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About the Role
Payroll accuracy is critical. This role leads the Global Payroll Compliance function, embedding Product Compliance experts within R&D to ensure accuracy, manage regulatory requirements, and shape product development across premium markets. It's a build and run role, defining the team's operating model and accountability in partnership with corporate Compliance.
Responsibilities
- Lead and coach Product Compliance leads embedded in each premium Global Payroll country.
- Build the career path for the Product Compliance function into new markets.
- Formalize the Product Compliance operating model, defining independent decisions, sign-offs, and escalation paths in partnership with Corporate Compliance.
- Own regulatory monitoring and the global compliance roadmap, ensuring visibility into gaps and changes.
- Define processes for documenting and specifying regulatory changes.
- Work with country Product Leads to proactively address compliance issues.
- Own local quality reviews, audit preparation, and remediation across all markets.
- Drive diagnosis of payroll incidents with local compliance experts.
- Act as an executive connective layer between Product Compliance and R&D, TaxOps, Support, Implementation, Legal, and Sales/GTM.
- Build and maintain accurate Help Center articles, country guides, and regulatory notices.
- Coordinate all year-end deliverables for each market, including statutory filings, declarations, and deadlines.
Requirements
- 12+ years of experience in payroll, tax, or regulatory compliance.
- Meaningful people-leadership experience managing distributed subject-matter experts across multiple countries or jurisdictions.
- Proven ability to operate within a product and engineering organization.
- Comfortable writing specs, reviewing designs, and participating in engineering rituals.
- Working knowledge of payroll compliance across at least some of our premium markets (Canada, UK, Ireland, Netherlands, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, France, India).
- Strong systems thinking to build a consistent operating model across diverse countries.
- Comfort with ambiguity in defining a new leadership layer and operating model.
- Excellent stakeholder management across Product, Engineering, TaxOps, Legal, Compliance, and GTM.
- High ownership mindset, accountable for compliance outcomes.
- Strong alignment with leadership principles, particularly Go and See, and Challenge Each Other Directly.
Skills
- Payroll compliance
- Tax compliance
- Regulatory compliance
- People leadership
- Product development
- Specification writing
- Design review
- Engineering rituals
- Systems thinking
- Stakeholder management
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Content creation
- Project coordination
Location
- London
- Canada
- UK
- India
- Singapore
- Australia
- Germany
- France
- Ireland
- Netherlands
- New Zealand
Work Type
- Distributed
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Director
- 12+ years
Equal Opportunity
- If you don't meet every qualification listed, we still encourage you to apply. Skills and experiences can show up in many forms, and we value diverse perspectives and backgrounds.