Avalara is an AI-first company. You will use AI to enhance productivity, quality, innovation, and customer value. AI is embedded in our workflows and products. Success at Avalara requires embracing AI as an essential capability, not an optional tool. As a hybrid Indirect Tax Research Manager for the Property tax and Communications Tax Research team working in Pune. You will lead a team of 6 researchers as they research tax law, tax rates, and reporting and remittance requirements to keep Avalara products in compliance with jurisdictional tax laws. You will foster an engaging work environment and facilitate collaboration between tax research and engineering change deployment teams. You will report to the Indirect Tax leadership team

• Determine how best to use team resources to and efficiency in delivering on team goals and meeting leadership goals.
• Oversee the research of tax law, reporting, and remittance requirements to keep our tax products in compliance with federal, state, county, and local jurisdiction tax laws for property tax and telecommunication tax
• Lead your team of Indirect Tax Researchers in Pune as they apply taxability changes to our software, providing review of their research and work product for telecommunication tax and Property tax
• Work with Several teams in the US daily to resolve problems and set priorities for your team
• Develop as an expert in multiple tax types for collaboration in setting team goals and managing business expectations.
• Manage a response to customer tax questions as assigned to your team
• When opportunities to further automate processes exist, raise them to ensure prioritization and ticket creation for Content Engineering

• You bring five years related experience and at least one year in a leadership role managing research teams working in North America tax research.
• You will provide hands-on guidance to team members while ensuring accuracy and efficiency in project execution
• You have legal research experience and an approach to analysing how the language in the law translates to tax calculation.
• You have a relevant bachelor's degree (i.e. Accounting, Finance, Law, and Economics)
• You are knowledgeable in database management systems

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This is a remote position.

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.

We’re defining the relationship between tax and tech.

We’ve already built an industry-leading cloud compliance platform, processing over 54 billion customer API calls and over 6.6 million tax returns a year. Our growth is real - we're a billion dollar business - and we’re not slowing down 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. We’ve been different from day one. Join us, and your career will be too.

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.