Payroll Product Compliance Manager, HiBob
+ Company share options plan
A modern HR platform powering productivity, engagement, and retention
Open for applications
A modern HR platform powering productivity, engagement, and retention
1001+ employees
Open for applications
+ Company share options plan
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create a modern work experience that empowers organisations to be remarkable.
Role
Who you are
- If you love turning regulatory complexity into intuitive solutions, understand how technology is built, and want to empower customers globally, this role is for you
- Several years of hands-on experience in UK payroll compliance, with proven ability to interpret and apply regulations
- Strong knowledge of US payroll legislation, plus familiarity with compliance in additional markets
- Experience working closely with product and engineering teams, with a solid understanding of the software development lifecycle (SDLC)
- A technical mindset—comfortable understanding system capabilities, integrations, and technological constraints
- Excellent analytical and communication skills to build trust, guide teams, and simplify complex topics by bridging between compliance, product, and technical stakeholders
- A Bachelor’s degree in Law, Business, Finance, HR, or a related field
- Detail-oriented mindset: Ability to spot risks and ensure accuracy in a highly regulated domain
- Product thinking: Ability to balance compliance requirements with usability, scalability, and product vision
- Collaboration: Skilled at working across teams and functions in a fast-paced, global company
- Problem-solving: Turning regulatory complexity into user-friendly workflows
- Adaptability: Thriving in a fast-changing environment with evolving compliance and product needs
- Customer focus: Always keeping the end-user experience at the heart of decisions
Desirable
- Experience working in a SaaS, HR tech, or global environment
- Familiarity with HRIS or payroll systems like ADP, Workday, or similar
- Exposure to modern, all-in-one HR platforms
- Product management experience (roadmapping, feature prioritisation, trade-off discussions)
- Curiosity to explore and stay ahead of evolving international payroll legislation
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Payroll Product Compliance Manager with deep expertise in UK payroll regulations and strong knowledge of US and other international frameworks
- Your primary focus will be on ensuring HiBob’s Payroll UK solution is compliant, accurate, and trusted, while also supporting compliance needs across Payroll US and additional regions as our global footprint expands
- This is a unique opportunity to combine compliance leadership with product management capabilities—ensuring HiBob’s Payroll solutions (Payroll UK, Payroll US, and Payroll Hub for integrated payroll solutions) are not only compliant but also innovative, scalable, and user-friendly
- In this role, you’ll act as a bridge between regulation and technology. You’ll collaborate closely with Product, Engineering, and Legal to translate complex payroll requirements into simple, robust, and delightful product workflows
- Own payroll compliance: Lead the monitoring, interpretation, and application of UK payroll legislation and tax regulations as your primary focus, while also supporting US and other international compliance requirements
- Translate regulations into product features: Partner with Product and R&D to transform complex compliance needs into user-friendly solutions aligned with our roadmap
- Champion the product process: Work across the full product lifecycle, balancing trade-offs, dependencies, and prioritisation within the SDLC
- Bring regulations to life: Translate payroll rules into clear, actionable product features that deliver both compliance and excellent user experience
- Be the go-to expert: Serve as subject matter expert for UK payroll compliance and provide broader guidance across US and international markets
- Collaborate across functions: Work with Product, R&D, Sales, Customer Success, Legal, and other teams to keep customers informed about updates and changes
- Guide and document: Create clear documentation and explain the “why” behind compliance strategies to empower internal teams
- Drive process improvement: Identify opportunities to automate, streamline, and evolve compliance processes
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Developing and maintaining talent is a big challenge for companies that are scaling quickly. Hibob are trying to be one of the solutions.
There are an increasing number of startups attracting huge amount of investment and being pushed to scale their business fast, meaning the customer base for Hibob's services is big and growing.
Hibob have attracted high profile customers like Monzo, eToro, and Receipt Bank, which gives them great credibility for selling to other companies.
Hibob's recent acquisition of Cassiopeia - a Workplace Relationships Analytics Startup, will afford companies better insights to improve team communications and support flexible work models. Together, they wish to offer thousands of companies the tools they need to maximize the employee experience in our increasingly digital world.
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Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Sep 2024
$150m
SERIES E
Sep 2023
$150m
LATE VC
Total funding: $715m
Company benefits
- Company share options plan
- Flexible hybrid working model
- Work from home allowance: to get your home office set up how you like it
- Volunteering days: Two days each year to support your community
- Employee referral program paying up to $2,500 for each successful referral
- Work from anywhere: Temporary remote work from anywhere in the world for up to two months (after six months of employment)
- Fun company and team social events (locally and virtually with our global teams)
- Bob Balance Days: A company-wide long weekend at the beginning of each quarter (four additional days of leave)
- Generous annual leave allowance
- Pension scheme or savings plan
- Birthday day off: Take the day off and receive a special gift
- Headspace subscription to help look after your mental health
- Cash allowance for health insurance
- Travel season ticket loan
Company values
- Bring me, win as we: When we come together as a global team, we can build something trailblazing. Every Bobber can show up as their authentic self, strengthening the connections in our village and having an exponential impact.
- Build the exceptional: Everyone contributes to building the exceptional at HiBob. We are leading the way in what a functional, flexible, and fun HR platform and mindset looks like.
- We do what we say: We are intentional and take pride in aligning our actions with our words. We deliver today on the promises we made yesterday. We actively use our product and seek to drive best practices.
- Trust and empower each other: Bobbers shine when those around them shine, too. We hire smart people who have the freedom to do their jobs in the best possible way.
- Interact with transparency and openness: Information is a resource to be shared, not a resource to be guarded.
- Grow through what we go through: We need to be agile and adapt. With every challenge and experience we go through, we learn, improve, and remain resilient.
Company HQ
London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Israel David
(Co-Founder & CTO)Previously SVP of Technology at Kenshoo, VP of IT Business Management at VMware, and VP/GM at 48Upper.
Ronni Zehavi
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously co-founded Team8 and Cotendo. He also spent two years at Akamai Technologies as a Senior VP and GM of the Security Division.
People progressing
Joined HiBob in 2021 as SMB Customer Success Manager and grown to lead the Global SMB Account Manager team in the Customer Growth division, driving scalable growth and success with global customers.
Joined the CX team in 2018 and helped build the SMB CSM team as one of its first members. Has progressed through leadership roles and is now Head of SMB Customer Success, driving adoption & retention.
Joined as a Customer Success Manager in 2022 before moving to our Sales Engineering team after 18 months. Has since been promoted to Senior Sales Engineer, supporting our Partnerships team.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at HiBob
- Our success depends on our people, and we want HiBob to be a workplace where everyone can feel a sense of belonging and thrive, so we’re committed to being proactive at all levels so that our workforce reflects the communities in which we live, work, and hire. We are open to all talent. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to neurodiversity, race/ethnicity, colour, national origin, religion, gender, pregnancy, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, age, disability, genetic information, military service, covered/protected veteran status or any other federal, state or local protected class*(*US only).
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