Director, Global Payroll Compliance

Overview

In this role you will lead the Global Payroll Compliance function across premium markets, embedding product compliance experts within R&D to shape and validate payroll features. You’ll define operating models, monitor regulatory changes, and ensure payroll accuracy across countries. You’ll partner with R&D, TaxOps, Legal, Support, and GTM to solve cross-functional regulatory challenges. The role blends build and run responsibilities, with a focus on scalable, compliant payroll experiences and year-end governance.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop distributed Product Compliance leads across premium GP countries
• Formalise the operating model for Product Compliance within and beyond R&D
• Own regulatory monitoring and create a global compliance roadmap with proactive issue mitigation
• Ensure global payroll accuracy through local quality reviews, audits, and remediation
• Act as executive liaison between Product Compliance, R&D, TaxOps, Legal, Compliance, and GTM
• Create and maintain Help Center content, country guides, and regulatory notices with PMs/Customer Education
• Define and coordinate year-end best practices and cross-functional deliverables across markets

Key requirements

• 12+ years of experience in payroll, tax, or regulatory compliance
• Proven leadership of distributed subject-matter experts across multiple countries
• Ability to operate inside a product and engineering organization (writing specs, reviewing designs)
• Working knowledge of payroll compliance in multiple premium markets (Canada, UK, Ireland, Netherlands, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, France, India)
• Strong systems thinking to unify operating models across regulatory regimes
• Comfort with ambiguity in establishing a new leadership layer
• Excellent stakeholder management across Product, Engineering, TaxOps, Legal, Compliance, and GTM
• High ownership mindset with accountability for compliance outcomes
• Alignment with leadership principles (Go and See; Challenge Each Other Directly)

• stakeholder management
• leadership and people development
• ownership and accountability
• payroll compliance knowledge across multiple jurisdictions
• regulatory monitoring and risk assessment
• experience writing specifications and working with engineering teams

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