Director, Global Payroll Services

Overview

Job Description

Responsibilities

• - Define and execute the overarching strategy for the Global Payroll Services division, ensuring alignment with the company’s global business objectives.
• - Lead the development and scaling of the services division to support the company’s rapid growth and expansion into new regions & service offerings.
• - Act as a thought leader within the organisation, driving innovation, transformation, and best-in-class service delivery across global payroll support services.
• - Foster strong collaboration with cross-functional teams including Payroll Operations, Compliance, Legal, Tax, and Implementation to ensure integrated and efficient service delivery.
• - Drive the development and growth of the global payroll services team, ensuring the team structure and capabilities align with current and future business needs.
• - Lead efforts to build a continuous improvement & high-performance culture within the division, focusing on talent development, leadership coaching, and employee engagement.
• - Build strong relationships with internal stakeholders, facilitating collaboration and alignment between service teams and other business functions.
• - Strong collaboration with our Product team to improve the overall user experience on payroll
• - Directing and Supporting the growth of the Implementation Team

Required Skills

• - Ideally extensive experience in a managing large in payroll or benefits industry and ideally in a growing start-up environment
• - Previous experience in a hyper-growth, tech start up that you specifically scaled into a large payroll operations is crucial
• - Clear understanding and experience on how automation, integration and scaling can directly impact workload
• - Ability to adapt to a fast-paced, international work environment with a passion for making an impact.
• - Familiarity on the change that occurs in a start-up in the first four years and comfortable with that
• - You are passionate about the dignity of work, you are a kind leader, and you ask yourself, ''what can I do to remote mundane and manual work for my team?''
• - You are passionate about growth and make data-driven, well-informed decisions.
• - Team player with the ability to work independently and take own responsibility
• - Is a productivity geek and will constantly think of ways to improve and speed up their work
• - Writes and speaks fluent English
• - It's not required to have experience working remotely, but is considered a plus

Benefits

• - Work from anywhere
• - Unlimited personal time off (minimum 4 weeks)
• - Quarterly company-wide day off for self care
• - 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