Purpose in Every Position.
At Velocity Global, we believe that success knows no borders—and it’s built by teams working together across them. Our unified, tech-enabled platform empowers businesses to hire, pay, and support talent in 185+ countries, making global growth not just possible, but seamless. Behind every expansion and every solution is a spirit of collaboration between our teams and the companies we serve. With AI-powered tools and human-first service, we simplify the complexity of global workforce management so businesses can focus on what matters: their people, their purpose, and their potential.
Where Your Work Moves the Needle.
At Velocity Global, every team member helps shape our success. When you join us, you don’t just fill a role—you live our values. They guide how we work, collaborate, and make an impact across borders. By bringing these principles to life, you’ll help us grow stronger, move faster, and lead the future of global work.
✔️Doing the Right Thing
Making authentic, values-driven decisions that build trust—even when no one is watching.
✔️Winning as a Team
Collaborating across diverse perspectives and skill sets to achieve shared goals and celebrate collective success.
✔️Leading with Curiosity
Asking thoughtful questions, challenging assumptions, and exploring new possibilities to drive innovation.
✔️Connecting with Empathy
Valuing each person’s unique background and perspective to build an inclusive culture that fosters belonging and creativity.
✔️Driving for Impact
Staying tenacious, customer-focused, and committed to delivering results that make a real difference.
Let's Connect If You:
We are seeking an experienced payroll executive to lead our global payroll function, delivering Employer of Record as well as our global payroll and expense management solutions. As the Head of Global Payroll, you will define and drive our payroll strategy, execution, product development, operations and delivery of services across all 185 countries. This is a unique and exciting opportunity to directly manage a large international team, interact with clients large and small, and shape a fast growing and dynamic industry working for one of the original innovators in the space. This individual will report to the Chief Operating Officer, with close collaboration across our product, engineering and finance teams a large part of the job.
You Will:
- Develop and manage the overall global payroll strategy and payroll initiatives, which include EOR payroll, global payroll, partnership opportunities and management, and direct customer-facing interactions with our clients and supported employees.
- Ensure Velocity Global maintains and expands its global leadership in the Employer of Record industry through innovative and customer-first payroll offerings unmatched by any of our competitors
- Provide operational leadership to ensure timely and accurate payroll for supported employees worldwide.
- Serve as a subject matter and industry expert for Global payroll and establish oneself as a true leader in the space
- Working with our R&D team, define and execute our payroll product and tech strategy
- Manage a team of over 50 employees.
- Partner with the Legal and compliance team to ensure adherence to all global and local regulatory, legal and internal compliance requirements for supported and internal employees.
- Managing deliverables across internal and external stakeholders; understanding reporting/financials; supporting risk/compliance work and plan audits; owning the customer experience and promoting operational excellence
- Leads fact-based, solution-orientated mindsets in teams to ensure continual development and maintenance of service level metrics, management information as well as end-to-end controls for systems, people and payroll processes.
- Recruits, directs, motivates, and develops people managers and individual contributors, maximizing their individual contribution, their professional growth and their ability to function effectively with their colleagues as a team.
You have:
- Strong understanding of the global payroll space, along with a demonstrated track record of developing best in class global payroll solutions
- Minimum 10 years in building global payroll solutions, including system implementation and service delivery on a global level
- Deep experience in fast growing, tech enabled businesses
- Live and breathe operational excellence
- Willingness and ability to innovate fresh and/or unique approaches and solutions
- Experience working in a strategic, analytical, or metric-driven position.
- Ability to effectively lead and collaborate across internal and external stakeholders
- Strong record of customer service and customer first mindset
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, time sensitive work environment, multi-task, work independently, meet deadlines, and manage multiple deliverables.
- Demonstrate commitment to continuous improvement of processes and efficiency gains
- Provide coaching, mentoring and support to drive sustained improvement across the business
- Experience in developing and managing KPIs for performance of operational teams
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Our job titles may span more than one career level. The base pay depends upon many factors, such as training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs, and market demands. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified.
Annualized Pay Range
$232,000—$308,000 USD
Our Commitment to You
At Velocity Global, we’re committed to supporting our team with comprehensive rewards and benefits designed to meet diverse needs across roles and locations. Our core offerings include:
- Flexible Time Off – Take the time you need to recharge.
- Parental Leave – Support for growing families.
- Health and Dental Insurance – Where applicable, to cover you and your loved ones.
- Retirement Savings + Employee Incentive Plan – Plan for the future while sharing our success.
Please visit our career page for more information.
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What We Do
Velocity Global accelerates the future of work for anyone, anywhere, anyhow. Its Global Work Platform™ simplifies the employer and talent experience through its proprietary cloud-based talent management technology, backed by personalized expertise and unmatched global scale. The platform offers a full suite of talent solutions, including global Employer of Record and Contractor Management, to help companies onboard, manage, and pay talent in more than 185 countries and all 50 United States.
Founded in 2014, the company has hundreds of employees across six continents, with plans to double in size in 2022.
As a work anywhere company, Velocity Global employees can create a work experience to fit their lifestyle, giving them the freedom to pursue their passion without the hassle of long commutes, rigid schedules and overlapping work-life demands. We empower people to live life fully, supported by a dynamic culture, growth opportunities and unique benefits. In the words of our founder, Ben Wright: “Professional experiences of a lifetime start here.”
