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Director, Global Payroll Product Compliance

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Londonfull-timePosted 2w ago

About the role

Director-level role owning the Global Payroll Compliance function across premium markets, embedding Product Compliance experts in-country, defining operating model, regulatory monitoring, and ensuring payroll accuracy. Located in London with a distributed team across Canada, UK, India, Singapore, Australia, Germany, France.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the team: Coach and manage the Product Compliance leads embedded in each premium GP country and build the career path for this function as it extends into new markets.
  • Own the operating model: Formalise how Product Compliance works inside and outside of R&D, including decision autonomy, sign-off requirements, and escalation paths in partnership with Corporate Compliance.
  • Own regulatory monitoring and the global compliance roadmap: Ensure visibility into compliance gaps and upcoming regulatory changes, document and spec them, and collaborate with country Product Leads to mitigate issues.
  • Ensure global payroll accuracy: Oversee local quality reviews, audit preparation, and remediation across markets; drive diagnosis with local compliance experts for payroll incidents.
  • Partner across the business: Serve as the executive connective layer between Product Compliance, R&D, TaxOps, Support, Implementation, Legal, and GTM.
  • Own Help Center articles and communications: Create and maintain up-to-date compliance content (articles, guides, notices) with PMs and Customer Education.
  • Define compliance year-end best practices: Coordinate all year-end deliverables end-to-end across markets to ensure a smooth fiscal year close.

Qualifications

  • 12+ years of experience in payroll, tax, or regulatory compliance, including meaningful people-leadership experience managing distributed subject-matter experts across multiple countries or jurisdictions.
  • Proven ability to operate inside a product and engineering organization, including writing specs, reviewing designs, and participating in engineering rituals.
  • Working knowledge of payroll compliance across at least some premium markets (Canada, UK, Ireland, Netherlands, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, France, India); breadth across several is a strong plus.
  • Strong systems thinking: ability to build one consistent operating model across countries with different regulatory regimes and product maturity.
  • Comfort with ambiguity: defining the operating model while running it.
  • Excellent stakeholder management across Product, Engineering, TaxOps, Legal, Compliance, and GTM.
  • High ownership mindset: accountable for compliance outcomes, not just process management.
  • Strong alignment with leadership principles, especially Go and See, and Challenge Each Other Directly.

Skills

Required:Payroll complianceLeadership of distributed teamsProduct and engineering collaboration
Last updated Oct 7, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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