What You'll Do Avalara is seeking a detail-oriented Jr. Product Manager who will play a critical role in bridging the gap between business requirements and engineering execution. The ideal candidate will have a passion for translating business needs into detailed product requirements and ensuring the successful delivery of high-quality, scalable SaaS solutions. You’ll work closely with cross-functional teams, especially engineering, to ensure that projects are executed on time and meet business objectives. Key Responsibilities: Translate Business Requirements: Collaborate with stakeholders and senior product managers to understand and capture high-level business needs, and convert them into detailed, technical requirements for the engineering team. Detailed Requirement Documentation: Write clear and concise user stories, technical requirements, and acceptance criteria that accurately reflect business goals, ensuring engineering teams have actionable direction. Collaborate with Engineering: Serve as the primary point of contact for engineering teams during development, providing clarity on product requirements and facilitating communication between business and technical stakeholders. Track Progress to Closure: Manage the end-to-end tracking of product development activities, ensuring timelines are met, blockers are resolved, and product delivery aligns with business expectations. Quality Assurance: Work closely with QA teams to ensure that products are thoroughly tested, meet acceptance criteria, and deliver high-quality user experiences. Support Product Launches: Assist with the product launch process, including creating supporting documentation and communicating product features to internal teams. Qualifications: 3 years of experience in product management or relevant experience in translating business requirements into detailed technical specifications. Strong understanding of the software development lifecycle (SDLC) and Agile methodologies. Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across teams. Experience in writing detailed user stories, requirements, and technical documentation for engineering teams. Familiarity with Agile tools such as Jira, Confluence, or similar platforms. Experience in a SaaS environment is a plus. What You'll Need to be Successful Attention to Detail: A keen eye for detail in documenting requirements, writing user stories, and tracking the progress of product development to ensure that nothing is missed. Excellent Communication Skills: Strong written and verbal communication skills to effectively convey business requirements to technical teams, and to clarify details throughout the development process. Collaboration and Teamwork: Ability to work closely with cross-functional teams, including engineering, QA, and product stakeholders, ensuring alignment and smooth execution of product goals. Problem-Solving Mindset: The ability to quickly identify challenges during the development process and work collaboratively with teams to resolve issues efficiently. Drive for Results: A focus on ensuring that the final product meets business objectives, is delivered on time, and provides a high-quality user experience. About the Team The Product Management team at Avalara is at the heart of driving innovation and shaping the company’s strategic vision for simplifying tax compliance through cutting-edge SaaS solutions. Our team consists of passionate, customer-focused professionals who are committed to solving complex business problems by delivering products that meet the evolving needs of businesses across the globe. We collaborate closely with engineering, design, sales, and marketing teams to ensure that our products not only provide immense value to customers but also align with Avalara’s broader business goals. With a strong emphasis on data-driven decision-making, agility, and user-centered design, Avalara's Product Management team thrives in a dynamic environment where we continuously seek new ways to innovate and enhance the user experience. Whether it's driving new product initiatives or optimizing existing offerings, the team plays a crucial role in the company’s mission to be the leader in tax compliance automation. 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. 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