Payroll Strategy & Compliance Expert

Job Description: • Own compliance for your country or region • Ensure local requirements are correctly interpreted, documented, and implemented across processes, systems, and customer workflows. • Translate statutory rules, payroll logic, tax calculations, thresholds, and edge cases into structured requirements for Product and Engineering. • Partner with Product Design to create user experiences that are compliant, intuitive, and auditable. • Review specifications, test logic, and validate product outputs to ensure legislative accuracy. • Own and deliver multi-country or high-risk audits from planning through remediation. • Establish audit frameworks that scale across new and existing jurisdictions. • Identify root causes and drive systemic improvements. • Serve as the primary escalation point for compliance issues in your region, supporting Incident Managers to resolve incidents swiftly and effectively. • Partner cross-functionally to resolve incidents quickly and implement permanent corrective and preventative actions. • Create clear, scalable, and documented processes for payroll compliance operations. • Develop controls, SOPs, and monitoring mechanisms to ensure ongoing adherence. • Align global policies with regional requirements and drive consistency across markets. • Build training materials, guidance, and rules documentation to upskill internal teams. • Deliver quarterly enablement, lead learning sessions, and coach Specialists and Leads. • Maintain high-quality documentation for compliance rules, workflows, and system logic. • Partner with Product, Engineering, Legal, Support, and Customer Success to ensure compliance is embedded into decision-making. • Achieve ≥90% stakeholder satisfaction by being responsive, proactive, and solutions-oriented. • Support go-to-market, customer escalations and expansion initiatives with clear compliance guidance. Requirements: • Deep expertise in payroll, employment compliance for your country/region — and a strong understanding of how legislation translates into payroll calculations and system logic. • Proven record leading audits, regulatory reviews, or country-level compliance programs. • Experience partnering with technical teams to convert statutory rules into product requirements. • Strong communicator capable of influencing stakeholders across Product, Engineering, Legal, Support, and Senior Leadership. • Confident investigator with sound judgment in high-risk or sensitive scenarios. • Mentor and coach who grows the capability of the team around you. • Systems thinker who designs frameworks, documentation, processes, and controls that scale. • Comfortable operating in an async, fast-changing, fully remote environment. Benefits: • work from anywhere • flexible paid time off • flexible working hours (we are async) • 16 weeks paid parental leave • mental health support services • stock options • learning budget • home office budget & IT equipment • budget for local in-person social events or co-working spaces Apply tot his job