Sr. Strategic Initiatives Manager, Enterprise Partner Ecosystems

What You'll Do

You'll join Avalara's Enterprise Partner Ecosystems team, supporting the leader of our enterprise partner and Global System Integrator (GSI) strategy with executive reporting, special projects, and the operational infrastructure needed for a fast-growing function. Your work will directly shape how leadership sees the business and how we reactivate and strengthen key GSI relationships, giving you real ownership rather than a pre-built playbook to execute. Unlike similar roles elsewhere, you'll have genuine latitude to bring AI and automation into how the team operates, not just tolerate it as a buzzword, while building a track record that opens doors to broader strategic leadership within the Partner organization. This role reports to the team's leader and is remote within the United States.

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What Your Responsibilities Will Be

On a typical day, you'll build executive-ready reporting and dashboards, translate leadership priorities into structured plans with clear owners and milestones, and coordinate with internal teams to keep enterprise partner and GSI initiatives moving forward. You'll maintain the documentation, trackers, and playbooks that keep the team's work transparent and scalable, and you'll look for opportunities to use AI and automation to speed up reporting and reduce manual upkeep. Day to day, you'll work primarily in Excel, PowerPoint, Power BI, and Confluence, along with tools like Smartsheet and Salesforce for tracking and partner data.

What You’ll Need To Be Successful

• 5+ years of experience in strategic initiatives, business operations, or program management, including managing cross-functional projects from planning through delivery
• Experience building executive-level reporting, dashboards, or presentations for senior leadership audiences
• Hands-on experience applying or testing AI tools within a real workflow, such as automating reporting, documentation, or data analysis
• Advanced proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint, demonstrated through building models, dashboards, or leadership-facing presentations
• Experience maintaining documentation, trackers, or playbooks that support a team's day-to-day operations
• Bachelor's degree in Business, Analytics, Project Management, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience

Avalara is an AI-first Company

AI is embedded in our workflows, decision-making, and products.  Success here requires embracing AI as an essential capability.

• You’ll bring experience using AI and AI-related technologies, ready to thrive here.

• You’ll apply AI every day to business challenges - improving efficiency, contributing solutions, and driving results for your team, our company, and our customers.

• You’ll grow with AI by staying curious about new trends and best practices, and by sharing what you learn so others can benefit too.

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. 

What You Need To Know About Avalara

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.

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.