What You'll Do Avalara is an AI-first company. You will use AI to enhance productivity, quality, innovation, and customer value. AI is embedded in our workflows, and products. Success at Avalara requires embracing AI as an essential capability, not an optional tool. You will focus on adding new content into the application which provides real-time tax determination for Motor Fuel, Sales and Use, Tobacco and other United States and Canadian tax types. The researcher can read and translate tax instructions, laws, and statutes. After which they can convert the information into detailed tax rules using a knowledge of database table structure to update the application. You will report to Manager, Indirect Tax What Your Responsibilities Will Be Research tax law, reporting, and remittance requirements to keep tax products in compliance with state, county, and local jurisdiction tax laws. Recommend and contribute to research projects that expand existing content based on market/environmental/legislative changes. Monitor legislation, administrative decisions, and judicial decisions for changes in transaction taxes in assigned jurisdictional or topical areas. Apply taxability and exemption rule changes into the application while providing concise documentation of the changes. Validate results of test transactions pre-production based on tax research. Build productive working relationships with state, county, and city government taxing authorities and legislative research units to maximize product quality. Consider methods to further automate existing processes. What You'll Need to be Successful Enjoy technology and have interest to serve as analyst for complex tax research efforts related to taxation of sales and use, tobacco, motor fuels, and other commodities in the United States and Canada. 2+ years of experience researching tax laws – ability to locate, understand, and explain complex tax requirements and scenarios from a functional and technical perspective. 2+ Experience with conditional statements or formulas in Excel and familiarity with Boolean logic. Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, law, economics, or related field. A masters degree or equivalent. #LI-Remote This is a remote position. 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. What You Need To Know About Avalara 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.