Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Payroll Specialist role stands out in SaaS because it sits at the operational core of a product-led company with a global footprint. Modern SaaS businesses often scale headcount across countries quickly, and that creates complexity across payroll, equity, and multi-system data flows. The remit here reflects that reality, spanning global worker types and multiple platforms used widely across SaaS operations.
From a career perspective, the work builds durable SaaS operating skills: establishing repeatable payroll cycles, tightening payroll-to-cash and payroll-to-GL reconciliations, and maintaining clean source-of-truth data across HRIS, payroll, and cap table tooling. Exposure to equity administration and related tax events is particularly transferable in venture-backed SaaS, where stock programs and audit readiness become recurring themes as companies mature.
This role is best suited to an operator who prefers precision, documentation, and cross-functional problem solving over ad hoc support work. It will appeal to someone comfortable coordinating with People, Finance, Legal, Tax, and external vendors, and who enjoys improving controls and systems as complexity increases. The remote-first setup also signals a fit for professionals who can manage dependencies across time zones with consistent process discipline.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
About ElevenLabs
ElevenLabs is an AI research and product company transforming how we interact with technology.
We launched in January 2023 with the first human-like AI voice model. Today, we serve millions of users and thousands of businesses - from fast-growing startups to large enterprises like Deutsche Telekom and Meta. Our investors are some of the world's most prominent, including Andreessen Horowitz, ICONIQ Growth and Sequoia. We've raised $781M in funding and our last valuation was $11B - multiples of 11, always.
We have expanded from voice into three main platforms:
ElevenAgents enables businesses to deliver seamless and intelligent customer experiences, with the integrations, testing, monitoring, and reliability necessary to deploy voice and chat agents at scale.
ElevenCreative empowers creators and marketers to generate and edit speech, music, image, and video across 70+ languages.
ElevenAPI gives developers access to our leading AI audio foundational models.
Everything we do is the result of the creativity and commitment of our team - builders doing the best work of their lives. We are researchers, engineers, and operators. IOI medalists and ex-founders. If you want to work hard and create lasting positive impact, we want to hear from you.
How we work
High-velocity: Rapid experimentation, lean autonomous teams, and minimal bureaucracy.
Impact not job titles: We don’t have job titles. Instead, it’s about the impact you have. No task is above or beneath you.
AI first: We use AI to move faster with higher-quality results. We do this across the whole company—from engineering to growth to operations.
Excellence everywhere: Everything we do should match the quality of our AI models.
Global team: We prioritize your talent, not your location.
What we offer
Innovative culture: You’ll be part of a generational opportunity to define the trajectory of AI, surrounded by a team pushing the boundaries of what’s possible.
Growth paths: Joining ElevenLabs means joining a dynamic team with countless opportunities to drive impact - beyond your immediate role and responsibilities.
Learning & development: ElevenLabs proactively supports professional development through an annual discretionary stipend.
Social travel: We also provide an annual discretionary stipend to meet up with colleagues each year, however you choose.
Annual company offsite: Each year, we bring the entire team together in a new location - past offsites have included Croatia and Italy.
Co-working: If you’re not located near one of our main hubs, we offer a monthly co-working stipend.
About the role
You’ll own the core systems, processes, and reporting that power our global payroll operations and equity administration. You’ll run accurate, compliant payroll cycles across multiple entities, worker types, and currencies, and manage the operational lifecycle of equity programs and related taxable events.
This role sits at the intersection of People, Legal, Finance, and Tax, where you’ll ensure data integrity, assist in performing reconciliations through to cash and ERP, and strengthen our compensation and payroll infrastructure as the company grows rapidly.
Manage global payroll operations across direct employees, EORs (Employer of Record), and contractors, ensuring timely, accurate, and compliant pay cycles.
Assist in preparing and performing payroll-to-cash and payroll-to-ERP (GL) reconciliations, supporting month-end close.
Administer global equity programs in Carta, including grants, vesting, exercises, platform maintenance, and equity-related taxable events.
Maintain data consistency across HiBob, Carta, Deel, and ERP systems through reconciliations and exception reviews.
Support audits and external advisors with accurate, well-documented operational data.
Requirements
Hands‑on experience administering equity plans in an international setting (e.g. RSUs, stock options, taxable events).
Experience managing global payroll operations via Deel (including direct employees, EORs, and contractors) or similar global payroll platforms.
Strong understanding of payroll and tax considerations related to equity compensation.
Exceptional attention to detail, operational rigor, and ownership mindset.
Ability to operate independently in a fast‑paced, high‑growth environment.
Comfortable partnering cross‑functionally with People, Finance, Legal, Tax, and external vendors independently in a high-velocity environment and collaborating across Legal, People, Finance, Tax, and external vendors.
Bonus:
Experience operating in SOX or AICPA/PCAOB audit environments.
Experience automating workflows or optimizing integrations between HRIS, payroll systems, and equity platforms.
Background working in global, high-growth technology companies.
Location
This role is remote-first, so it can be executed from anywhere globally, with the ability to operate between GMT-5 to GMTx+2 timezones required / preferred. If you prefer, you can work from our offices in Dublin, London, New York, and Warsaw.
