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    Senior Program Manager - Durham, United States - Avalara

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    What You'll Do

    Avalara is hiring a Senior Program Manager to join our Corporate Program Management Office (PMO). The Corporate PMO leads programs shaped around our most strategic growth and efficiency projects. Our program are recognized for their judicious structure, ownership, and ability to guide clarity and understanding while guarding results.

    Are you ready to take on a hands-on role? You will excel in driving organizational change and can create materials for executive leaders. The Senior Program Manager position offers potential for career advancement, providing invaluable exposure to leaders, Operations, Business Development, M&A, Product, and Strategic Planning.

    This role is instrumental in helping Avalara achieve its strategic goals. It will be high visibility, and high impact. We're looking for business leaders who can align teams to common missions, resolve blockers, develop recommendations that accomplish measurable outcomes and results. #LI-remote

    What You'll Need to be Successful

    Responsibilities

    • Lead programs as directed by the head of the Corporate PMO
    • Work among functional leaders on cross-company programs to manage the successful implementation of projects that accelerate revenue growth and efficiency
    • You will understand and unravel programs to keep them on track
    • Navigate a fast-changing business while guarding program outcomes
    • Lead regular program 'rhythms of the business' that breakdown silos and translate into actions
    • Resolve impediments by managing escalations, trade-off decisions, and priorities
    • Implement, coordinate, and measure initiative outcomes, KPIs across all teams
    • Be a consultant and owner on several strategic projects, providing critical project management support and executive-level visibility
    • Partner with SVP and EVP sponsors of specific projects
    • Lead scoping sessions to clarify an initiatives' mission, expected outcomes, and working teams
    • Will consider remote
    Qualifications:
    • 5+ years of experience in program, change, or product management
    • Experience leading teams, having delivered multiple, complex projects on-budget
    • Solid project management skills, with PMP Certification encouraged
    • Experience drawing relevant insights from ambiguous data
    • Proficient in a matrixed organization
    • You will have executive presence and ability to build relationships
    • Experience with Smartsheet and Atlassian (Jira and Confluence)
    • Bachelor's Degree required
    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.

    Flexible hybrid working
    We support hybrid work and flexible schedules for our employees.

    Learn more about our benefits by region here:

    About Avalara

    We're Avalara. We're defining the relationship between tax and tech.

    We've already built an industry-leading cloud compliance platform, processing nearly 40 billion customer API calls and over 5 million tax returns a year.

    Last year, we became a billion-dollar business, and our tribe expanded by a cool thousand people - there's nearly 5,000 of us now. Our growth is real, and we're not slowing down - not 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. Ownership and achievement go hand in hand here. We instill passion in our people through the trust we place in them.

    We've been different from day one. Join us, and your career will be too.

    EEO Statement

    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.

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