Global Payroll Policy & Compliance Lead

About Remote

Remote is solving global remote organizations’ biggest challenge: employing anyone anywhere compliantly. We make it possible for businesses big and small to employ a global team by handling global payroll, benefits, taxes, and compliance. Check out remote.com/how-it-works to learn more or if you’re interested in adding to the mission, scroll down to apply now.

Not only do we encourage folks from all ethnic groups, genders, sexuality, age, abilities, disability status and any other under-represented group to apply, but we prioritize a sense of belonging. We have 4 ERGs (Women, Disability, Queer, Minorities in Tech) who meet regularly with the People team. During your interviews and beyond, we ask & encourage anybody who needs an accommodation to request one from their recruiter.

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All of our positions are fully remote. You do not have to relocate to join us!

What this job can offer you

As the Global Payroll Policy & Compliance Lead, you will build and own automated compliance tracking frameworks and real-time compliance dashboards, ensuring payroll operations and product development remain aligned with global regulations.

This role is critical in translating complex regulatory updates into actionable insights for Product, Engineering, Payroll Operations, and Risk & Compliance. Your work will ensure compliance is proactively embedded into our payroll systems, mitigating risks, and supporting business growth in an evolving regulatory landscape.

What you bring

• Extensive experience in global payroll product compliance, employment law, tax compliance, or payroll operations.
• Strong understanding of global payroll regulations, tax laws, CBAs, and social security policies.
• Experience in legislation tracking, regulatory intelligence, or compliance implementation across multiple jurisdictions.
• Proven ability to design automated compliance tracking frameworks and compliance dashboards for real-time monitoring of payroll risks and legislative updates.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with experience working cross-functionally between Product, Engineering, Payroll Operations, and Risk teams.
• Highly data-driven, proficient in compliance tracking tools, reporting software, and automation frameworks (e.g SQL, Google Scripts, Notion).
• Detail-oriented, with the ability to analyse legal documents and translate them into clear, actionable product and operational recommendations.
• Experience in payroll technology or payroll system compliance (a plus).
• Writes and speaks fluent English
• It's not required to have experience working remotely, but considered a plus.

Key Responsibilities

Compliance Monitoring & Implementation

• Design automated compliance tracking frameworks, ensuring proactive identification of legal changes across multiple jurisdictions to ensure all regulatory changes are documented and actioned efficiently.
• Work closely with Legal and RiskCom teams to monitor and analyse global payroll regulations, including tax laws, employment regulations, CBAs, social security policies, and real-time payroll reporting mandates.
• Work closely with RiskCom & Ops teams to ensure legislative updates are reviewed and incorporated into payroll operations.
• Maintain centralised tracking tools and databases to ensure all regulatory changes are documented and actioned efficiently.
• Work closely with the Product Strategic Lead to ensure regulatory changes are seamlessly integrated into payroll technology and system updates.
• Provide executive briefings, compliance reports, and stakeholder updates to ensure leadership has full visibility of regulatory risks.
• Partner with internal risk teams to ensure that compliance tracking aligns with SOC2, GDPR, and other global regulatory standards.

Research & Strategy: Informing Payroll Product Innovation

• Conduct deep-dive research into complex payroll legislation topics, such as CBAs, employment tax reforms, minimum wage indexing, and social security policy changes.
• Develop white papers, regulatory summaries, and internal guidance to help teams navigate complex payroll compliance environments.

Practicals

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