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Senior Project Manager

Avalara

Avalara

Operations
United States
USD 126k-244k / year
Posted on Dec 13, 2025

Job Description

What You'll Do

Avalara is looking for a Senior Project Manager for the newly created Business Transformation PMO, who will ensure a high degree of integrity and lead project execution and understanding of teams. The Senior Project Manager will be responsible for a broad range of activities including project management of projects, establishing process and rigor with our partners, and integrating best practices. You are collaborative and possess the ability to communicate a process and structure to allow multiple teams to achieve their goals across the organization. As our Senior Project Manager you will have a record of excellence, operate independently and thrive within a team environment. You can support what is in the best interest of the business. You will report to the Senior Director, Finance AI Transformation. This is a remote position in the United States.

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What Your Responsibilities Will Be

  • Create project plans to support company priorities

  • Operationalize and build scalable processes

  • Define business metrics to track operational effectiveness of projects and identify opportunities for improvement

  • You will guide decision-making

  • Help create main initiative project plans, scope and goals

  • Identify required resources needed to reach goals and manage resources

  • Provide project updates on a consistent basis to multiple partners about strategy, adjustments, and progress

  • You will use industry best practices, techniques, and standards throughout entire project execution

  • Provide executive readout summaries, on specific main projects


What You'll Need to be Successful

  • 5+ years of Project Management experience

  • Project Management Professional (PMP) certification

  • You are experienced in Microsoft Office, with an emphasis on PowerPoint presentations

  • Proficient in the use of Jira and Confluence

  • You have experience coordinating teams, align goals, and lead execution
  • You have experience gaining support by influencing peers and senior leadership
  • Proven ability to solve problems creatively
  • Demonstrated leadership and integrity

Pay Range Details


The base pay range(s) below are provided in compliance with state specific laws. Pay ranges may be
different in other locations.


Colorado $126,000- $201,600 (annually)
Washington $126,00-222,800 (annually)
California $126,000-$244,000 (annually)
NYC $152,600-$244,000 (annually)


The pay range above is the general base pay range for a successful candidate in the state listed. The
successful candidate’s actual salary/wage may be based on various factors, such as geographic
location, candidate experience and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations.
This role is eligible for an annual bonus based on individual and company performance, depending on
the terms of the applicable plan and the employee’s role.


Avalara is an AI-first Company

AI is embedded in our workflows, decision-making, and products. Success here requires embracing AI as an essential capability.

  • You’ll bring experience using AI and AI-related technologies, ready to thrive here.

  • You’ll apply AI every day to business challenges - improving efficiency, contributing solutions, and driving results for your team, our company, and our customers.

  • You’ll grow with AI by staying curious about new trends and best practices, and by sharing what you learn so others can benefit too.


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.


What You Need To Know About Avalara

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.