Senior Payroll & Compensation Specialist

🕒 September 17

🌵 Arizona, California, +17 more states – Remote

🌵 Arizona – Remote 🏄 California – Remote ⛰️ Colorado – Remote 🐊 Florida – Remote 🥔 Idaho – Remote 🌽 Illinois – Remote ⚜️ Louisiana – Remote 🎰 Nevada – Remote 🏖️ New Jersey – Remote 🗽 New York – Remote 🌲 North Carolina – Remote 🏈 Ohio – Remote 🦀 Maryland – Remote 🏰 Missouri – Remote 🤠 Texas – Remote ⚔️ Virginia – Remote ☕ Washington – Remote 🧀 Wisconsin – Remote 🦬 Wyoming – Remote

💵 $69k - $99k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

👩‍👩‍👧‍👦 Human Resources (HR)

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Paleovalley

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2013

🍽️ Food & Beverage

🛍️ eCommerce

👥 B2C

Food & Beverage • eCommerce • B2C

Paleovalley is an online retailer and brand that sells paleo-focused food products and dietary supplements. The company offers grass-fed and pasture-raised meat snack sticks (beef, venison, chicken, pork), protein powders (bone broth, whey), superfood bars, organic greens, functional supplements (omega-3, organ complexes, turmeric, electrolytes, apple cider vinegar), and pantry items like beef tallow and extra virgin olive oil. Their site emphasizes natural, pasture- or grass-fed sourcing, runs promotions (sales, free shipping thresholds), and operates a direct-to-consumer e-commerce storefront.

📋 Description

• Own and independently process regular, off-cycle, special, and final payrolls in Rippling for employees across 20+ states • Audit payroll inputs and results, including employee changes, timekeeping, deductions, garnishments, reimbursements, bonuses, PTO payouts, and other payroll-impacting activity • Manage international contractor setup and payments across multiple countries • Serve as the primary point of contact for payroll questions and resolve pay, withholding, deduction, and other payroll issues • Maintain knowledge of federal, state, and local payroll requirements • Own payroll tax registrations and account maintenance across applicable jurisdictions • Serve as the internal Rippling Payroll subject-matter expert and maintain payroll workflows, controls, documentation, and system configurations • Partner with the Director of HR to administer and strengthen the compensation framework • Benchmark roles using Payscale and other market data • Support job leveling and pricing • Maintain compensation data, salary ranges, market benchmarks, job-leveling records, and documentation • Support annual compensation planning and review cycles • Analyze compensation data for market positioning, internal equity, pay trends, and inconsistencies • Administer promotions, market adjustments, bonuses, and other compensation changes • Prepare payroll reconciliations, funding information, approval packages, journal entry support, compensation reports, and audit-ready documentation • Identify payroll or compensation errors, trends, and control gaps and implement improvements • Partner with HR, Finance, Compliance, and business leaders to maintain accurate, compliant, and scalable processes

🎯 Requirements

• 4+ years of hands-on, end-to-end payroll experience • 2+ years of independent ownership of payroll for a complex, multi-state U.S. workforce • Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Finance, Accounting, or a related field preferred; equivalent relevant experience may be considered in lieu of a degree • Meaningful experience supporting compensation processes such as market benchmarking, job pricing, salary ranges, compensation analysis, annual compensation cycles, or pay adjustments • Experience using compensation benchmarking tools and market data to evaluate competitive pay; Payscale experience strongly preferred • Working knowledge of market positioning, job leveling, salary ranges, geographic differentials, internal equity, and benchmarking • Strong knowledge of federal, state, and local payroll requirements, including wage payment, final pay, payroll taxes, deductions, garnishments, recordkeeping, and year-end reporting • Experience supporting hourly and salaried populations, including timekeeping, variable pay, bonuses, and other payroll-related wage and hour considerations • Strong analytical and spreadsheet skills • Ability to reconcile complex data, identify trends, and translate payroll and market data into useful insights • Ability to independently resolve complex payroll issues and appropriately escalate strategic or higher-risk matters • Exceptional attention to detail, organization, discretion, and communication when handling confidential payroll and compensation information • All applicants must be authorized to work in the United States • FPC, CPP, CCP, or progress toward a relevant certification is a bonus • Experience processing payroll for employees in California is a bonus • Experience supporting compensation frameworks, job architecture, leveling structures, salary range methodologies, annual compensation review cycles, or Rippling payroll is a bonus

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage with 100% employer-paid dental/vision and a small monthly medical premium for employees; dependents may be added at employee cost • Generous Paid time off • Paid sick time • Six (6) company-paid holidays each year • Two (2) floating holidays • Paid parental leave after 6 months of service for eligible employees • 100% company-paid Short-Term Disability, Long-Term Disability, and Life Insurance • Referral bonuses up to $1,500 • 401(k) or Roth Plans with up to a 4% company match after one year of service • $300 Paleovalley Monthly product stipend for employees