Senior Director, Global Talent Management

Avalara; Durham (NC); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Senior Director of Global Talent Management to design and scale talent strategies. This role involves managing a global team, enhancing performance processes, and developing future leaders. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in talent management and organizational design, with a focus on data-driven decision-making. Join a vibrant culture that values diversity and innovation.

Benefits

Paid time off

Paid parental leave

Private medical insurance

Life insurance

Disability insurance

Qualifications

• 12-15+ years in talent management or organizational effectiveness.
• 5+ years leading global initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Lead performance and promotion processes across the company.
• Build succession plans for critical roles.
• Own early career programs for interns and new grads.

Skills

Leadership

Data Analysis

Problem Solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in Human Resources

Tools

Workday

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What You'll Do

At Avalara, our Winning Culture is built on performance and a constant drive to get better. We reward those who move fast—while embracing the unique qualities that make Avalarians stand out. The Senior Director, Global Talent Management plays a central role in making this real—designing and scaling talent strategies that embed high expectations, strengthen organizational health, and accelerate transformation. From how we assess performance to how we grow leaders and structure our teams. Reporting to the Global VP of People, you will manage a global team of experts focused on performance, succession, and early talent development. This role is built for a leader who sees gaps, solves problems, and enables people to deliver better results every day.

What Your Responsibilities Will Be

• Lead company-wide performance and promotion processes, ensuring expectations are clear, high performers are recognized, and career growth is visible.
• Build robust succession plans for critical roles, helping leaders identify and prepare future talent to meet our needs.
• Partner on organizational design efforts to support faster decisions, reduce complexity, and reinforce accountability across teams.
• Own early career programs—including interns and new grads—connecting emerging talent with meaningful work, feedback, and clear paths for growth.
• Define and close skill gaps by aligning learning efforts to the capabilities that matter most for individual and team performance.
• Improve talent systems and programs using data, feedback, and insights—ensuring they are easy to use and deliver results.
• Leverage Workday and other platforms to streamline execution, and explore AI and automation to enhance decision-making and simplify processes.
• Lead a high-performing team that takes ownership, moves quickly, and keeps learning.
  
  

What You’ll Need To Be Successful

• You have 12–15+ years of experience in talent management or organizational effectiveness, including 5+ years leading global or enterprise-wide initiatives.
• You’ve built and led high-impact programs in performance management, career development, internal mobility, and early career talent.
• You bring deep experience in org design and workforce planning with a track record of aligning structure to strategy.
• You’re data-minded and fluent in using insights to guide prioritization, simplify systems, and improve outcomes.
• You’re highly skilled in HR platforms like Workday and understand how to make them work for employees and managers.
• You lead with ownership, curiosity, and a drive for simplicity—known for solving problems, building strong teams, and making things better every day.
• Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Organizational Development, or related field.
  
  

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. 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, and this year we became a billion-dollar business. Our growth is real, 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. 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.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Director

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Human Resources

• Industries

  Software Development

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