sense of urgency, have a keen ability to adapt to change, and are as comfortable with analytics as you are with creative? Then we want to talk with you! Our marketing team is looking for a superb marketer to create and execute marketing programs to achieve lead generation goals and build the sales pipeline. If you're a marketing pro who is strong in messaging, sales enablement, is adaptable and engaging, and who is motivated to make things happen, you'll love joining this team of fun, talented, and interesting marketers!

Avalara is a marketers dream: we use a broad mix of strategies combined with a willingness to experiment, guided by metrics. You'll have access to use some of the most innovative, leading-edge technologies and tactics you'll find in B2B marketing.

Job Duties:

· Plan, execute and evaluate marketing programs leveraging a variety of channels in the marketing mix, including email, webinars, advertising and other programs focused on lead generation and building the sales pipeline.

· Create and manage integrated marketing campaigns. Develop tactics and content that support a defined marketing program.

· Deliver timely marketing plans that include success metrics and reports for defined marketing initiatives.

· Analyze and understand key market segments to develop compelling messaging and marketing offers, as well as provide insights into buyer needs and behavior.

· Work closely with sales teams on lead conversion, nurture strategies and drive pipeline progression.

· Work with content and web team to publish content to the Avalara.com website, newsletters, and other outlets as needed.

· Build extensive knowledge in defined product/solution areas and develop industry, product and competitive expertise.

Qualifications:

1. Account-based marketing knowledge and experience a huge plus.

2. Excellent grasp of B2B marketing, product marketing, and B2B selling concepts and the sales pipeline.

3. 8+ years B2B marketing experience with focus on SMB space

4. Experience in lodging industry is a plus

5. Bachelor's degree. Degree in business, marketing or communications preferred. MBA a plus.

6. Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with strong writing ability.

7. Experience with CRM automation tools (e.g. SalesForce.com), marketing automation platforms (e.g. Eloqua), and analytic tools (e.g. Tableau) a plus.

Avalara is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, age, gender, national orientation, disability, sexual orientation, US Veteran status, or any other factor protected by law.

Avalara is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, age, gender, national orientation, disability, sexual orientation, US Veteran status, or any other factor protected by law.

Avalara, Inc., (www.Avalara.com), is the leading provider of cloud-based software that delivers a broad array of compliance solutions related to sales tax and other transactional taxes.

What is it like to work at Avalara? Come find out!  We are committed to the following success traits that embody our culture and how we work together to accomplish great things:  Fun. Passion. Adaptability. Urgency. Simplicity. Curiosity. Humility. Ownership. Optimism.

We are building cloud-based tax compliance solutions to handle every transaction in the world. Imagine every transaction you make - every tank of gas, cup of coffee, or pair of sneakers, every movie ticket, or streamed song, every sensor-to-sensor ping. Nearly every time you make a purchase, physical or digital, there is an accompanying unique and nuanced tax compliance calculation.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate multiple teams and build great product by following the Agile Process
• Coach Scrum Masters to help build both next generation products and maintain the current product line
• Ability to understand the domain of large and complex software
• Perform agile project management on large and complex software
• Ensure proactive communication of project status to leadership through proper monitoring of Jira
• Actively facilitate Dependency Management across multiple Business units
• Proactively monitor and assess team health metrics and project needs
• Help teams to recognize and produce Agile artifacts
• Proactively monitor and assess team health and project needs
• Report on schedule, and resource allocation
• Manage release train

Requirements / Qualifications

• 5+ years of Agile experiences in Scrum and Kanban with highly technical projects
• 3+ years in mid to large enterprise software project management
• 10 years of total IT experience in software development, product
• management or Business Analysis
• 2+ years of implementing or working in SAFe framework
• Experience in Agile transformation
• Technical Understanding of Product development

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering
• Scrum Master Certification

Must have:

• Understand spirit of Agile
• Understand implementation details of Scrum & Kanban
• Understand large scale project management
• Understand release planning, coordination, and management
• Understand SAFe framework
• Proficient in Jira

Preferred:

• SAFe Certification
• Have worked with a multi-team data dependency lifecycle environment.

