What You'll Do
We are seeking a Sr. Manager, Product Management - Platforms with over 12+ years of experience to lead our platforms strategy and execution. In this role, you will manage a team of product managers and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver exceptional platform solutions that drive value for our customers. You will play a crucial role in defining the product vision, strategy, and roadmap, ensuring alignment with Avalara's overall business goals.
Key Responsibilities
- Product Strategy & Vision: Define and communicate the product vision and strategy for our platform offerings, ensuring alignment with company objectives and customer needs.
- Leadership & Team Management: Lead and mentor a team of product managers, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement. These products include Avatax, ECM, Business Licenses and Integrations with ERPs.
- Market Analysis: Conduct thorough market research and competitive analysis to identify opportunities and threats in the platform space.
- Stakeholder Collaboration: Work closely with engineering, design, marketing, and sales teams to drive product development, ensuring timely and successful delivery of features.
- Customer Engagement: Engage with customers to gather feedback, understand pain points, and ensure our platform solutions meet their evolving needs.
- Roadmap Development: Develop and maintain a prioritised product roadmap that aligns with business objectives and resource capabilities.
- Performance Metrics: Establish and track key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure the success of platform initiatives and make data-driven decisions.
- Agile Methodology: Champion agile practices within the product team, ensuring effective sprint planning, execution, and retrospectives.
Qualifications
- Experience: 12+ years of experience in product management, with a focus on platform products in the SaaS industry.
- Leadership: Proven track record of leading and developing high-performing product teams.
- Technical Expertise: Strong understanding of software development processes, APIs, and cloud-based platforms.
- Analytical Skills: Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills, with a data-driven mindset.
- Communication: Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to present complex concepts to diverse audiences.
- Customer Focus: Deep commitment to understanding customer needs and delivering exceptional user experiences.
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field (e.g., Computer Science, Business, or Engineering); MBA preferred.
What You'll Need to be Successful
You will play a crucial role in defining the product vision, strategy, and roadmap, ensuring alignment with Avalara's overall business goals.
About The Team
Avalara's product team is a dynamic and innovative group dedicated to simplifying tax compliance through cutting-edge technology. Comprised of talented professionals with diverse backgrounds in product management, engineering, and design, the team collaborates closely to develop solutions that meet the evolving needs of our customers. With a strong focus on user experience and data-driven decision-making, the product team leverages deep market insights to create robust, scalable offerings. Their commitment to agility and continuous improvement fosters a culture of creativity and collaboration, ensuring that Avalara remains at the forefront of the industry. Together, they drive our mission to empower businesses with seamless and efficient tax solutions.
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.
