Sr. Product Manager, Platform AI - Avalara
Durham, NC 27701
About the Job
The Senior Product Manager - Platform AI will lead product management our AI platform team. You have a passion for AI and can envision how AI can improve tax compliance for our internal and external users. You'll partner with our teams across Avalara to deliver world-class innovative AI-assisted products and solutions. You will work remotely out of the US. (#LI-Remote)
This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship
You will:
- Be the lead product representative on our internal AI council
- Bring forward prioritized ideas from the AI council and manage them through our SDLC
- Oversee the product backlog for the AI team
- Ensure prioritized initiatives have actionable requirements
4+ years of experience as a product manager working on multiple products with different challenges and opportunities
Bachelor's Degree in a relevant field (accounting, business, data science, or computer science); MBA desirable
Experience working on SaaS products with customer bases that span small business owners, SMB, and enterprise
Experience building custom reports (and queries) to solve complex reporting requirements
Have worked on products at multiple lifecycle stages, and with different kinds of challenges and opportunities
Experience with agile development methodologies, the Product Owner role, and commonly used tools such as Jira, Confluence
Experience building API-based products
Demonstrated experience partnering with design teams on UI/UX
Experience writing detailed product specs and documentation
Ability to work independently, reporting directly to VP of Platform.
This is an IC role, no management experience needed.
Experience using JIRA, Confluence, generative chat tools like ChatGPT.
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.
