What You'll DoWe are seeking a highly skilled
Sr. Product Manager
to lead Avalara’s API roadmap and strategy. In this role, you will be responsible for owning the vision, strategy, and execution of Avalara’s API products, ensuring they are scalable, reliable, and easy to use. You will collaborate with internal stakeholders, customers, and development teams to create a world-class API platform that enables smooth integrations across Avalara’s products and provides an excellent developer experience. This is a high-impact role that will shape how Avalara’s products integrate with external systems, creating opportunities for growth and innovation.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and lead the overall API strategy, aligning with Avalara’s business goals and customer needs.
- Own the API product roadmap, ensuring scalability, security, and a seamless integration experience for customers and partners.
- Collaborate with engineering, product teams, and external developers to define API requirements, prioritize features, and drive the product lifecycle from ideation to launch.
- Ensure API products are well-documented, developer-friendly, and deliver a great user experience.
- Work with customers and partners to gather feedback, understand their integration challenges, and identify opportunities to enhance the API platform.
- Identify and drive initiatives to improve the performance, scalability, and security of Avalara’s API products.
- Monitor API usage, performance metrics, and customer feedback to continuously improve and optimize the platform.
- Stay current with API and integration best practices, industry trends, and emerging technologies to keep Avalara’s API offerings competitive.
- Partner with product marketing and sales teams to ensure the API strategy aligns with market needs and supports Avalara’s growth objectives.
- Drive the adoption of a “platform-first” approach across the organization, advocating for investments in API capabilities that enable seamless integrations and improve customer outcomes.
Qualifications
- 8+ years of product management experience, with a focus on API products, platforms, or developer tools.
- Strong understanding of RESTful APIs, API security, microservices architecture, and cloud-based infrastructures.
- Proven track record of successfully managing API products from concept to launch, including owning roadmaps and driving cross-functional initiatives.
- Strong technical background with the ability to collaborate effectively with engineering teams to solve complex challenges.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to articulate product vision and API strategies to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Experience working with customers, developers, and partners to gather feedback, understand pain points, and prioritize API features.
- Analytical mindset with the ability to use data and performance metrics to inform product decisions.
- Experience in a SaaS environment, with familiarity with ERP, CRM, or accounting software integrations being a plus.
- Strong organizational skills and ability to manage multiple projects and stakeholders simultaneously.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in tax compliance, fintech, or highly regulated industries.
- Hands-on experience with API management platforms like Postman, Swagger, or Apigee.
- Familiarity with API monetization strategies and developer ecosystem management.
What You’ll Need To Be SuccessfulTo succeed as a Sr. Product Manager for API Roadmap and Strategy at Avalara, you will need a strong background in product management with a specific focus on APIs and developer-facing products. A deep understanding of API technologies (RESTful APIs, microservices, API security) and the ability to work closely with engineering teams to build scalable and secure solutions are essential. Success in this role requires a strategic mindset to define the API vision and roadmap, coupled with excellent problem-solving skills to address complex integration challenges. Strong communication skills are key, as you’ll need to articulate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders and collaborate cross-functionally. You’ll also need a customer-first approach to ensure that the API products deliver value to partners, developers, and internal teams. Experience with performance monitoring, data-driven decision-making, and managing platform products in fast-paced SaaS environments will set you apart.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.Learn more about our benefits by region here: Avalara North America
What You Need To Know About Avalara
We’re Avalara. We’re defining the relationship between tax and tech. We’ve already built an industry-leading cloud compliance platform, processing nearly 40 billion customer API calls and over 5 million tax returns a year. Last year, we became a billion-dollar business
, and our tribe expanded by a cool thousand people - there’s nearly 5,000 of us now. Our growth is real, and we’re not slowing down - not 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. Ownership and achievement go hand in hand here. We instill passion in our people through the trust we place in them. 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.
