What You'll Do
Location:
Pune, India
Reports to:
Director, Executive Recruiting (U.S.-based)Avalara is seeking strategic Principal Executive Recruiter to lead and deliver the best searches across our Director and VP-level leadership hiring in India. This is highly visible role that partners directly with senior executives and business leaders across all business units.You will drive full-cycle, insight-led executive searches—overseeing everything from kickoff to close. The ideal candidate brings executive search expertise and a high bar for both candidate and stakeholder experience. We are looking for communication finesse while aligning with global standards.This is an Individual Contributor role.
What Your Responsibilities Will Be
- Lead full-cycle executive searches (Director through VP-level) across India, in Engineering, Product, and Customer & Compliance Operations (CCO)
- Be a strategic talent advisor to senior leaders—guiding role definition, search strategy, interview planning, and candidate decision-making
- You will Develop and deliver high-quality, curated candidate slates with speed, and insight
- You will collaborate with the global Executive Recruiting team on shared processes, templates, reporting, and executive search governance
- You will Deliver a white-glove candidate experience and clear storytelling about Avalara's opportunity
- Manage multiple executive searches concurrently while maintaining quality, consistency, and alignment with our leadership bar
What You’ll Need To Be Successful
- 15+ years of experience recruiting, with 5+ years focused on Director+ or executive-level hiring in a global company or retained/executive search firm
- A strong track record of engaging and influencing VP+ stakeholders.
- Deep sourcing expertise—able to build, calibrate, and refine high-quality candidate pipelines
- Understand functional requirements across Engineering, Product, or customer-facing organizations
- Prior experience partnering across time zones and cultures in a global TA team structure
- Presence and situational awareness in high-level conversations—able to listen before acting, and influence without overstepping
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience hiring across all business functions
- Prior work in high-growth SaaS or technology organizations
- Familiarity with executive compensation frameworks and offer processes
Why Avalara?
Avalara is a category-defining company solving tax compliance at global scale. With a dynamic leadership team and an transformation agenda, we are building an executive recruiting function that matches the pace, and scale of the business. This is an opportunity to shape the future of leadership hiring in India and be a key partner to Avalara's next generation of talent.How We’ll Take Care Of YouTotal RewardsIn addition to a great compensation package, paid time off, and paid parental leave, many Avalara employees are eligible for bonuses.Health & WellnessBenefits vary by location but generally include private medical, life, and disability insurance.Inclusive culture and diversityAvalara 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.
