Director, Global Payroll Product Compliance

Responsibilities

• Own regulatory monitoring and the global compliance roadmap.
• Ensure every market has clear visibility into compliance gaps and upcoming regulatory changes, with a defined process to document and spec them, and work closely with country Product Leads to get ahead of issues.
• Ensure global payroll accuracy.
• Be the executive connective layer between Product Compliance on the one side and R&D, TaxOps, Support, Implementation, Legal, and Sales/GTM on the other.
• Own Help Center articles and communications.

Location

London - the team you'll lead is distributed across our premium Global Payroll markets (Canada, UK, India, Singapore, Australia, Germany, France) What you'll do 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 - what's decided independently, what requires sign-off, and the escalation path for the rest - in partnership with our second-line Corporate Compliance function.

Own local quality reviews, audit preparation, and remediation across every market, and drive diagnosis with local compliance experts when payroll incidents occur. Partner across the business.

Build and maintain accurate, actionable content - help articles, country guides, regulatory notices - in partnership with PMs and Customer Education, so customers always have a reliable compliance experience. Define compliance year-end best practices. Year-end is a deadline that cannot slip - coordinate all year-end deliverables for each market (statutory filings, declarations, deadlines, and cross-functional dependencies) end-to-end, so customers close the fiscal year without surprises. What you'll need 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, not just alongside it - comfortable writing specs, reviewing designs, and participating in engineering rituals. Working knowledge of payroll compliance across at least some of our premium markets (Canada, UK, Ireland, Netherlands, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, France, India). Breadth across several is a strong plus.

Strong systems thinking

Able to build one consistent operating model across countries with different regulatory regimes and different levels of product maturity.

Comfort with ambiguity

this is a new leadership layer for an existing team, so you'll be defining the operating model as much as running it. Excellent stakeholder management across Product, Engineering, TaxOps, Legal, Compliance, and GTM.

High ownership mindset

Accountable for compliance outcomes, not just for managing the process around them. Strong alignment with our leadership principles, in particular Go and See, and Challenge Each Other Directly. If you don't meet every qualification listed, we still encourage you to apply. Skills and experiences can show up in many forms, and we value diverse perspectives and backgrounds.

About Rippling Rippling gives businesses one place to run HR, IT, and Finance. It brings together all of the workforce systems that are normally scattered across a company, like payroll, expenses, benefits, and computers. For the first time ever, you can manage and automate every part of the employee lifecycle in a single system. Take onboarding, for example. With Rippling, you can hire a new employee anywhere in the world and set up their payroll, corporate card, computer, benefits, and even third-party apps like Slack and Microsoft 365—all within 90 seconds. Based in San Francisco, CA, Rippling has raised $1.4B+ from the world’s top investors—including Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, Sequoia, Greenoaks, and Bedrock—and was named one of America's best startup employers by Forbes. We prioritize candidate safety. Please be aware that all official communication will only be sent from @ Rippling.com addresses.