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• Partner directly with Talent Acquisition leaders, People Business Partners, and functional business leaders to understand talent priorities, diagnose business problems, and deliver high-impact workforce analytics.
• Provide priority analytical support to Talent Acquisition, monitoring full-funnel recruiting metrics (sourcing effectiveness, time-to-fill/hire, pass-through conversion rates, candidate experience, hiring quality, and recruiter capacity).
• Partner closely with PBPs to provide holistic talent insights across the employee lifecycle, connecting hiring trends to retention, turnover drivers, promotion velocity, performance, and organizational design.
• Collaborate with other P&C Centers of Excellence (Total Rewards, Talent Development, DE&I, HR Operations) to ensure cohesive, cross-functional people insights and strategic alignment.
• Translate ambiguous questions and anecdotal feedback into rigorous, structured hypotheses, investigative analyses, and clear business narratives.

• Query, manipulate, and analyze complex People and recruiting datasets using SQL, BI visualization tools (e.g., Tableau, Power BI), and statistical methods.
• Conduct deep dive data analyses to uncover the root causes ("the why") behind performance shifts, hiring bottlenecks, attrition trends and other areas across the employee lifecycle.
• Design and deliver compelling data stories, executive presentations, and self-service dashboards tailored for diverse audiences, ranging from operational teams to executive leadership.

• Champion high standards for data integrity, governance, and consistency across all People and Talent data sources (ATS, HRIS, CRM, engagement platforms).
• Standardize core metrics, calculations, and definitions to maintain a single source of truth across P&C reporting and analytics toolkits.
• Treat analytics and employee experience as a product and apply design thinking, iterative feedback loops, user journeys, and agile enablement to ensure tools and insights are widely adopted and drive action.
• Champion the use of modern AI tools in the daily flow of work to accelerate research, data synthesis, query optimization, and insight generation.

• Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative or analytical discipline (e.g., Industrial/Organizational Psychology, Statistics, Mathematics, Data Science, Economics, Business Analytics, Engineering) or equivalent practical experience.
• 3+ years of experience in an HR-focused, stakeholder-facing People Analytics or Business Analytics role.
• At least 1+ years of dedicated experience analyzing Talent Acquisition / Recruiting data, pipelines, and hiring metrics.
• Fluency in SQL and advanced Excel/Google Sheets for complex data extraction, manipulation, and modeling.
• Proficiency with modern BI and data visualization platforms (e.g., Tableau, Power BI, Visier, or Looker).
• Proven track record of end-to-end analytical project delivery: framing business questions, defining metrics, analyzing data, synthesizing findings, and delivering executive-ready presentations.
• Experience leveraging modern AI productivity tools (e.g., LLMs, AI assistants) in the analytical workflow to enhance efficiency and insight discovery.

• Experience with programming languages for statistical analysis or automation (e.g., Python, R).
• Experience working with enterprise HRIS and ATS ecosystems (e.g., Workday, Greenhouse, Lever, Phenom, or similar).
• Demonstrated experience applying product management and design thinking frameworks (roadmapping, user persona development, iterative prototyping) to HR solutions.
• Strong familiarity with workforce planning, attrition modeling, talent supply/demand modeling, and diversity analytics.
• Exceptional communication, stakeholder management, and consulting skills with the ability to influence cross-functional teams and senior leaders.

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.

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.

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.