Avalara APAC is a company focused on defining the relationship between tax and technology, and they are seeking a Senior Director of Product Management for their Business License and Property Tax portfolio. This role involves leading product strategies, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and driving innovation in tax compliance solutions.
Responsibilities:
- Ensure end-to-end accountability by leveraging your combined product, operational, program, and go-to-market knowledge
- Motivate, inspire, and grow your people. Consistently hire A-players, earn their loyalty, and grow their careers
- Lead the shift for our customers from singular product tasks to agentic cross-product workflows as a problem-solver and demonstrated AI experimenter
- Partner cross-functionally and integrate diverse product portfolios
- Drive results through influence and enthusiasm across teams
- Conduct briefings and demos both internally and with customers
Requirements:
- 10+ years of related product management experience and 5+ years of leadership and management experience
- Track record of leading a team of 5-20 directs or matrixed employees, and experience influencing product, design, and engineering teams of 40 – 200+
- Demonstrated success leading products and product teams from inception through launch for solutions that target small, mid, and enterprise-level businesses
- Broad understanding of tax compliance, financial technology, and SaaS environments
- Preferred experience includes domain expertise in tax compliance, specifically 1099, Property Tax, Business Licenses, or Cross-Border
- Bonus if expertise is demonstrated in more than one area
- Experience with agile development methodologies and commonly used tools such as Jira, Confluence, etc
- Experience utilizing customer journey maps to define end-to-end customer experiences
- Hands-on experience analyzing data and deriving actionable outcomes
- Strategic thinking with the ability to go deep when necessary
- A strong collaborator with high EQ and a sense of empathy
- Exceptional written and oral communication skills
- Bachelor's Degree in a relevant field (accounting, business, or computer science); MBA desirable
- Experience using AI and AI-related technologies
- Curiosity about new trends and best practices in AI