Sr. Director, HR Business Partnering

Avalara is hiring a Senior Director, HR Business Partnering to serve as the people strategist and day-to-day partner to two C-suite executives across Technology & Customer Operations and Strategy & Product. The role leads a global HR Business Partner team, shapes organizational and workforce strategies, develops leadership and talent practices, and partners with Centers of Excellence to drive business results.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and grow a global team of HRBPs across TCO and Strategy & Product (North America, India, EMEA, Brazil), setting a high bar for the quality of their advice, and build the next generation of HR leaders from within
• Advise and challenge C-suite and senior executives on org, talent, and strategy. Share accountability for business results through the people decisions you shape, hold those decisions to a people scorecard tied to business outcomes, and give candid, evidence-based views, including what leaders may not want to hear
• Design an AI-native organization: define how work is split between people and AI agents and how teams are structured and run, including roles, spans, layers, and decision rights. Plan headcount, workforce investment, and location strategy with Finance
• Define the kind of leaders Avalara needs for what comes next and keep raising the performance bar. Run executive talent calibration and succession planning against a clear, evidence-based standard that includes effective use of AI, build a deep bench of future leaders, and shape leadership development with Learning & Development
• Set the standard for how Avalara handles its most sensitive people moments, such as restructurings, leadership transitions, and acquisition integrations, and for responsible use of AI in people decisions
• Partner with Centers of Excellence leaders in Total Rewards, Talent Acquisition, Learning & Development, and People Analytics to tailor enterprise frameworks for technical teams and help set enterprise people priorities and the HR operating model, including how HR itself works with AI and data
• Strengthen Avalara's culture and ensure it is an enabler of performance and change, building ownership, urgency, and customer obsession across teams in many time zones, and holding leaders to them

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in HR, business, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• 15+ years of HR experience, including 6+ years of people management experience leading a team of HRBPs, and 5+ years as a senior HR Business Partner to engineering, technology, or product leaders
• A track record advising C-suite and SVP leaders, with the credibility to challenge them and the judgment to know when to push
• Experience designing organizations for technology teams (software development, infrastructure, engineering, and cross-functional product groups), including restructurings and scaling across regions
• Experience leading change at scale as AI and automation reshape roles, job architecture, and teams, and helping people grow into higher-value work
• Global HR experience in employee relations, employment law, and compliance across the U.S. and international markets, and managing HRBPs across regions and time zones
• Fluency with people data and AI: you build with AI tools in your own work, and use data to make the case for decisions and explain it simply
• You'll bring experience using AI and AI-related technologies, ready to thrive here