GTM Strategy Manager

The GTM Strategy Manager develops and operationalizes go-to-market strategies that increase revenue, improve commercial performance, and scale repeatable sales and marketing motions across Avalara's segments and channels. You will focus on identifying growth opportunities, designing structured revenue plays, and partnering to execute and measure the impact.

You will work with Sales, Marketing, Product, Pricing, and Revenue Operations. Your goal will be to translate market insights and performance data into applicable projects. These initiatives should improve pipeline quality, win rates, attach rates, and expansion outcomes. We ask that you have analytical rigor, Experience researching and generating leads.

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Revenue Play Development & Activation

• Design and operationalize GTM plays across segments, industries, products, and channels
• Define the target segment, ICP criteria, value proposition, offer structure, sales motion, and performance metrics for each play
• Partner with Sales, Sales Development, Marketing, and Enablement to ensure plays are documented, field-ready, and measurable
• Track adoption and performance; iterate based on data and field feedback

Performance Analytics

• Establish Measurements and dashboards to measure funnel health, conversion rates, attach rates, expansion performance, and overall GTM effectiveness
• Conduct structured analysis to identify drivers of performance and recommend prioritized actions
• Present clear, data-backed recommendations to revenue and executive partners

GTM Understanding

• Partner with Product on commercialization planning to ensure new capabilities align with defined segments and plays
• Collaborate with Sales Development and Marketing on campaign targeting and messaging in consideration of priority plays
• Work with Revenue Operations to ensure systems, reporting, and process support execution
• Promote working sessions on priorities, trade-offs, and success metrics

AI-Enabled Strategy

• Use AI tools to accelerate market analysis, opportunity identification, and GTM strategy development.
• Apply AI to improve planning, content creation, performance analysis, across GTM programs.
• Evaluate and adopt new AI capabilities to improve team productivity and commercial execution.

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Marketing, Finance, Economics, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Experience

• 5–8 years of experience in GTM Strategy, Revenue Operations, Management Consulting, Sales, Partner Development, Marketing, or a related commercial role within a B2B SaaS or technology company.
• 3+ years of experience leading projects that guide measurable outcomes.
• Experience using data and market insights to develop recommendations and influence decisions.

Knowledge and Abilities

• Experience with B2B SaaS go-to-market models, commercial planning, and revenue growth strategies.
• Experience establishing communication and engagement with prospects.
• Align partners without direct authority.
• Project management skills Experience balancing multiple sales opportunities simultaneously.
• Proficiency using AI to accelerate research, content development.
• Stay up to date with industry trends with a Willingness to participate in professional development activities to stay current on industry knowledge and adopt new AI capabilities and new technologies.

Tools

• Experience with Salesforce, Snowflake, Power BI, Excel, and presentation tools.
• Familiarity with enterprise AI and knowledge platforms such as Claude, Glean, and other generative AI tools.

AI is embedded in our workflows, decision-making, and products.  Success here requires embracing AI as an essential capability.

• You’ll bring experience using AI and AI-related technologies, ready to thrive here.

• You’ll apply AI every day to business challenges - improving efficiency, contributing solutions, and driving results for your team, our company, and our customers.

• You’ll grow with AI by staying curious about new trends and best practices, and by sharing what you learn so others can benefit too.

Total Rewards 

In addition to a great compensation package, paid time off, and paid parental leave, many Avalara employees are eligible for bonuses. 

Health & Wellness 
Benefits vary by location but generally include private medical, life, and disability insurance. 

Inclusive culture and diversity 
Avalara strongly supports diversity, equity, and inclusion, and is committed to integrating them into our business practices and our organizational culture. We also have a total of 8 employee-run resource groups, each with senior leadership and exec sponsorship. 

We’re defining the relationship between tax and tech.

We’ve already built an industry-leading cloud compliance platform, processing over 54 billion customer API calls and over 6.6 million tax returns a year. Our growth is real - we're a billion dollar business - and we’re not slowing down until we’ve achieved our mission - to be part of every transaction in the world.

We’re bright, innovative, and disruptive, like the orange we love to wear. It captures our quirky spirit and optimistic mindset. It shows off the culture we’ve designed, that empowers our people to win. We’ve been different from day one. Join us, and your career will be too.

We’re An Equal Opportunity Employer

Supporting diversity and inclusion is a cornerstone of our company — we don’t want people to fit into our culture, but to enrich it. 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. If you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know.