Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Avalara is an innovative company specializing in tax compliance technology, and they are seeking a Senior Project Manager for Statutory Review and Readiness. The role involves ensuring preparedness for statutory changes, guiding execution across multiple departments, and applying AI to enhance regulatory analysis and operational efficiency.
Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end execution of statutory readiness projects, ensuring on-time delivery with zero preventable customer impact
- Improve understanding across Compliance, Product, Engineering, Government Relations, Finance, and Sales to translate statutory change into system, process, and customer readiness outcomes
- Find and address risks, dependencies, and execution gaps across teams
- Apply AI tools to analyze regulatory inputs, improve readiness tracking, and identify new risks or dependencies earlier in the SRR lifecycle
- Establish scalable SRR operating mechanisms (intake, governance, tracking, and reporting)
- Lead incident response for compliance events, including resolution and prevention improvements
- Define and track program metrics (readiness, risk, execution velocity, and revenue )
- Influence senior team members using data-driven recommendations
- Represent Avalara in discussions with jurisdictional partners strengthening Avalara's credibility and regulatory partnership posture
- Create post-mortem reviews that convert lessons learned into systemic process improvements
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Business, English, Political Science, Public Administration, Finance, or a related field
- 5–7+ years of program/project management experience in environments
- 3+ years of experience managing regulatory, compliance, or operational risk programs
- Previous experience working at Avalara, our partners or as a user of our product is essential for success
- Experience promoting understanding across technical and business teams
- Applied experience using AI to improve execution, or scale
Benefits
- Paid time off
- Paid parental leave
- Many Avalara employees are eligible for bonuses
- Private medical insurance
- Life insurance
- Disability insurance
- Inclusive culture and diversity
- 8 employee-run resource groups, each with senior leadership and exec sponsorship
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