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Sr. Product Manager - Compliance Document

Avalara
  • Durham, North Carolina
    2 days ago

    Job Description

    What You'll Do:

    In this role, you will own and advance the product roadmap for Avalara Exemption Certificate Management (ECM), our next-generation platform that automates the creation, collection, validation, and renewal of tax exemption documents for thousands of businesses across the U.S. and beyond. You will work at the intersection of customer compliance needs and cutting-edge AI capabilities. You'll benefit from deep integration across Avalara's full compliance ecosystem, giving your roadmap decisions outsized reach and impact.

     

    This role reports to Dave Williams and is hybrid-Durham. Remote will be considered for the right candidate.

    What Your Responsibilities Will Be:

    Day to day, you will define requirements, prioritize the ECM backlog, and partner with engineering to ship features that help customers reduce audit risk and manage exemption certificates at scale. You will regularly engage with customers, sales, and our Managed Services team to surface compliance gaps and translate them into actionable product improvements, including AI-powered validation workflows and campaign management tools. You will use Jira and Confluence to manage your roadmap and communicate progress, and collaborate with Product Marketing to support go-to-market launches across ECM's Essentials, Pro, and Premium tiers.

    What You'll Need to be Successful:
    • Demonstrated experience as a Product Manager shipping SaaS or B2B software products end-to-end, from discovery through launch.

    • Ability to independently define a product roadmap, prioritize a backlog, and communicate trade-offs to engineering and executive stakeholders without heavy guidance.

    • Experience translating complex customer or regulatory requirements into clear, actionable product specs and user stories.

    • Track record of working cross-functionally with engineering, sales, marketing, and customer success to deliver and position product changes.

    • Comfort presenting product strategy and results to senior leadership and external customers.

    • Experience with compliance, document management, tax technology, or another regulated SaaS domain is a strong advantage.

    Avalara is an AI-first Company:

    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.

    How We'll Take Care of You:

    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 diversit
    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. 

     

    What You Need To Know About Avalara:

    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.

    Numbers & Facts

    LocationDurham, North Carolina
    IndustryComputer Software
    Company Size1,000 to 1,499 employees
    Websitehttp://www.avalara.com

    About Company

    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. 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 and London, England; Brussels, Belgium; and Pune, India. More information at: www.avalara.com

    Skills

    • Agile Programming Methodologiesunmatched
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    • Backlog Prioritizationunmatched
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    • Customer Support/Serviceunmatched
    • Digital Certificatesunmatched
    • Disability Insuranceunmatched
    • Diversityunmatched
    • Document Managementunmatched
    • Ecosystemsunmatched
    • Engineering Change Managementunmatched
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    • Regulatory Requirementsunmatched
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    • Risk Managementunmatched
    • Salesunmatched
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)unmatched
    • Tax Accountingunmatched
    • Tax Returnsunmatched
    • Team Lead/Managerunmatched

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