What You'll Do
We are seeking an experienced Product Manager to join our dynamic team. You will capture and translate common compliance capabilities across Avalara's global suite of compliance offerings into well-defined platform service features and functional requirements. As a bridge between partners, product and the development team, the Product Manager will help deliver high-quality global software platform components - both for services and user interfaces.
Responsibilities
- Product Ownership:
- Understand End-user Needs
- Manage product investments through their lifecycle by instrumenting and measuring KPIs
- Analyse and Manage costs to Run the Business
- Be a primary contact between partners and the development team.
- Requirements Management:
- Collaborate with teams to gather, analyze, and document service requirements.
- Create epics with detailed outcomes and product outcomes, which can be understood and further broken down in user stories with clear acceptance criteria.
- Coordinate the GTM strategy and Operational Readiness
- Experience communicating product updates, milestones, and progress to internal and external partners to the development team.
- Cross-functional Collaboration:
- Participate in agile ceremonies such as sprint planning, backlog grooming, and retrospectives, and quarterly planning, to accomplish your service.
What You'll Need to be Successful
Requirements
- Bachelor's/Masters degree in Management and/or Computer Science or similar.
- Experience as a Product Manager, Owner or similar role;
- Experience with abstract concepts of platform software engineering, software architecture, APIs, services and web UIs.
- Industry experience with tax compliance.
- 3+ years of experience communicating product updates, milestones, and progress to internal and external partners; with-globally distributed teams.
- Experience partnering with your development team, balancing their feedback with our needs.
- Experience with software development processes and methodologies- Agile/Scrum.
- Balance our needs with technical constraints and lead decisions accordingly.
- Experience in creating product backlogs and writing user stories.
- Familiarity with project management tools and collaboration platforms.
- Knowledge of relevant technologies and trends in the industry.
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 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.
Flexible hybrid working
We support hybrid work and flexible schedules for our employees.
Learn more about our benefits by region here: https://careers.avalara.com/
About Avalara
We’re Avalara. We’re defining the relationship between tax and tech.
We’ve already built an industry-leading cloud compliance platform, processing nearly 40 billion customer API calls and over 5 million tax returns a year.
Last year, we became a billion-dollar business
, and our tribe expanded by a cool thousand people - there’s nearly 5,000 of us now. Our growth is real, and we’re not slowing down - not 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. Ownership and achievement go hand in hand here. We instill passion in our people through the trust we place in them.
We’ve been different from day one. Join us, and your career will be too.
EEO Statement
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.
