Tax & Payroll Operations Lead (Payroll)

Location: Remote within the United States; office options are available in New York City and San Francisco.

Salary: $102,000–$117,250 annual base salary for remote U.S. employees, plus equity. Office-based ranges in New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Seattle are $120,000–$137,500 annually.

Company

hirify.global provides embedded payroll API infrastructure that enables businesses to launch and scale payroll products.

What you will do

• Own end-to-end filing payment operations for assigned jurisdictions, including setup, verification, troubleshooting, and remediation.
• Diagnose complex tax notices and determine root causes across filings, payments, agency systems, and internal workflows.
• Manage complex corrections and reconciliations, including misapplied payments, reversals, reissues, underpayments, and overpayments.
• Partner with R&D, Product, and operations teams to improve tooling, validations, automation, and documentation.
• Identify recurring payment and notice patterns to reduce risk, shorten resolution times, and improve partner experience.

Requirements

• 4–6+ years of experience in payroll or tax operations.
• Expertise in payroll tax operations and compliance, including filings, remittances, notices, corrections, amendments, and reconciliations.
• Strong judgment when making tax decisions, assessing trade-offs, and escalating issues.
• Experience improving processes through tooling, documentation, controls, and scalable fixes.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to adapt detail for different audiences.
• Must be authorized to work in the United States; hirify.global participates in E-Verify and completes Form I-9 verification.

Nice to have

• Experience at a startup or high-growth company.
• Comfort using AI tools for analysis, drafting, and pattern recognition while validating results in regulated work.
• Interest in learning a specialized payroll tax domain.

Culture & Benefits

• Distributed U.S.-based team with remote, hybrid, and office work options.
• Flexible PTO, sick leave, and generous paid parental leave with flexible return-to-work options.
• 401(k), medical, dental, vision, disability, and basic life insurance benefits effective from the first day.
• $100 monthly stipend for home internet and mobile phone expenses.
• Annual three-day company retreat, team offsites, events, and hackathons.