Vice President Global People Partners

Vice President Global People Partners and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI).

About Avalara:

We’re building cloud-based tax compliance solutions to handle every transaction in the world. Imagine every transaction you make — every tank of gas, cup of coffee, or pair of sneakers, every movie ticket, meal kit, or streamed song, every sensor-to-sensor ping. Nearly every time you make a purchase, physical or digital, there’s an accompanying unique and nuanced tax compliance calculation. The logic behind calculating taxes — the rules, rates, and boundaries is a global, layered, three-dimensional mess of complexity, with compliance dictated by governments and applied by every business, every day.

Overview:

With a global workforce of approximately 5,000 employees, $1B in revenue, and more than 30,000 customers, Avalara is in a period of exciting transformation. Our goal is to become a “rule of 50 company.” As Venturebeat says - “Stated simply, the Rule of 50 is governed by the principle that if the percentage of annual revenue growth plus earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) as a percentage of revenue are equal to 50 or greater, the company is performing at an elite level.” Our People & Culture focus is to ensure Avalara is attracting, developing, and retaining rockstar talent through engaging and career-changing work in an inclusive and fun community.

This is a unique opportunity to lead a team of global People Partners and to drive a prodromic approach to diversity, equity, and inclusion at Avalara. This individual will partner with senior executives and be a thought partner in scaling the organization.

About the Role:

This role collaborates with a team of global HR leaders who are experts in a wide range of functional areas, including Employee Experience, Total Rewards, Talent Acquisition, Talent and Leadership development, and HR Ops, Analytics, and Enablement.

This individual is a partner to executives and drives leadership to enable an employee-oriented, high-performance culture that embodies our core values.

This individual leads strategic and measurable initiatives that are aligned with Avalara’s business objectives.

While leading a team of 20 HR professionals, the VP of People Partners and DEI will lead and inspire a team of awesome professionals to:

· Optimize a truly global workforce that is unified by our success traits, a long-term business imperative, and a culture, And the color orange.

· Drive a global programmatic approach to DEI that is intentional, measurable, and repeatable.

· Partner with the business to ensure bar-raising organizational health and employee experience.

· Inspect, build, and adapt people programs that scale to help transform the next few chapters of Avalara.

· Lead a high performing/highly engaged team of HR professionals around the world.

To be successful in this position, you should have:

· Minimum of 10 years of experience, including exposure to a small company or start-up environment as well as larger companies with evidence of rapid growth in responsibility

· Grit, optimism, humility, adaptability, and agility

· Experience working with and running global teams.

· Ability to assess, drive, measure, and influence through data.

· A high bar for simplification.

· Proven success in developing and deploying high-impact people programs around organizational effectiveness and strategic planning enterprise-wide.

· Proven aptitude for collaborating, influencing, and driving change with leaders across startup organizations while aligning people strategies with business goals and growth.

· Leverage data and analytics to drive people practices that enhance employee satisfaction and align with corporate objectives.

· Proven ability to effectively influence and communicate at all levels of the organization and manage multiple stakeholder relationships.

· Strong business acumen and ability to participate in strategic and operational business discussions with critical leadership.

• Global experience required

· The ability to travel 50% of the time.

Avalara works with businesses of all sizes, all over the world — from corner stores to gigantic global retailers — to calculate tax accurately and automatically at speeds measured in milliseconds. That’s a massive technical challenge, in terms of scale, reliability, and complexity, and we do it better than anyone. That’s why we’re growing fast. Headquartered in Seattle, Avalara has offices across the U.S. and around the world, in Brazil, Canada, India, UK, Belgium and across Europe.

Equal Opportunities:

Avalara is an Equal Opportunity Employer. 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.