Rewards and Payroll Manager

Giga is building gigawatts of AI data centers to hasten a future of intelligence and abundance. We build data centers fast and at scale by combining the capabilities of an equipment supplier, engineering firm, general contractor, and real estate developer under one roof. Our team moves quickly and thinks practically. If you’re ready to make an impact in an industry that matters, we’re looking for people like you.

• The Pace: We’re building at a speed most companies talk about but never actually operate at. If you’ve been bored somewhere else, you won’t be here.
• The Impact :
  Every person at Giga touches the work that matters. No layers, no waiting for approval chains. You’ll see your fingerprints on what we ship.
• The Team: A team of operators defining the future of AI infrastructure. We recruit A-players from the most innovative companies in the world, and they choose Giga because the work here means more.
• The Moment : AI doesn’t run without power, and that’s us. Giga is the picks and shovels behind the AI revolution. This industry is about to explode, and you’ll be in the room where it’s already happening.

Giga is hiring a Sr. Manager, Total Rewards & Payroll to be the first dedicated owner of the employee rewards stack: payroll, benefits, compensation, and equity administration. Today, payroll sits inside a busy accounting team, benefits and compensation work is spread across People and Finance, equity administration sits with external counsel, and no single person is accountable for the whole system.

You will change that.

You will run payroll end to end for a growing, multi-state workforce: scheduled cycles, off-cycle corrections, per diems, bonuses, deductions, garnishments, and the day-to-day questions that come with hundreds of employees. You will own the controls around it, from pre-close reconciliation and payroll tax coordination with accounting to year-end processing and audit-ready records. You will operationalize benefits, from enrollment and eligibility through employee issues, broker and vendor management, renewals, and utilization, so employees understand and use what Giga offers.

And you will administer Giga’s compensation, incentive, and equity programs: maintaining salary bands with People leadership, supporting benchmarking, running bonus eligibility, calculations, communications, and payouts with a clean trail, and bringing equity administration in-house, owning grant records, vesting schedules, exercises, and reporting with support from external counsel.

You will not design Giga’s compensation philosophy or incentive architecture; those principles stay with company leadership. Your job is to turn them into programs and processes that operate reliably at scale, and to be the first line of defense on pay and rewards questions.

This role works at the center of Giga’s People and Finance teams. Payroll execution and controls stay tightly connected to Giga’s Controller and accounting team, and benefits direction and the compensation calendar run with People leadership. The reporting home for this role will be confirmed with the selected candidate. Either way, you will own the outcomes below end to end.

In your first 90 days, you will take over the payroll cycle, stabilize the recurring calendar, and document the existing processes, controls, and exceptions. By the end of your first year, Giga should have clean payroll operations, benefits employees understand and use, compensation and equity administration that runs on schedule, and reporting leadership trusts.

This is a full-time, 100% remote role with no recurring office requirement. You may work from any location in the United States where Giga is able to employ you. You…