O que você fará
We are seeking an experienced Technical Product Owner to join our dynamic team.
The ideal candidate will be responsible for translating common compliance capabilities across Avalara’s global suite of compliance offerings into well-defined platform service features and technical requirements.
As a bridge between business stakeholders, architects and the development team, the Senior Technical Product Owner will play a critical role in delivering high-quality global software platform components - both for services and user interfaces.
Responsabilidades
Product Ownership
Act as the primary point of contact between cross-functional stakeholders and the development team.
Understand functional needs across Avalara’s global compliance offerings and translate into common, global service capabilities
Create a product backlog, ensuring alignment with stakeholder priorities.
Requirements Management
Collaborate with teams to gather, analyze, and document service requirements.
Break down epics into actionable user stories and technical tasks.
Clearly communicate product requirements to the development team.
Technical Leadership
Work closely with product managers, architects and development teams, providing guidance on global platform capabilities and ensuring alignment with multiple consuming solution teams.
Define and prioritize requirements for technical aspects of services, including scalability, performance, and other relevant factors.
Cross-functional Collaboration
Foster effective communication and collaboration between product managers, architects, development team and other cross-functional teams.
Participate in agile ceremonies such as sprint planning, backlog grooming, and retrospectives, as well as quarterly planning, to drive execution of your service.
Product Vision
Stay informed about industry trends and technological advancements to drive innovation.
Understand the overall vision and strategy for your services and align your services and team
Assist in evangelizing and promoting benefits of and plans for your services to engineering, product management and business stakeholders.
O que precisa possuir para ser bem sucedido
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or similar.
- Proven experience as a Technical Product Owner or similar role; background in hands-on software development preferred.
- Strong understanding of abstract concepts of platform software engineering, software architecture, APIs, services and web UIs.
- Experience with complex, enterprise architectures.
- Industry experience with tax compliance.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills; ability to communicate with cross-functional-globally distributed teams.
- Proven ability to partner with your development team, balancing their feedback with the needs of the business.
- Strong understanding of software development processes and methodologies, particularly Agile/Scrum.
- Ability to balance business needs with technical constraints and drive decisions accordingly.
- Experience in creating and maintaining product backlogs and writing user stories.
- Familiarity with project management tools and collaboration platforms.
- Knowledge of relevant technologies and trends in the industry.
- Fluent English
- Position with international interaction teams, only resumes sent in English will be considered.
Important To Know
- This is a position that will interact with international teams, for this reason only resumes sent in English will be considered.
Como cuidaremos de você
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/
Sobre a 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.
