Senior Global Payroll Manager

Join Strava, a leading fitness tracking platform, as a Senior Global Payroll Manager. In this role, you will own and run Strava's global payroll function across the US and EMEA, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and timely processing. You will build SOX-ready controls, processes, and documentation, and partner closely with various teams to support the company's path to IPO. This is a build mandate, not a maintenance role, and you will lead and develop a globally-distributed team.

• Assurer l'intégrité et l'évolutivité de la fonction de paie mondiale de Strava, en dirigeant une équipe distribuée à l'échelle mondiale.
• Établir et posséder des contrôles, des processus et une documentation conformes à la loi Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) pour la paie, en partenariat avec le contrôleur adjoint.
• Gérer les implications de la paie et de la compensation en actions de l'entreprise en vue de son introduction en bourse, en collaboration avec les équipes juridiques et de l'équité.
• Hands-on depth with payroll processing systems, plus experience managing international payroll vendors and running system implementations
• Substantial experience owning global, multi-country payroll end-to-end as a function owner, across multiple entities and currencies. Direct experience with UK, France, Germany, and Ireland payroll alongside US is important
• Deep multi-jurisdiction payroll compliance knowledge across the US and EMEA, including payroll tax, statutory filings, and FLSA, with ownership of SOX payroll controls and audit support
• Experience through a company’s transition to public ownership, including the payroll and equity-compensation implications of an IPO
• A track record of building SOX-ready payroll controls and processes, not just operating within them
• Experience leading and developing payroll staff, ideally a distributed team across timezones
• Experience taking payroll from a startup operating model to public-company grade, or CPP certification, is a plus
• Demonstrated, functional use of AI tools (such as Anthropic’s Claude) to make meaningful improvements to payroll efficiency or quality
• A clear understanding of the payroll/GL interface — journal entries, accruals, reconciliations, and the close dependency with the GL team
• A measured, data-driven approach to running payroll, with experience building operations reporting from scratch for finance leadership