[Hiring] Senior Technical Recruiter @Avalara

Role Description

As a Senior Technical Recruiter at Avalara, you'll lead searches that shape the future of our team. You'll operate at the intersection of business strategy and talent, partnering directly with senior leaders to identify, attract, and hire exceptional executives who can drive growth, transformation, and innovation. This is a remote position in the United States.

• Lead full-cycle searches across all key functions across Engineering and Product.
• Partner directly with C-level, senior executives, and stakeholders to define role requirements, success criteria, and hiring strategy.
• Deliver a white-glove candidate experience from first conversation through close.
• Conduct in-depth interviews to assess leadership capability, scope readiness, and alignment with Avalara's business and culture.
• Drive inclusive, data-informed search strategies that bring diversity, excellence, and insight to every leadership slate.
• Create polished, insight-driven candidate summaries and present recommendations to stakeholders.
• Communicate progress with clarity and confidence, providing ongoing market insights, recommendations, and search updates.
• Leverage AI and automation tools to streamline outreach, scheduling, and documentation while maintaining a personalized touch.
• Build strong partnerships with internal recruiting, HR, and business leaders to ensure a unified and consistent leadership hiring process.
• Protect confidentiality and represent Avalara's brand with discretion and professionalism in the executive market.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in recruiting in a global company or retained/executive search firm.
• Deep understanding of leadership assessment, business context, and organizational structure.
• Proven ability to influence, guide, and advise senior leaders through critical hiring decisions.
• Strong interviewing, storytelling, and stakeholder management skills.
• Proficiency with LinkedIn Recruiter, ATS platforms, and AI-enhanced recruiting tools (e.g., Claude, Glean, Perplexity, automation assistants).
• Exceptional written and verbal communication, with the ability to synthesize insights and produce executive-ready updates.
• Professional maturity, sound judgment, and a calm, polished approach under pressure.
• A genuine passion for elevating candidate and stakeholder experience while improving systems and processes.

Benefits

• 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.
• Avalara strongly supports diversity, equity, and inclusion, and is committed to integrating them into our business practices and our organizational culture.
• A total of 8 employee-run resource groups, each with senior leadership and exec sponsorship.

Company Description

Avalara is defining the relationship between tax and tech. We’ve 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.