We encourage every member of the Remote team to bring their talents, experiences and culture to the table to help us build the best-in-class HR platform.
As the Global Payroll Policy & Compliance Lead, you will build and own automated compliance tracking frameworks and real-time compliance dashboards, ensuring payroll operations and product development remain aligned with global regulations.
This role is critical in translating complex regulatory updates into actionable insights for Product, Engineering, Payroll Operations, and Risk & Compliance. Your work will ensure compliance is proactively embedded into our payroll systems, mitigating risks, and supporting business growth in an evolving regulatory landscape.
About the RoleAt Remote, compliance isn’t just a box to tick — it’s the foundation of trust for our customers. We’re looking for a Global Payroll Policy & Compliance Lead to help us transform how compliance is tracked, automated, and embedded into payroll systems worldwide.
🎯 What You’ll Do- Design and run automated frameworks that track payroll legislation, tax law, CBAs, and social security changes across multiple countries.
- Translate complex, country-specific compliance requirements into clear technical specifications for payroll engine development.
- Partner with Product Specialists, Engineers, and Payroll Ops to embed compliance into payroll systems — from requirements gathering through testing and automation-driven validation.
- Build real-time dashboards, alerting tools, and reporting pipelines so compliance data is always accessible and actionable.
- Educate product teams on legislation, and ensure compliance changes are implemented correctly through structured testing and automation-first validation.
- Deliver clear compliance reports and risk updates to leadership, enabling visibility and confident decision-making.
- Experience in global payroll compliance, employment law, or tax compliance with exposure to multi-country regulations.
- Strong technical skills in automation and data integration (SQL, Google Scripts, APIs, Zapier/Make or similar).
- Proven ability to translate legal and payroll requirements into system logic and technical specifications.
- Hands-on experience with UAT and automation-based validation to ensure compliance accuracy.
- Comfort working cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, Risk, and Payroll Ops.
- Clear, concise communication skills in English.
👉 If you’re passionate about turning payroll compliance into scalable, automated systems, we’d love to hear from you.
Practicals- You'll report to: Manager, GP Strategy & Compliance
- Team: RiskCom (GP Strategy & Compliance)
- Location: For this position we welcome everyone to apply, but we will prioritise applications from the EMEA regions
- Start date: As soon as possible
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.
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.
Application process- Interview with recruiter (30 minutes)
- Interview with the team (1 hour and 15 minutes)
- Bar Raiser Interview (30 minutes)
- Offer and Prior employment verification check
- 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
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- Please fill out the form below and upload your CV with a PDF format.
- We kindly ask you to submit your application and CV in English, as this is the standardised language we use here at Remote.
- 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.
Not only do we encourage folks from all ethnic groups, genders, sexuality, age, abilities, disability status and any other under-represented group to apply, but we prioritize a sense of belonging. We have 4 ERGs (Women, Disability, Queer, Minorities in Tech) who meet regularly with the People team. During your interviews and beyond, we ask & encourage anybody who needs an accommodation to request one from their recruiter.
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.
