Global Payroll Vendor Manager (Payroll)

Location: Fully remote; work from anywhere, subject to authorization to work where you live. Compensation is listed for Romania, Poland, Hungary, and Bulgaria.

Salary: Romania RON 225K–280K; Poland PLN 170K–210K; Hungary HUF 13.2M–17M; Bulgaria BGN 72K–90K. Equity offered.

Company

hirify.global is a global employment platform for hiring, paying, and supporting employees across countries.

What you will do

• Own strategic multi-country payroll partners and provide operational and commercial leadership.
• Monitor payroll delivery, cut-off calendars, Gross-to-Net calculations, statutory filings, controls, SLAs, and vendor performance.
• Define partner governance, scorecards, review cadences, escalation thresholds, and remediation plans.
• Lead vendor selection, onboarding, commercial negotiations, renewals, transitions, and exit decisions.
• Manage complex payroll and compliance escalations through root-cause analysis, recovery, prevention, and executive communication.
• Build scalable processes, documentation, knowledge resources, automation, and AI-enabled reporting while protecting payroll and personal data.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of direct experience managing multi-country payroll vendors and compliance or Health & Safety partners.
• Strong knowledge of end-to-end payroll processing, Gross-to-Net calculations, statutory filings, payroll controls, regulatory monitoring, and risk assessments.
• Experience with vendor governance, KPIs, SLAs, compliance audits, remediation plans, and executive business reviews.
• Commercial negotiation and contract-management experience, including pricing, service levels, remedies, renewals, and trade-offs.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, influencing, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Fluent English and authorization to work where you live are required.

Nice to have

• Experience working with vendors across APAC, EMEA, LATAM, and AMER.
• Experience building vendor governance programs or operational frameworks.
• Additional languages.
• Experience in a scaling startup or global technology environment.
• Experience implementing AI tools or automation workflows.

Culture & Benefits

• Fully remote, asynchronous, and collaborative work environment.
• 40 days of paid time off per year, including holidays and vacation, or more where locally required.
• Mental health support and a monthly wellbeing allowance.
• At least three months of paid parental leave with job protection, subject to local requirements.
• Work-from-home stipend for laptop and home office equipment.