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Senior Marketing Analytics Manager

Avalara

Avalara

Marketing & Communications, Data Science
California, USA · Canada
Posted on Jan 31, 2026

Job Description

What You'll Do

As a Senior Marketing Analytics Manager you will provide senior individual-contributor leadership to Avalara's Marketing organization by owning how marketing performance is measured, interpreted, and used to drive decisions. You will operate at the intersection of Marketing, RevOps, Sales, Finance, and Data, ensuring analytics frameworks are trusted, scalable, and decision-ready.

You will lead through expertise and influence, not people management, and is accountable for clarity, consistency, and effect of marketing analytics across the business.

This is a remote position reporting to the Director, Marketing Analytics

#LI-Remote


What Your Responsibilities Will Be

Analytics Leadership and Measurement Strategy

  • Lead the definition, evolution, and governance of marketing analytics frameworks

  • Establish clear standards for metrics, definitions, and sources of truth

  • Resolve conflicting interpretations of performance data

Domain Ownership

You will own one or more major analytics domains, such as:

  • Full-funnel and lifecycle measurement

  • Attribution and ROI frameworks

  • Campaign, channel, and program performance

  • GTM and pipeline analytics

  • Executive and board-level marketing reporting

(Multiple Leads may exist, each with distinct domain ownership.)

Insights and Decision Enablement

  • Translate complex analyses into clear insights

  • Lead deep dives, root cause analyses, and opportunity sizing

  • Influence prioritization, investment decisions, and GTM strategy

  • Support senior leadership with decision-ready narratives, not just metrics

Partnership

  • You will partner with:

    • Marketing leadership

    • RevOps and Sales Ops

    • Finance

    • Global Analytics and Insights (GAI), Analytics Engineering, and BI teams

  • Align our needs with data models, reporting, and delivery priorities

  • Represent Marketing Analytics in planning and review forums

Analytics Governance and Standards

  • Define expectations for analytics usage, interpretation, and reporting quality

  • Ensure analytics outputs are trusted and scalable

  • Guide Analytics Engineers and BI partners on implementation priorities

  • Mentor senior analysts and managers through thought leadership and feedback


What You'll Need to be Successful

  • 8–12+ years of experience in marketing analytics, growth analytics, or related fields

  • Oversee complex analytics domains with cross-functional impact

  • Experience supporting senior and executive stakeholders in decision-making forums

  • Understanding of marketing and GTM measurement concepts

  • Analytical problem-framing and structured thinking skills

  • Connect data to business strategy and outcomes

  • SQL and data literacy

  • Experience working with modern data stacks and BI tools


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.