Payroll Product Strategy & Compliance

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 a Senior Payroll Product Strategic Lead you will lead complex, high-impact payroll product initiatives that sit at the intersection of global compliance, product strategy, and operational scalability. You’ll drive cross-functional product execution from discovery to delivery—ensuring we launch compliant, automated, and future-proof payroll features in global markets.

In this role, you will take full ownership of strategic product workstreams with a compliance lens—collaborating closely with Engineering, Legal, Operations, and Data teams to align requirements, remove blockers, and ensure product decisions support both customer needs and regulatory requirements. You will also play a key role in prioritising work and raising the standard of how compliance is embedded into product delivery at Remote.

What you bring

• 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.

Key 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.

Practicals

• You'll report to: Senior Manager - GP Strateg