Director of Payroll

6 Months ago • 7 Years + • Administrative

Job Summary

Job Description

Duolingo seeks a Director of Payroll with 7+ years of experience in multi-state & global payroll, including management and public company experience. Must have expertise in payroll operations, regulatory requirements, SOX, and Workday. Strong communication, leadership, and problem-solving skills are essential.
Must have:
  • Payroll Operations
  • Regulatory Requirements
  • Public Company
  • Workday Experience
Good to have:
  • Certified Payroll
  • Workday Certified
  • Payroll Systems
  • Start-up Experience
Perks:
  • Holistic Well-being
  • Employee Benefits

Job Details

Our mission at Duolingo is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. It’s a big mission, and that’s where you come in!

At Duolingo, you’ll join a team that cares about educating our users, experimenting with big ideas, making fact-based decisions, and finding innovative solutions to complex problems. You’ll have limitless learning opportunities and daily collaborations with world-class minds — while doing work that’s both meaningful and fun.

Join our life-changing mission to develop education for our half a billion (and growing!) learners around the world. 

Read our blog to learn more.


  You will...

  • Champion our Culture: Bring energy, vision, and initiative to help us drive our culture forward by leading a “people first” payroll function.
  • Be the Leader: Lead payroll strategy and operations, ensuring that they result in timely, accurate, and compliant execution of payrolls, filings, reports, and audits.
  • Be the Specialist: Provide experienced guidance to establishing, evaluating, updating, and scaling processes and controls in conjunction with regulatory, business, and/or system updates.
  • Be a Strategic Partner: Collaborate with key partners to ensure the payroll operation serves their needs and vice versa.
  • Be Agile: Develop and execute decision-making and organizational change plans when identifying a need to improve part of the payroll operation.
  • Test Everything: Aim to establish a fail-proof system of controls, guardrails, and reporting to ensure that all payroll processes and integrations are accurate and compliant.
  • Ensure Compliance: Collaborate across the Finance, Accounting, and Legal teams to fulfill all vital compliance, auditing, and reporting requirements.
  • Build Relationships: Foster relationships internally and externally to ensure a diversity of knowledge and resources are considered to develop our payroll operations.
  • Provide ad hoc support to the People Team, as needed.

 

  You have...

  • Payroll and Management Experience. You have knowledge in payroll operations, regulatory requirements, and SOX, and have led and/or grown a payroll team.
  • Public Company Experience. You have been in a payroll management role for a public company that issues various types of equity.
  • Communication Skills. You demonstrate that you can communicate effectively across different groups to reach our goals.
  • Self-Awareness and Integrity. You demonstrate a strong understanding of the confidentiality and integrity that comes with leading payroll and other employee demographic data.

 

  Requirements...

  • Ability to work in or relocate to Pittsburgh, PA or New York, NY.
  • Minimum of bachelor’s degree and 7+ years of experience in payroll for a multi-state and global company, including management experience and experience in a public company with equity.
  • Detail-orientation, organizational, and project management skills that ensure that accuracy, efficiency, and compliance are optimized and objectives are created and met.
  • Proficient with Workday and related payroll, HRIS, and financial systems.
  • Experience implementing payroll systems.

 

  Exceptional candidates will have...

  • Certified Payroll Professional (CPP) certification.
  • Workday Certified Payroll Expert.
  • Experience implementing relevant systems and processes to serve a fast-growing start-up environment.
  • Experience bringing organization to teams and streamlining processes within organizations.
  • Experience working with 3rd Party Managed Payroll Service providers

Take a peek at how we care for our employees' holistic well-being with our benefits here.

We will do everything we can within reason to make sure that your interview takes place in an environment that fairly and accurately assesses your skills. If you need assistance or accommodation, please contact your recruiter.

Duolingo is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

By applying for this position your data will be processed as per the Duolingo Applicant Privacy Notice.

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About The Company

Duolingo is the world’s most popular way to learn a language. Our mission is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available.


Founded in 2011 by Luis von Ahn and Severin Hacker, Duolingo is the most downloaded education app in the history of the App Store and in 2019 became the top-grossing education app worldwide. The app has been awarded Apple's iPhone App of the Year and Android's Best of the Best.


Learning a new language used to be expensive; we believe it should be free. Over 1.2 billion people are learning a second language and most of them are learning English to improve their lives.


Learning a new language is hard; we believe it can be fun. We use bite-sized lessons that feel like playing a game to keep our learners motivated. 


With over 500 million learners we have unprecedented data insights on how people learn. Our teams of language learning scientists, machine learning engineers, and AI experts use this data to constantly improve our effectiveness. We’re building a future in which the highest-quality education is accessible to all. 


Duolingo has raised US $138 million from investors including Union Square Ventures, Capital G (formerly Google Capital), NewView Capital, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Drive Capital, Ashton Kutcher and Tim Ferriss.


Duolingo has been named to: BuiltIn's Best Places to Work (2023), Fast Company Best Workplaces for Innovators (2022), Fast Company 10 Most Innovative Education Company (2022), Best Machine Learning Startups for by Glassdoor (2020), Forbes' "Next Billion Dollar Startups" (2019), CNBC's Disruptor 50 (2018, 2019), Fortune's "Change the World" list (2019), TIME Magazine's Genius Companies (2018), Fast Company's "Most Innovative Companies" (2017, 2018, 2020), Inc.'s "Best Places to Work" (2018), Entrepreneur's "Top Company Cultures" (2018).

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