About Avalara

Avalara helps businesses of all sizes achieve compliance with transactional taxes, including VAT, sales and use, excise, communications, and other tax types. We deliver comprehensive, automated, cloud-based solutions that are fast, accurate, and easy to use.

Avalara offers hundreds of pre-built connectors into leading accounting, ERP, ecommerce and other business applications. Each year, the company processes billions of tax transactions for customers and users, files hundreds of thousands of tax compliance documents and tax returns and manages millions of exemption certificates and other compliance related documents.

Avalara’s headquarters are in Seattle, WA and it has offices across the U.S. and in Brighton and London, England; Brussels, Belgium; and Pune, India. More information at: www.avalara.com

Avalara is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, age, gender, national orientation, disability, sexual orientation, US Veteran status, or any other factor protected by law.

Avalara is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, age, gender, national orientation, disability, sexual orientation, US Veteran status, or any other factor protected by law.

Avalara, Inc., (www.Avalara.com), is the leading provider of cloud-based software that delivers a broad array of compliance solutions related to sales tax and other transactional taxes.

What is it like to work at Avalara? Come find out!  We are committed to the following success traits that embody our culture and how we work together to accomplish great things:  Fun. Passion. Adaptability. Urgency. Simplicity. Curiosity. Humility. Ownership. Optimism.

We are building cloud-based tax compliance solutions to handle every transaction in the world. Imagine every transaction you make - every tank of gas, cup of coffee, or pair of sneakers, every movie ticket, or streamed song, every sensor-to-sensor ping. Nearly every time you make a purchase, physical or digital, there is an accompanying unique and nuanced tax compliance calculation.

Avalara's world class IT team is looking for the next generation of stars to help us become part of every tax transaction in the world. The Avalara Global Technology team is looking for an experienced Scrum Leader to drive our teams to predictable delivery through agile process efficiency. We are seeking a highly motivated, experienced Agile Coach with experience in Agile Transformation to join our team. You will promote quality, efficiency and collaboration within our IT organization while influencing, growing and monitoring our team's delivery. If you're looking for a role with high influence and high agility, then this is where you need to be.

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate teams and build great solutions by following the Agile Process
• Serve as a Scrum Master to multiple teams to help build both next generation solutions and maintain the current systems
• Perform agile project management on large and complex software
• Ability to understand the domain of large and complex software development
• Ensure proactive communication of project status to leadership through proper monitoring of Jira
• Actively facilitate Dependency Management across multiple Business units
• Provide daily monitoring and coach and train teams to embrace the Agile way in both spirit and practice
• Help teams to recognize and produce Agile artifacts
• Proactively monitor and assess team health and project needs
• Report on schedule, and resource allocation
• Drive the quarterly planning commitment process and report out delivery against commitments

Requirements / Qualifications:

• 8+ years of Agile experiences in Scrum and Kanban with highly technical projects or 6 years with a Master's Degree
• 3+ years in mid to large enterprise software project management
• 10 years of total IT experience in software development, product
• management or Business Analysis
• 2+ years of implementing or working in SAFe framework
• Experience in Agile transformation
• Technical Understanding of Product development​

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering
• Scrum Master Certification

Must have:

• Understand spirit of Agile
• Understand implementation details of Scrum & Kanban
• Understand large scale project management
• Understand release planning, coordination, and management
• Understand SAFe framework​

Preferred:

• SAFe Certification
• Have worked with a multi-team data dependency lifecycle environment.​

About Avalara:

Avalara helps businesses of all sizes achieve compliance with transactional taxes, including VAT, sales and use, excise, communications, and other tax types. We deliver comprehensive, automated, cloud-based solutions that are fast, accurate, and easy to use.

Avalara offers hundreds of pre-built connectors into leading accounting, ERP, ecommerce and other business applications. Each year, the company processes billions of tax transactions for customers and users, files hundreds of thousands of tax compliance documents and tax returns and manages millions of exemption certificates and other compliance related documents.

Avalara's headquarters are in Seattle, WA and it has offices across the U.S. and in Brighton and London, England; Brussels, Belgium; and Pune, India. More information at: www.avalara.com

Avalara is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, age, gender, national orientation, disability, sexual orientation, US Veteran status, or any other factor protected by law.

