Senior HR Business Partner

We are looking for a highly engaged and enthusiastic Senior People Partner to join our team. Reporting to Senior Director, People & Culture, International you will work closely with the Product and Engineering client groups to deliver full employee life cycle talent and people programs, supporting leaders in effectively managing engagement and culture within their organisations.

With a background in organisational and change management practices to help leaders design their organisations for scale and agility, you will be a champion for our amazing and unique culture to ensure that we are embodying the Avalara Success Traits. This position entails both strategic and tactical functions – assessing the needs of the business and translating those into actions that will help grow and develop the business, its leaders and employees.

What You’ll Need to be Successful:

• Experience in enterprise software (SaaS preferred) and/or growth environment.
• Pan European experience working in within a highly matrixed global organisation.
• Proven experience in coaching, developing and influencing leadership teams with a strong balance of Emotional Intelligence and business acumen.
• Enjoys working in a fast-paced environment with a high degree of adaptability.
• Builds strong relationships with global cross functional teams.
• Working knowledge of multiple human resource disciplines including compensation practices, organisational diagnosis, employee relations, diversity, recruitment, performance management, and EMEA employment laws.
• Ease in working in different HRIS, including Workday.
• Interpersonal skills consistent with an entrepreneurial, small to medium business environment where teamwork is critical to success.
• 8+ years working in Human Resources.

About the Team: Working within a hybrid environment, you will be an important member of the Global People Partner team, located across multiple locations in EMEA, Brazil, the USA and India.

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.
• Flexible hybrid working: We support hybrid work and flexible schedules for our employees.

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.

EEO Statement: 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.