Payroll Product Strategy & Compliance

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 Strategy & Compliance
• Team: Payroll RiskCom - Payroll Strategy & Compliance
• Team size: 14
• Location: For this position we welcome everyone to apply, but we will prioritise applications from the following locations as we encourage our teams to diversify;
• Start date: As soon as possible

Remote Compensation Philosophy

Remote's Total Rewards philosophy is to ensure fair, unbiased compensation and fair equity pay along with competitive benefits in all locations in which we operate. We do not agree to or encourage cheap-labor practices and therefore we ensure to pay above in-location rates. We hope to inspire other companies to support global talent-hiring and bring local wealth to developing countries.

At first glance our salary bands seem quite wide - here is some context. At Remote we have international operations and a globally distributed workforce.  We use geo ranges to consider geographic pay differentials as part of our global compensation strategy to remain competitive in various markets while we hiring globally.

The base salary range for this full-time position is $122,200 - $137,500 USD. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level and location, and our job titles may span more than one career level. The actual base pay for the successful candidate in this role is dependent upon many factors such as location, transferable or job-related skills, work experience, relevant training, business needs, and market demands. The base salary range may be subject to change.

At Remote, we foster internal mobility as a key element of our culture of employee growth and development, supported by a compensation philosophy that guarantees pay equity and fairness. Therefore, all compensation changes associated with an internal move will be reviewed by the Total Rewards & People Enablement team on a case by case basis.

Application process

1. Interview with recruiter
2. Interview with future manager
3. Interview with team members (no managers present)

Benefits

How you’ll plan your day (and life)

We work async at Remote which means you can plan your schedule around your life (and not around meetings). Read more at remote.com/async.

You will be empowered to take ownership and be proactive. When in doubt you will default to action instead of waiting. Your life-work balance is important and you will be encouraged to put yourself and your family first, and fit work around your needs.

If that sounds like something you want, apply now!

How to apply

1. Please fill out the form below and upload your CV with a PDF format.
2. We kindly ask you to submit your application and CV in English, as this is the standardised language we use here at Remote.
3. If you don’t have an up to date CV but you are still interested in talking to us, please feel free to add a copy of your LinkedIn profile instead.

We will ask you to voluntarily tell us your pronouns at interview stage, and you will have the option to answer our anonymous demographic questionnaire when you apply below. As an equal employment opportunity employer it’s important to us that our workforce reflects people of all backgrounds, identities, and experiences and this data will help us to stay accountable. We thank you for providing this data, if you chose to.

At Remote, we embrace AI as a valuable tool while prioritizing human creativity and authenticity. We look forward to meeting candidates who balance innovation with genuine expertise and experience. To learn more about Remote's AI guidelines check see here. 

Please note we accept applications on an ongoing basis.