Project Manager, Statutory Review and Readiness

Avalara is an AI-first company that operates across thousands of tax jurisdictions, ensuring customer compliance and brand trust amidst regulatory changes. The Sr. Project Manager will lead the execution of statutory readiness projects, collaborating with various teams to mitigate compliance risks and protect revenue through effective planning and AI integration.

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
• Enhance team capability by sharing AI best practices and contributing to broader adoption
• Use AI to synthesize regulatory changes and create structured risk insights
• Apply AI to improve meeting documentation, action tracking, executive-ready summaries, and communications, reducing administrative overhead while improving clarity and quality
• Analyze trends and risks using AI to improve readiness planning
• Measure AI impact (cycle time, risk reduction, execution efficiency)
• Ensure responsible and secure AI usage when handling customer, regulatory, or incident-related data

Requirements:

• 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
• Experience promoting understanding across technical and business teams
• Applied experience using AI to improve execution, or scale