Indirect Tax Researcher

What You'll Do

We are looking for a Researcher to join the Property Tax Content team, focusing on researching and maintaining property tax jurisdiction, assessor, collector, and depreciation content, and supporting the team's shift toward AI-enabled compliance research. This role involves developing foundational property tax research expertise, strong attention to detail, and contributing to the accuracy and reliability of the content that powers the team's AI-enabled workflows.

What Your Responsibilities Will Be

• Research, monitor, translate, and interpret assessor and collector notices, depreciation schedule updates, and jurisdiction rule changes; evaluate content accuracy and make sound decisions on property tax content updates and actions.
• Maintain existing assessor master data, collector addresses, depreciation tables, forms, and filing deadlines for assigned jurisdictions by continuously monitoring changes at the state and local level.
• Contact assessing and collecting jurisdictions and authorities directly to source forms, deadlines, and compliance requirements.
• Document research findings clearly and consistently in required formats and tools.
• Conduct web and subscription-service research and stay active on property tax and local government news to catch emerging changes early.
• Help build and test simple, repeatable AI-enabled research workflows — such as structured prompts, checklists, or validation steps — that turn property tax content into reliable training material for Avalara's AI research agents.
• Validate AI-generated property tax content against primary assessor and collector sources, and flag inaccuracies or content gaps for senior researchers to resolve.
• Share reusable research templates, prompts, or workflows with the team so improvements you make benefit others, not just your own research.
• Work and communicate effectively with team members to accomplish tasks in a timely, efficient, and productive manner.

What You'll Need to be Successful

Required

• Graduation (bachelor’s degree) plus a minimum of 2 years of relevant experience.
• Excellent logical and analytical skills.
• Strong English writing and verbal communication skills.
• Excellent time management and organizational skills.
• Ability to work well in a team environment.
• Demonstrated aptitude or hands-on experience using AI tools to build simple, repeatable research workflows (e.g., structured prompts, checklists, templates), with the ability to explain what you built and how it works.

Preferred

• Background or coursework in accounting, finance, real estate, or a related field.
• Prior exposure to property tax, assessment, valuation, or real estate compliance research.
• Experience building or contributing to an AI-enabled research or validation workflow that was adopted by others on a team.
• Familiarity with how large language models or AI research agents use source content, and comfort translating research judgment into structured, reusable formats.

Avalara is an AI-first Company

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.

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.