GP Compliance Expert

About Remote

Remote is solving modern organizations’ biggest challenge – navigating global employment compliantly with ease. We make it possible for businesses of all sizes to recruit, pay, and manage international teams. With our core values at heart and future focused work culture, our team works tirelessly on ambitious problems, asynchronously, around the world. You can find Remoters working from 6 different continents (Antarctica left to go!) and all of our positions are fully remote.

We encourage every member of the Remote team to bring their talents, experiences and culture to the table to help us build the best-in-class HR platform.

If you are energetic, curious, motivated and ambitious, be part of our world. Apply now and define the future of work!

Why Remote?

At Remote, we’re pioneering the future of work—enabling global teams to thrive, compliantly and confidently. Our mission is to transform complexity into clarity and compliance into impact. As a senior expert, your role is pivotal in influencing strategy, leading excellence, and mentoring the next generation of global compliance leaders.

The Opportunity

As a GP Compliance Expert, you are a regional or domain-level authority in payroll and employment compliance. You’ll lead complex audits, shape scalable governance frameworks, and coach Leads to elevate performance across multiple countries or high-impact regions. Your expertise will drive strategic outcomes, align global policies, and scale Remote’s compliance capabilities across teams, systems, and stakeholders.

What You’ll Do

You’ll deliver impact in the following areas:

• Strategic ownership: Lead complex audits and compliance initiatives across multiple countries or domains with 100% on-time delivery.
• Governance frameworks: Design and implement ≥3 scalable best practices or frameworks annually to elevate compliance maturity.
• Policy alignment: Ensure >95% alignment with key compliance policies across countries/markets.
• Incident resolution: Resolve 100% of high-priority risks/issues within 6 weeks; proactively embed learnings.
• Documentation excellence: Maintain 100% of core compliance documentation up to date, reviewed quarterly, and accessible in real time.
• SLA accountability: Resolve ≥95% of Payroll Ops queries within SLA, partnering with key stakeholders to improve first-time resolution.
• Mentorship: Deliver ≥4 documented mentorship or coaching sessions per year; improve team review outcomes year over year.
• Thought leadership: Publish or co-author ≥2 high-impact compliance articles/pieces per year and lead ≥2 external speaking engagements.
• Stakeholder influence: Achieve ≥90% feedback from cross-functional stakeholders on compliance partnership.
• Enablement & communication: Tailor messaging and materials to audience needs; support quarterly coaching/upskilling documentation.

What We Value (Who You Are)

• Deep expertise in payroll, employment, and tax compliance across multiple countries or markets.
• Proven track record of leading complex audits, regulatory reviews, or cross-border compliance programs.
• Trusted escalation point and subject matter expert in high-risk or strategic matters.
• Strategic communicator who influences stakeholders across all levels—including product, legal, and senior leadership.
• Confident mentor and coach with experience developing team capability through structured learning and feedback.
• A systems thinker—able to scale solutions, frameworks, and documentation with clarity and impact.
• Adept at navigating ambiguity and fast-changing environments with adaptability and integrity.
• Comfortable leading initiatives across async, multicultural, and remote-first teams.

How You’ll Grow Here

• Influence Remote’s global strategy for audits, frameworks, enablement, and policy alignment.
• Lead regional or cross-regional initiatives that define how global payroll compliance scales.
• Mentor and develop future leaders across the compliance team.
• Shape thought leadership.