Payroll Specialist

Location: Remote, United States only

Salary: $70,000–$90,000 per year plus equity

Company

hirify.global builds AI-native industrial robot arms deployed at manufacturing facilities across the United States.

What you will do

• Run full-cycle, multi-state payroll in Workday for salaried and hourly employees, including off-cycle runs, terminations, retroactive pay, bonuses, and commissions.
• Maintain Workday payroll data, including earnings and deduction codes, pay groups, work locations, tax elections, garnishments, and direct deposits.
• Track time, overtime, shift differentials, and PTO accruals with Manufacturing Operations and resolve employee payroll questions.
• Support the final Workday Payroll implementation through configuration validation, testing, parallel runs, data migration checks, and PEO cutover.
• Manage payroll tax registrations, filings, deposits, agency notices, quarter- and year-end processes, and payroll compliance.
• Reconcile payroll with the general ledger, prepare journal entries and accruals, administer payroll deductions, and provide audit data.

Requirements

• 3+ years of full-cycle payroll experience, including multi-state U.S. payroll.
• Hands-on Workday Payroll experience processing payroll, not only viewing reports.
• Working knowledge of federal, state, and local payroll taxes, wage and hour law, and FLSA classification.
• Experience with payroll GL mapping, reconciliations, journal entries, and large data sets.
• Strong Excel skills, exceptional accuracy, discretion with confidential data, and clear written communication.
• Ability to work remotely from within the United States.

Nice to have

• Experience transitioning payroll from a PEO to an in-house Workday environment.
• Experience with manufacturing or hourly, non-exempt workforces.
• Workday Payroll implementation or configuration exposure, including EIBs, calculated fields, and payroll reporting.
• Experience at a venture-backed company with rapid headcount growth.
• CPP or FPC certification.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time remote work for candidates based anywhere in the United States.
• Employee stock options for full-time employees.
• Paid time off, medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Life and disability insurance.
• 401(k) benefits for regular full-time employees.