Payroll Manager

Amplitude is the leading digital analytics platform, helping over 4,300 customers—including Atlassian, Burger King, NBCUniversal, Square, and Under Armour—build better products and digital experiences. With powerful AI Agents embedded across our platform, teams can analyze, test, and optimize user experiences faster than ever. Ranked #1 across multiple categories by G2, Amplitude is the best‑in‑class solution for product, data, and marketing teams.

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As an organization, we deliver for our customers by living our values. We operate from a place of humility, take ownership of problems and successes, approach challenges with a growth mindset, and put our customers at the center of everything we do.

Amplitude's Commitment to Diversity Equity & Inclusion (DEI): Amplitude believes that diversity enables the creation of better products, improves the ability to solve complex problems, and drives more powerful solutions. We strive to create an environment of inclusion—focused on psychological safety, empathy, and human connection—that will allow employees of all backgrounds to thrive.

We're looking for a Payroll Manager (Workday) to join our Accounting team
, reporting to the Head of Payroll
. You'll own the day‑to‑day operations of payroll, ensuring our global team members are paid accurately, on time, and in compliance with all regulations. This role partners closely with HRIS, Finance, and IT to keep our payroll systems running smoothly and to support scalable, compliant processes as Amplitude continues to grow across multiple regions.

This role is open to candidates based in a U.S. Pacific Time Zone location
, with the expectation of working standard PT hours. While the team collaborates virtually, payroll and accounting operations rely on tight coordination across time‑sensitive workflows.

As a Payroll Manager, you will:

• Serve as the functional lead for Workday Payroll
  , driving accuracy, compliance, and process efficiency.
• Oversee integrations and data flow between Workday HCM/Payroll and global payroll vendors (like Cloud Pay), escalating and resolving issues as needed.
• Manage end‑to‑end payroll processing across multiple states and countries, ensuring compliance with local, state, federal, and international tax and labor laws.
• Prepare payroll‑related journal entries and general ledger files, partnering with the Accounting team for accurate financial reporting and reconciliations.
• Act as a subject‑matter expert and primary escalation point for complex payroll inquiries, audits, and compliance matters.

You'll be a great addition to the team if you have:

• Thriving on getting the details right—accuracy and compliance are your love language.
• Enjoying connecting the dots between payroll, accounting, and HR systems to create a seamless experience for employees.
• Proactive about improving processes and scaling operations as the company grows globally.
• Communicating clearly and effectively, whether you're explaining a technical issue or collaborating across teams.
• Bringing a mix of precision and curiosity—you don't just follow processes, you make them better.

At a minimum, you need to have:

• Extensive experience managing multi‑state and/or global payroll operations
  .
• Deep working knowledge of Workday Payroll and experience with integrated global payroll platforms like Cloud Pay
  .
• Strong understanding of payroll accounting principles
  , tax compliance, and labor regulations.
• Demonstrated experience managing vendor relationships and service level agreements (SLAs).
• Advanced Excel skills and the ability to analyze and reconcile large sets of payroll data accurately.

The Company: Amplitude is filled with humble, life‑long learners who are eager to help one another and the company succeed. Our values of growth mindset, ownership, and humility are core to the way we work: we're tenacious in the face of challenges, we take the initiative to solve problems that drive our shared success, and we operate from a place of empathy and openness, seeking to understand many points of view.

The Product: Amplitude is a digital analytics platform—we help companies capture data they can trust, uncover clear…