Senior Global Payroll Manager

About Mixpanel

Mixpanel is an event analytics platform for builders who need answers from their data at their fingertips—no SQL required. When everyone in the organization can see and learn from the impact of their work on product, marketing, and company revenue metrics, they are poised to make better decisions.

Over 9,000 paid customers, including companies like Netflix, Pinterest, Sweetgreen, and Samsara, use Mixpanel to understand their customers and measure progress. Our commitment is to provide the most comprehensive and reliable analytics platform accessible and trusted by all.

About the Team

Mixpanel’s Global Payroll team ensures every employee across the U.S., Spain, the U.K., France, India, and Singapore is paid accurately, timely, and in full compliance with local statutory requirements. Currently a small but high-impact function supported by a U.S.

-based Payroll Analyst, the team manages end-to-end payroll operations, prepares and reviews payroll accounting entries, and partners closely with our business partners to streamline processes and enhance our systems. We take pride in delivering a seamless employee experience—removing payroll concerns so our teams can focus on doing their best work. As we continue to grow globally, payroll remains a trusted, employee-centric partner dedicated to operational excellence and continuous improvement.

About the Role

The Senior Global Payroll Manager will own and oversee global payroll operations across all entities, ensuring accurate, timely, and compliant payroll delivery for all employees worldwide. This role will provide strategic leadership for payroll administration, systems, compliance, and reporting, while also building scalable processes that support the company’s growth.

Reporting to the Controller, this leader will act as the senior subject matter expert for payroll, partnering closely with Accounting, HR, Legal, and IT to deliver excellence in payroll operations. The Senior Global Payroll Manager will lead, mentor, and develop the payroll team, drive process improvement and automation initiatives, and ensure payroll remains a trusted, well-controlled function within Finance.

Responsibilities

• Own and oversee the timely processing of global payroll for all employees, ensuring compliance with local, state, and international regulations.
• Oversee accurate processing of new hires, terminations, pay changes, bonuses, commissions, and statutory benefits across all jurisdictions.
• Develop and enforce scalable policies, processes, and internal controls, maintaining global regulatory compliance and SOX readiness.
• Manage vendor relationships with payroll providers, driving accountability for quality, compliance, and cost effectiveness.
• Coordinate with payroll providers on required filings, payments, tax updates, and compliance nuances across the Americas, EMEA, and APAC. Manage payroll registrations for new jurisdictions, ensuring accurate documentation, login details, and deactivation steps.
• Drive automation and process improvement initiatives, enhancing scalability, efficiency, and accuracy across payroll operations.
• Oversee the payroll accounting process, reviewing and approving payroll-related journal entries, reconciliations, and flux analyses prepared by the Payroll Analyst.
• Partner with Accounting to ensure all close activities are completed accurately and on time; develop dashboards and KPIs to provide leadership insights.
• Lead and support audit readiness for all payroll-related audits (internal, external, and government), ensuring accurate documentation and successful outcomes.
• Lead payroll projects including system implementations, global compliance expansion, and compliance initiatives.
• Build, mentor, and develop a high-performing payroll team, fostering accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Act as a strategic advisor to the Controller and Finance leadership on payroll implications of organizational decisions.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Accounting, HR, Legal, and IT to align payroll strategy with company goals.
• Develop and maintain payroll policies, processes and related internal controls and maintaining global regulatory…