Avalara APAC · 1 month ago
Director, Product Management, Global Business, SAP
United States
Full-time
Remote
Director/Executive
$171K/yr - $282K/yr
15+ years expAvalara APAC is a leading company in cloud compliance solutions, and they are seeking a strategic leader for the role of Director of Product Management for SAP Integrations & Tax Technology. This position involves leading a team to drive product strategy, ensure successful implementation, and foster cross-functional collaboration within the SAP ecosystem.
Computer Software
Responsibilities
Lead a High-Performing Team: Manage, mentor, and grow a team of senior Product Managers and Tax Technologists, ensuring clear role accountability, alignment on goals, and frictionless collaboration
Drive Product Strategy & Roadmaps: Oversee the strategic direction for our SAP connectors. Ensure your PMs are effectively defining roadmaps, prioritizing initiatives based on business value, and executing against the Plan of Record (POR)
Ensure Implementation Reality: Empower your Tax Technologists to embed in customer and partner implementation workstreams, connecting product intent with real-world execution and identifying recurring patterns in complex deployments
Drive Cross-Functional Alignment: Serve as the leadership bridge across Engineering, Technical Program Management (TPMs), partner teams, and Support. Resolve escalations and ensure decision clarity between product scope and deployment realities
Own Business Outcomes: Define and track KPIs for the SAP integration domain. Own the accuracy of leadership reporting (SteerCo and Operational Dashboards) and present clear updates on delivery outcomes and business value
Customer & Partner Engagement: Act as an escalation point for product-level customer issues. Partner with Strategic Partner Managers (SPMs) to align Avalara roadmaps with SAP’s ecosystem roadmaps
Foster Continuous Improvement: Ensure insights gathered from the field by TTs are explicitly incorporated into the product prioritization discussions led by PMs, preventing rework and driving higher product quality
Qualification
Required
15+ years of experience in enterprise SaaS product management, tax technology, or software integrations, with at least 10+ years in a people leadership role managing senior individual contributors
Strong understanding of ERP ecosystems, specifically SAP, S4Hana (Public & Private), ECC, BTP, and the complexities of enterprise software deployments and integrations
Demonstrated success in owning product strategy, roadmap delivery, and driving measurable business impact (KPIs, revenue, adoption)
Experience defining clear roles, decision-making frameworks (e.g., RACI), and operating cadences for multidisciplinary teams
A track record of bridging the gap between high-level product strategy and the reality of complex, on-the-ground customer implementations
Strong storytelling and stakeholder management skills; able to align executive leadership, engineering, and external partners
Bachelor's degree in a related field (Business, Computer Science, Finance, etc.); advanced degrees are a plus
Experience using AI and AI-related technologies, ready to thrive here
Ability to apply AI every day to business challenges - improving efficiency, contributing solutions, and driving results for your team, our company, and our customers
Curiosity about new trends and best practices in AI and willingness to share knowledge with others
Benefits
Paid time off
Paid parental leave
Bonuses
Private medical insurance
Life insurance
Disability insurance
Inclusive culture and diversity
Employee-run resource groups, each with senior leadership and exec sponsorship
Company
Avalara APAC
Avalara is the agentic AI platform for global tax and compliance.
1001-5000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageCompany data provided by crunchbase