Payroll Product Strategy & Compliance

Summary

Join Remote as a Senior Payroll Product Strategic Lead and lead complex payroll product initiatives focused on global compliance, product strategy, and operational scalability. Drive cross-functional product execution, ensuring compliant and automated payroll features in global markets. Take full ownership of strategic product workstreams, collaborating with Engineering, Legal, Operations, and Data teams. Prioritize work and improve compliance within product delivery. This role requires significant experience in leading complex product initiatives with payroll and compliance components across multiple countries. You will need a deep understanding of global payroll operations, statutory requirements, and strong cross-functional leadership skills. Remote offers a fully remote position with competitive compensation and benefits.

Requirements

• Significant experience leading complex product initiatives with payroll and compliance components, ideally across multiple countries or regions
• Deep understanding of global payroll operations, statutory requirements, tax and reporting obligations, and how these translate into product design
• Strong cross-functional leadership skills—you influence collaboratively and drive alignment across Legal, Engineering, Product, and Ops
• Experience owning product workstreams end-to-end: from regulatory analysis and workflow mapping to feature delivery and iteration
• Hands-on familiarity with systems thinking, automation logic, and tooling ( HRIS/payroll integrations, SQL, scripts, dashboards)
• Excellent communicator—able to write clear specs, surface trade-offs, and keep stakeholders aligned and informed
• Experience working in fast-paced, global environments where compliance is a critical enabler, not a blocker

Responsibilities

• Lead Strategic Product Initiatives
• Own the delivery of complex payroll product features where compliance is a core component—ensuring regulatory alignment and operational scalability
• Partner with Engineering and Product to translate requirements into functional specs, workflows, and solutions that meet compliance needs without sacrificing product experience
• Drive end-to-end execution of projects, managing timelines, risks, and stakeholder communication
• Compliance Enablement within Product Design
• Collaborate with Legal and GP Compliance Analysts to understand regulatory obligations and map them into scalable product logic
• Identify compliance risks, gaps, or inefficiencies in current systems and lead cross-functional projects to address them
• Act as a compliance-aware product strategist—ensuring our payroll products are future-ready, automated, and globally aligned
• Cross-Functional Influence & Leadership
• Serve as the go-to expert for compliance-related product decisions—aligning internal stakeholders around solutions that balance risk, efficiency, and user experience
• Help define and evolve frameworks, templates, and standards that streamline how compliance is handled within product development
• Contribute to strategic planning, roadmap prioritisation, and internal documentation that supports long-term scalability

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