[Hiring] Talent Advisor @Avalara

Role Description

Help shape how Avalara scales its technology and customer organizations. The Talent Advisor, TCO is a strategic role embedded with Avalara’s Technology and Customer Operations leadership teams. This position partners directly with senior leaders across:

• Engineering
• IT
• Customer Experience
• Customer Support
• Professional Services
• Customer Onboarding

This role blends strategic talent advisory with hands-on recruiting for a small number of high-impact roles, ensuring Avalara continues to attract exceptional leaders and specialized talent while scaling as an AI-first, globally connected company.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a strategic talent partner to TCO leadership
• Partner with leaders across Engineering, IT, and Customer Operations to understand business priorities and evolving talent needs
• Help translate product, technology, and customer growth plans into thoughtful hiring strategies
• Provide talent market insight, competitor benchmarks, and hiring intelligence to inform leadership decisions
• Participate in planning cycles and leadership rhythms as the talent strategy partner
• Guide strategic hiring and talent decisions
• Advise leaders on role design, hiring priorities, and talent availability across global markets
• Deliver talent mapping insights and pipeline visibility for critical technical and customer-facing capabilities
• Support thoughtful, structured hiring decisions across senior and specialized roles
• Lead select high-impact searches
• Personally lead recruiting for a targeted set of niche roles where senior judgment and expertise are required
• Partner with hiring leaders on search strategy, candidate calibration, and final hiring decisions
• Deliver a high-quality candidate experience that reflects Avalara’s culture and values
• Leverage talent intelligence, market data, and emerging trends to guide hiring strategy
• Partner closely with HR Business Partners, Finance, and TA colleagues to align hiring plans with business priorities
• Help strengthen scalable recruiting practices as Avalara continues to grow globally

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in talent acquisition within a high-growth technology or SaaS environment
• Deep experience recruiting for technical and customer-facing roles including Engineering, IT, Customer Experience, Support, or Professional Services
• Demonstrated ability to partner with senior business leaders as a trusted advisor on hiring strategy and talent decisions
• Strong understanding of how technology and customer organizations scale and the talent capabilities required to support growth
• Ability to translate talent market insight into practical recommendations for business leaders
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and judgment

Benefits

• Great compensation package
• Paid time off
• 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 initiatives
• 8 employee-run resource groups with senior leadership and executive sponsorship

Company Description

We’re defining the relationship between tax and tech. We’ve already built an industry-leading cloud compliance platform, processing over 54 billion customer API calls and over 6.6 million tax returns a year. Our growth is real - we're a billion dollar business - and we’re not slowing down 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. We’ve been different from day one. Join us, and your career will be too.