Senior Content Editor

What You'll Do

We are looking for a Senior Content Editor to help uphold and improve the quality and consistency of the Avalara brand across all marketing assets. You will ensure marketing content is accurate and grammatically correct along with aligning it with Avalara's voice, style guidelines, and distribution channel requirements. These requirements span multiple formats, including white papers, email communications, landing pages, blogs, web pages, and more.

This is a high-impact role at the intersection of Marketing, Product, Legal, and Corporate Communications.

This is a remote US-based position reporting to the Senior Manager, Content Strategy

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What Your Responsibilities Will Be

Editorial Leadership and Standards

• Support the editorial team in efforts to refine and improve Avalara's editorial guidelines and processes

• Be a subject matter expert on Avalara voice, tone, and style — mentoring new employees and inspiring the broader Content Strategy team

• Oversee the team's AI-powered content systems to ensure all AI-generated output meets brand standards and reflects core messaging.

Content Review & Optimization

• Provide revisions to marketing assets published by Avalara, including copyediting, accuracy checks, and voice/style edits

• Ensure assets are optimized for each medium of distribution — including email (template guidelines), web (metadata and SEO), newsletters, blogs, data sheets, and more

• Edit and improve materials written by internal and third-party resources

• Work with internal design teams and external designers (contract, freelance, and agencies) to ensure quality finished products

Project & Stakeholder Management

• Obtain stakeholder approval on major edits and ensure people complete content reviews

• Collaborate with marketing, product management, legal, and product development to integrate a variety of content and achieve quality outputs

• Consult with legal on messaging and compliance-related content

What You’ll Need To Be Successful

• Bachelor of Arts degree, or comparable experience
• Minimum 8 years of editing experience
• Experience proofreading and ensuring adherence to style and voice guides
• Experience producing and editing content for the web, including SEO optimization
• Experience in a multi-language publishing environment, including globalization for translation
• Working knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, InDesign, and Premiere)
• Working knowledge of project management tools (Jira or Workfront)
• Experience with team collaboration and planning tools (Slack, Miro, Monday.com)

Pay Range Details

The base pay range(s) below are provided in compliance with state specific laws. Pay ranges may be
different in other locations.

Colorado $100,300 - $160,500 (annually) 
Washington $100,300 - $177,200 (annually) 
California $100,300 - $194,300 (annually) 
NYC $110,800 - $194,300 (annually) 

The pay range above is the general base pay range for a successful candidate in the state listed. The
successful candidate’s actual salary/wage may be based on various factors, such as geographic
location, candidate experience and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations.
This role is eligible for an annual bonus based on individual and company performance, depending on
the terms of the applicable plan and the employee’s role.

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.