Avalara is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, age, gender, national orientation, disability, sexual orientation, US Veteran status, or any other factor protected by law.

Avalara, Inc., (www.Avalara.com), is the leading provider of cloud-based software that delivers a broad array of compliance solutions related to sales tax and other transactional taxes.

What is it like to work at Avalara? Come find out!  We are committed to the following success traits that embody our culture and how we work together to accomplish great things:  Fun. Passion. Adaptability. Urgency. Simplicity. Curiosity. Humility. Ownership. Optimism.

We are building cloud-based tax compliance solutions to handle every transaction in the world. Imagine every transaction you make - every tank of gas, cup of coffee, or pair of sneakers, every movie ticket, or streamed song, every sensor-to-sensor ping. Nearly every time you make a purchase, physical or digital, there is an accompanying unique and nuanced tax compliance calculation.

Avalara's world class IT team is looking for the next generation of stars to help us become part of every tax transaction in the world. The Gainsight Administrator will create, analyze, and optimize playbooks utilizing Gainsight's industry-leading chat functions. They will be responsible for administering and maintaining specified multi-tier applications and services to include installation, configuration, monitoring, planning, deploying, troubleshooting, and issue resolution. This position will work closely with business and technology team members to identify opportunities to better engage and convert website visitors.

Responsibilities:

• Serves as a subject matter expert for the Gainsight platform
• Oversees the administration and ongoing maintenance of all aspects related to the Gainsight technology framework, including conversation design, administration of the natural language processor, reporting and continuous fine-tuning.
• Designs, implements, and maintains Gainsight business rules using the technology framework provided
• Develops and maintains Gainsight platform and custom applications
• Follows best practices and development guidelines and standards to protect platform performance and prevent Incidents
• Continually reviews the efficiency and effectiveness of the Gainsight platform and applications
• Maintains a current knowledge of Gainsight product offerings and other supporting technologies

Requirements / Qualifications:

• 3-5 years of system administration experience managing and deploying software and business updates
• Experience with Gainsight platform administration
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to multi-task and comfortable providing end user support and functional trainings

Education:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering

About Avalara:

Avalara helps businesses of all sizes achieve compliance with transactional taxes, including VAT, sales and use, excise, communications, and other tax types. We deliver comprehensive, automated, cloud-based solutions that are fast, accurate, and easy to use.

Avalara offers hundreds of pre-built connectors into leading accounting, ERP, ecommerce and other business applications. Each year, the company processes billions of tax transactions for customers and users, files hundreds of thousands of tax compliance documents and tax returns and manages millions of exemption certificates and other compliance related documents.

Avalara's headquarters are in Seattle, WA and it has offices across the U.S. and in Brighton and London, England; Brussels, Belgium; and Pune, India. More information at: www.avalara.com

Avalara is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, age, gender, national orientation, disability, sexual orientation, US Veteran status, or any other factor protected by law.

Avalara is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, age, gender, national orientation, disability, sexual orientation, US Veteran status, or any other factor protected by law.

Avalara, Inc., (www.Avalara.com), is the leading provider of cloud-based software that delivers a broad array of compliance solutions related to sales tax and other transactional taxes.

What is it like to work at Avalara? Come find out! We are committed to the following success traits that embody our culture and how we work together to accomplish great things: Fun. Passion. Adaptability. Urgency. Simplicity. Curiosity. Humility. Ownership. Optimism.

We are building cloud-based tax compliance solutions to handle every transaction in the world. Imagine every transaction you make - every tank of gas, cup of coffee, or pair of sneakers, every movie ticket, or streamed song, every sensor-to-sensor ping. Nearly every time you make a purchase, physical or digital, there is an accompanying unique and nuanced tax compliance calculation.

Job Summary:

The Content, Data & Insights (CD&I) business is part of the Avalara Strategic Initiatives Group (SIG) and is seeking an experienced, initiative-taking, and client-driven professional to help accelerate the growth of the CD&I Point-of-Sale (POS) and Content Delivery business. This business focuses on providing tax content relevant for finance/tax professionals and/or systems. This includes, but is not limited to, physical locations (stores, kiosks, etc.), ERP systems, and Tax Professionals.

