Remote

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Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Remote is solving modern organizations’ biggest challenge – navigating global employment compliantly with ease. As a Payroll Compliance Expert, you will own payroll compliance for your country or region, translating complex rules into scalable processes and ensuring compliance across the organization's global payroll platform. Responsibilities • Own compliance for your country or region • Be the accountable expert for payroll compliance in your jurisdiction(s) • Ensure local requirements are correctly interpreted, documented, and implemented across processes, systems, and customer workflows • Translate statutory rules, payroll logic, tax calculations, thresholds, and edge cases into structured requirements for Product and Engineering • Partner with Product Design to create user experiences that are compliant, intuitive, and auditable • Review specifications, test logic, and validate product outputs to ensure legislative accuracy • Own and deliver multi-country or high-risk audits from planning through remediation • Establish audit frameworks that scale across new and existing jurisdictions • Identify root causes and drive systemic improvements • Serve as the primary escalation point for compliance issues in your region, supporting Incident Managers to resolve incidents swiftly and effectively • Partner cross-functionally to resolve incidents quickly and implement permanent corrective and preventative actions • Create clear, scalable, and documented processes for payroll compliance operations • Develop controls, SOPs, and monitoring mechanisms to ensure ongoing adherence • Align global policies with regional requirements and drive consistency across markets • Build training materials, guidance, and rules documentation to upskill internal teams • Deliver quarterly enablement, lead learning sessions, and coach Specialists and Leads • Maintain high-quality documentation for compliance rules, workflows, and system logic • Partner with Product, Engineering, Legal, Support, and Customer Success to ensure compliance is embedded into decision-making • Achieve ≥90% stakeholder satisfaction by being responsive, proactive, and solutions-oriented • Support go-to-market, customer escalations and expansion initiatives with clear compliance guidance Skills • Deep expertise in payroll, employment compliance for your country/region — and a strong understanding of how legislation translates into payroll calculations and system logic • Proven record leading audits, regulatory reviews, or country-level compliance programs • Experience partnering with technical teams to convert statutory rules into product requirements • Strong communicator capable of influencing stakeholders across Product, Engineering, Legal, Support, and Senior Leadership • Confident investigator with sound judgment in high-risk or sensitive scenarios • Mentor and coach who grows the capability of the team around you • Systems thinker who designs frameworks, documentation, processes, and controls that scale • Comfortable operating in an async, fast-changing, fully remote environment Benefits • Work from anywhere • Flexible paid time off • 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 Company Overview • Remote is an employment, payroll, and HR platform for modern, distributed businesses. It was founded in 2019, and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is https://remote.com.