Global Payroll Manager

Profound is the fastest-growing AI marketing platform, used by 15% of the Fortune 500 including Comcast, Estée Lauder, and Walmart, and innovators like Ramp, MongoDB, and Figma. It is where marketing teams do the work: research, briefs, content, campaigns, reporting, all in one place, alongside agents that carry the load with them.

Built on 2B+ real user prompts and growing, Profound’s data shows you what people ask AI and what the models say back. Profound's AI Marketer joins that data with deep context about our customers to find the opportunities worth acting on, and then puts agents to work: automating reporting, drafting content, auditing pages for readability, running competitive research. It measures what works and gets better every day.

As our Payroll Manager
, you will own payroll for our core entities in the US, UK, Singapore, and Argentina, with ad hoc oversight of our Employer of Record (EOR) countries. You will run payroll accurately and on time, and build the controls, documentation, and automation that let us grow headcount without growing manual work. You will partner with Finance, People, Legal, and Accounting, and be the point of contact for payroll questions from employees and leaders.

As an AI company, we expect this role to use AI and automation as a normal part of how payroll gets done, with the judgment to know where human review is required.

Payroll operations

Run end-to-end payroll for the US, UK, Singapore, and Argentina, including new hires, terminations, salary changes, bonuses, commissions, and other variable pay

Administer deductions and benefit contributions, including 401(k) remittances, garnishments, and pension contributions, working with benefits and retirement providers

Manage contractor payments and keep worker classification documented with People and Legal

Respond to employee questions on pay, deductions, taxes, and benefits, and protect the confidentiality of all payroll data

Compliance and tax

Maintain compliance with local tax, wage and hour, social security, pension, and statutory requirements in every jurisdiction, including registrations, filings (such as Form 941), year-end reporting, and responses to tax authority notices

Handle payroll tax for mobile and remote employees across US states and countries

Vendors and EOR

Manage our EOR partner for Spain and Germany: validate inputs, review outputs and invoices, and coordinate onboarding, offboarding, and employee questions

Own relationships with payroll providers, benefits administrators, and local tax and accounting advisors, and hold them to clear service levels

Equity and commissions

Support equity compensation payroll processes, including withholding and reporting on exercises and vesting events, in coordination with Legal and Carta, plus UK EMI-related items

Administer sales commissions and other variable pay with Sales Ops to ensure plans are paid accurately and on schedule

Process, automation, and AI

Build and maintain payroll calendars, checklists, SOPs, and internal controls, including approvals, segregation of duties, and audit trails

Use AI and workflow automation to remove manual work, such as pre-run variance and anomaly checks, input validation, reconciliations, SOP drafting, and triaging routine employee questions

Evaluate AI-enabled payroll and HRIS features and automation tools, and recommend what to adopt based on accuracy, cost, and risk

Set clear rules for where AI output needs human review and how sensitive employee data is protected when AI tools are used

Lead the payroll side of expansion into new countries, from registrations and provider selection to first-run readiness

5 to 8+ years of payroll experience (including multi-country payroll)

Hands-on experience…