As aManager, Data Transformation for the CD&I business, you will have the knowledge and experience of an ETL developer, and you will be responsible for launching and supporting a new service-type with the mission of assisting and performing data transformations for various systems and processes. You will gather requirements by collaborating with third-party partners and other source information, deep dive into multiple domain types, and define and/or perform a wide variety of data transformations. This includes leveraging current Avalara products and tools to perform needed tasks and working closely with our Business, Product, Engineer, and Partner Launch teams. This position will require an individual who is willing to “roll-up their sleeves” and, at the same time, build strategies in support of the CD&I business.

Essential duties of the Content Delivery Data Transformation role include:

Job Duties:

• Define, design, and configure data transformations for Avalara strategic content delivery initiatives
• Support third-party implementation and technical partners with Avalara domain knowledge and consultation
• Develop and maintain collaborative Avalara cross-functional relationships among the Product, Engineer, Partner Launch, and Professional Services teams
• Be the Subject Matter Expert connected to getting Avalara tax content delivered to our customers and partners based on their requirements
• Deep dive into strategic systems…learn, document, and advise on their tax data storage domains and functional capabilities for transaction tax calculation
• Work closely with Product Management to help inform and prioritize product direction based on you and our partners experiences
• In collaboration with Product Management and Partner Launch, assist with data transformation efforts for new or existing partners
• Provide Product management with information needed to create new service offerings for content delivery
• Communicate potential risks, delays, and status to stakeholders
• To actively research and maintain transformation for Content systems, using Partner and Vendor Relations to accomplish new Data modeling parameters.
• Demonstrated ability to utilize and create/develop effective tools to manage large Data Models and Transformations.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, or a related field
• Minimum of 5 years combined experience in data engineering and DevOps, and 3+ years in ETL development
• Demonstrated senior level understanding of data modeling and concepts
• Demonstrated ability to utilize and create/develop effective tools to manage large data models and transformations.
• Experience collaborating with partners and/or customers
• Advanced level of experience using MSFT Excel, Word, Access, Visio, and PowerPoint
• Exposure to SQL based querying, as well as other Database Methodologies (Oracle, NoSQL, and Mongo)
• Demonstrated ability to scrutinize a variety of sources (manuals, publications, etc.) to evaluate relevancy of information
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with both technical and nontechnical stakeholders
• Personify the Avalara Success Traits: Ownership, Passion, Adaptability, Humility, Fun, Optimism, Curiosity, Urgency, and Simplicity

Preferred Qualifications:

• Has performed transformations for the delivery of tax content to leading vendor POS platforms including Oracle Retail Xstore, NCR Emerald, Silver, Etc., Aptos Aptos SA, Toshiba ACE, MSFT Dynamics 365, or others

Travel:<25%

About Avalara

Avalara helps businesses of all sizes achieve compliance with transactional taxes, including VAT, sales and use, excise, communications, and other tax types. We deliver comprehensive, automated, cloud-based solutions that are fast, accurate, and easy to use.

Avalara offers hundreds of pre-built connectors into leading accounting, ERP, ecommerce, and other business applications. Each year, the company processes billions of tax transactions for customers and users, files hundreds of thousands of tax compliance documents and tax returns and manages millions of exemption certificates and other compliance related documents.

Avalara's headquarters are in Seattle, WA and it has offices across the U.S. and in Brighton and London, England; Brussels, Belgium; and Pune, India. More information at: www.avalara.com

Avalara is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, age, gender, national orientation, disability, sexual orientation, US Veteran status, or any other factor protected by law.

Avalara is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, age, gender, national orientation, disability, sexual orientation, US Veteran status, or any other factor protected by law.

Job Summary

The Professional Services organization within Avalara is primarily responsible for the successful implementation of our SaaS products with our customers. The Consultant is an integral element of the implementation team dealing with the analysis and validation of client data. You will be primarily responsible for the configuration of the environment and testing of client data; bringing a client from concept to validation.

