Executive Assistant

What You'll Do

Avalara is looking for an Executive Assistant to support our Chief Financial Officer.  Reporting to the VP of Corporate Experience, you will be a trusted partner to executive leadership, helping create focus, understanding, and execution across main priorities. This is a remote position in the United States (#LI-Remote) and offers the opportunity to work with leaders shaping Avalara's technology, products, AI-driven innovation, and long-term strategy. You'll bring structure to complex priorities, build relationships across the business, and help leaders operate at their best while contributing to the energy and culture that make Avalara a great place to work.  This is a remote position in the United States.

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What Your Responsibilities Will Be

• Manage complex executive calendars, priorities, communications, and scheduling needs.

• Coordinate leadership meetings, offsite events, travel, and executive activities from planning through execution.

• Prepare executives for meetings by organizing agendas, materials, logistics, and follow-up actions.

• Be a primary contact for executive team members and build trusted relationships across the organization.

• Support presentations, expense management, and other administrative activities that help leaders accomplish priorities.

• Coordinate special projects by managing partners, timelines, communications, and action items.

• Partner with Chiefs of Staff on executive operating rhythms, including staff meetings, leadership reviews, and planning processes.

• Track main deliverables and help ensure follow-through on commitments and decisions.

• Identify opportunities to improve processes, increase efficiency, and enhance team effectiveness.

• Develop an understanding of Avalara's technology, AI automation, products, and priorities to better support executive teams

What You’ll Need To Be Successful

• 5+ years of experience supporting senior leaders or executives.

• Experience managing executive calendars, travel, meetings, and confidential information with.

• Experience supporting leaders in technology, product, engineering, strategy, SaaS, or related activities.

• Experience coordinating projects, executive meetings, events, or offsite engagements from planning through completion.

• Demonstrated curiosity, including an interest in AI technologies, product development, business strategy, and identifying opportunities to improve processes and team effectiveness

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 $88,000 - $140,800 (annually) 
Washington $88,000 - $155,700 (annually) 
California $88,000 - $155,700 (annually) 
NYC $88,000 - $155,700 (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.