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About the Role
Factory is seeking a Payroll Specialist to manage payroll operations end-to-end and contribute to the finance and accounting team. This role involves ensuring accurate, compliant, and timely payments for employees and contractors, while developing scalable systems, controls, and documentation. The specialist will collaborate with Finance, People, and leadership to establish and optimize payroll functions.
Responsibilities
- Run full-cycle payroll for US and international employees, including multi-state payroll.
- Process commissions, draws, bonuses, equity vesting, severance, and other variable pay with appropriate tax withholding.
- Handle compensation changes, new hires, terminations, and off-cycle payments.
- Manage payroll tax registrations, deposits, filings, and notices at federal, state, and local levels.
- Coordinate with providers on international payroll tax.
- Manage international payroll and EOR providers, and establish payroll for new country hires.
- Administer 401(k) contributions, benefits deductions, garnishments, and contractor payments.
- Collaborate with Accounting on payroll journal entries, accruals, and month-end close.
- Handle quarter-end and year-end payroll activities, including W-2 processing.
- Develop scalable processes, controls, and documentation for payroll.
- Liaise with People, Finance, Tax, and Legal to ensure employee data accuracy and address payroll inquiries.
- Utilize AI and automation to reduce manual work in reconciliations and reporting.
Requirements
- 5+ years of payroll experience, including running multi-state US payroll at a fast-growing company.
- Hands-on experience with payroll platforms such as Rippling, Workday, or ADP.
- Strong knowledge of US payroll tax, including federal, state, and local withholding, filings, and year-end reporting.
- Experience processing commissions, bonuses, and equity compensation (RSUs, ISOs, NSOs).
- Experience with international payroll and EOR providers.
- Strong attention to detail and good judgment with confidential information.
- Comfortable working in a fast-moving startup environment where processes are built as needed.
- Clear communicator skilled in collaborating with Finance, People, Tax, and Legal teams.
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, HR, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Skills
- Payroll platforms (Rippling, Workday, ADP)
- US payroll tax
- International payroll
- EOR providers
- Commissions processing
- Bonus processing
- Equity compensation processing
- AI and automation tools
Location
- San Francisco
Work Type
- Onsite
Experience Level
- 5+ years of payroll experience
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, HR, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
About the Company
- Factory's mission is to create a world where software builds and improves itself.
- We develop the platform for self-improving software development, enabling autonomous software factories for large enterprise engineering teams.
- Our platform is used by companies like Nvidia, Blackstone, Royal Bank of Canada (RBC), Palo Alto Networks, Adobe, and T-Mobile for continuous code shipping, PR reviews, testing, and deployment.
- Factory has raised $200M in 2026 at a $5B valuation, with total funding exceeding $400M.
- We are supported by prominent investors and operators including Khosla Ventures, Sequoia, Blackstone, Ali Ghodsi (CEO of Databricks), and Frank Slootman (Former CEO of Snowflake).