Job Duties

• Configure the Avalara software according to specification as provided in the Blueprint documents
• Configure Master Data
• Test and validate software configurations
• Identify variances between tested and expected results over large data sets
• At times you may be looking for just one or two transactions in error over a data set of tens of thousands
• Research and tie variances back to data or configuration issues
• Maintain specific technical project documents to meet and support project progression and milestones:
• Testing Log
• Use Case Scenarios
• Product Acceptance Test Plans and Acceptance Criteria Documents
• Collaborate on a daily basis with a multi-faceted project team to support execution of project tasks.
• Participate in project status meetings and discussions with the project team(s)
• Gather and record daily project efforts within PMO technologies to support project status, customer billing, utilization goals, and project progression.
• Work under the direction of senior staff to resolve gaps found during testing

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in MIS or Business Admin with technical focus
• Excellent team working skills and collaborative mindset
• Potential exists for up to 25% travel
• Proficient with MS Office, specifically MS Excel
• Strong data analysis, quantitative, and analytical skills
• Strong contributor, directly involved in the hands-on work to achieve project deliverables
• Strong documentation and organizational skills
• Strong in time management skills, self-motivation, completing tasks within cost and hourly utilization constraints

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with tax, specifically excise tax a plus.
• Project Management experience or coursework a plus
• technical and/or project related internship experience
• Demonstrated strength in problem definition and resolution
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills; ability to communicate amongst a variety of personality and technical types
• Customer satisfaction driven
• Attentive to detail and well-organized
• An ability to work within some level of ambiguity without struggle
• Ability to handle multiple projects and multiple tasks simultaneously without impact to quality of results

Avalara is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, age, gender, national orientation, disability, sexual orientation, US Veteran status, or any other factor protected by law.

We are seeking a highly motivated, experienced Product Manager to join our Cross-Border team.

As a Cross-Border Product Manager, you will own and drive programs that position Avalara as the leading Cross-Border service provider. Specifically, you will focus on applying our Cross-Border capabilities to the International Parcel Shipping community. This includes Postal Operation, Couriers and Customs Brokers. Beyond delivering value through our HS Classification, Duty & Tax Calculation and Trade Restrictions management services, you will be charting new products and features around Financial Control tools to help customers who are shipping DDP internationally and have challenges around order profitability eroded through surprise accessorial charges.

You will work with a cross-functional and geographically dispersed team, document and track all product requirements, drive efficiencies through automation, quantify and measure key product metrics, and optimize customer value. You will have ownership for product success and be supported by a matrixed team.

What you'll bring to the role

• 5+ years overall professional career experience with a mix of startup and big company perspectives
• 3+ years experience as a SaaS Product Manager
• 3+ years experience in the international logistics industry working with fulfillment, shipping, cross-docking or customs brokerage operations
• A genuine passion for understanding cross-border business, strategy, and our clients' challenges to inspire new and improved ways of solving their problems
• Experience with agile development methodologies, the Product Owner role, and commonly used tools such as Jira, Confluence, etc.
• The capability of managing multiple, complex, cross-functional initiatives at once
• Advanced analytics skills, including variance analysis, revenue leakage discovery, and product profitability
• Regularly track key application metrics, identify and drive improvements
• A Team player able to drive results through influence and enthusiasm

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Courier Importation invoicing dynamics and challenges
• Experience with tax automation products, ERP, eCommerce platforms, and other financial systems
• Familiarity with accounting and transaction tax compliance concepts (i.e., sales tax returns)
• Analytical solid skillset with industry knowledge and ability to apply the innovation trends
• Experience with the operations dashboards implementation and data analytics
• Exceptional written and oral communication skills, with experience conducting small-group briefings and demos both internally and with customers

• Experience working with partners and 3rd party developers.
• Bachelor's Degree in a relevant field (accounting, business, management or computer science)

Avalara is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, age, gender, national orientation, disability, sexual orientation, US Veteran status, or any other factor protected by law.

The CertCapture software engineering team is responsible for the design, development and support of the CertCapture product lines.  The successful candidate will participate in the development of new features, become versed in the existing landscape of the product and work within a peer group environment to meet product deliverables and deadlines. This position requires the ability to convert product requirements into finished material, develop clear testable code, and work with Quality Assurance to ensure product reliability. 

Job Duties

• Ability to lead a Scrum team, assist in the development of key and senior level features and solutions.
• Drive and lead proof of concept projects to construct data driven proofs that specific design concepts and strategies work as expected.
• Be a prodigious author in the documentation of architectural decisions, design recommendations and research.
• Act as a mentor to other engineers and team members, share your skills and expertise, encourage creativity and innovation!
• Understand how software design and architecture impact the goals of the business.
• Analyze and attribute key operational requirements into cohesive design patterns.
• Help set a standard and set an example for high quality code review and analysis.
• Develop new implementations of data driven technology stacks.
• Implement best SaaS practices across the enterprise.
• Collaborate with team members on code reviews and test plans
• Work with product management and subject matter experts to ensure that each feature is useful for, and simple enough to be understood by, the target audience
• Design solid data models and make effective use of database technology
• Constantly seek out ways to do a better job and improve automation
• Should be available to work few hours in line with U.S/U.K. time zones as required.

Qualifications

• 4 years degree or higher in computer science or engineering is required
• 8+ years of experience in application development with technologies C# /.NET Core
• 5+ years of experience in a software development role shipping complex applications to large scale production environments
• Excellent skills in designing and developing REST APIs and services
• Strong experience and design of native Cloud applications Cloud application design patterns and practices hosted on both GCP and AWS
• Broad and extensive knowledge of the software development process and its technologies
• Knowledge of architectural styles and design patterns
• Working knowledge and experience of databases and other data persistence layers from low level implementation details on up.
• Understanding of various coding methods and computer languages
• Data modeling and database design experience
• Experience with software development lifecycle (SDLC) processes
• Experience implementing CI/CD
• Experience in automation scripting experience (Terraform, Packer, Jenkins)
• Experience with containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, ECS)

About Avalara
We're building cloud-based tax compliance solutions to handle every transaction in the world.

Imagine every transaction you make — every tank of gas, cup of coffee, or pair of sneakers, every movie ticket, meal kit, or streamed song, every sensor-to-sensor ping. Nearly every time you make a purchase, physical or digital, there's an accompanying unique and nuanced tax compliance calculation.

The logic behind calculating taxes — the rules, rates, and boundaries — is a global, layered, three-dimensional mess of complexity, with compliance dictated by governments and applied by every business, every day.

Avalara works with businesses of all sizes, all over the world — from corner stores to gigantic global retailers — to calculate tax accurately and automatically, at speeds measured in milliseconds.

That's a massive technical challenge, in terms of scale, reliability, and complexity, and we do it better than anyone. That's why we're growing fast.

Headquartered in Seattle, Avalara has offices across the U.S. and around the world, in Belgium, Brazil, Canada, India, and the U.K.

Avalara is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, age, gender, national orientation, disability, sexual orientation, US Veteran status, or any other factor protected by law.

Avalara is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, age, gender, national orientation, disability, sexual orientation, US Veteran status, or any other factor protected by law.

Avalara is looking for a Senior Financial Analyst to be a part of our Finance team to support the forecasting and annual budgeting process.

Core Responsibilities:

• Create and maintain complex financial models that may cover areas including bookings, revenue, expense, and headcount over both near-term and long-range periods.
• Support and improve the existing annual budgeting and monthly forecasting processes.
• Collaborate with Sales Leaders and Sales Operations to communicate results, monitor key metrics and highlight trends.
• Be able to understand how different components of a Sales Compensation plan can help deliver the right mix of bookings for the company and compensation to the sales team.
• Partner with senior finance leaders, including the CFO, with ad-hoc modeling and business analysis projects.

Qualifications

• 5-8 years of financial analysis experience
• Advanced Excel skills, including experience building detailed financial models
• Ability to work independently, prioritize assignments and meet deadlines
• Effective written and verbal communication skills, with a proven track record of partnering within and across functions to improve processes and drive results
• Basic understanding of GAAP accounting principles
• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting or Business

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with Workday Adaptive Planning, Salesforce.com, Tableau and/or PowerBI
• Public company finance experience
• Advanced degree and/or professional certification (MBA/CPA/CFA)

Avalara is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, age, gender, national orientation, disability, sexual orientation, US Veteran status, or any other factor protected by law.