Global Time & Attendance Product Strategy Lead

🕒 May 6

🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

💵 $124.5k - $140.1k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧐 Strategy

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Remote

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501 - 1000 employees

👥 HR Tech

☁️ SaaS

🏢 Enterprise

HR Tech • SaaS • Enterprise

Remote is a global HR platform that simplifies the process of hiring, onboarding, managing, and paying employees and contractors worldwide. It offers comprehensive solutions for recruitment, payroll management, contractor management, and compliance. The platform supports businesses in handling HR tasks seamlessly and efficiently, ensuring fast and compliant payouts, providing employer of record services, and facilitating employee benefits and equity offerings. Additionally, Remote integrates with various HR systems, allowing for a flexible, scalable, and reliable solution for businesses looking to expand globally.

📋 Description

• Partner with T&A, Payroll Operations, Product, and Implementation teams to integrate country-specific labor law requirements (working time regulations, overtime rules, rest periods, CBAs, statutory accruals) into system design and configuration • Ensure compliance reviews are built into project lifecycles, including requirements gathering, configuration validation, testing, and go-live readiness • Advocate for compliance to be embedded from the outset rather than addressed after implementation • Work with country compliance and legal experts to interpret statutory obligations (maximum working hours, mandatory breaks, overtime calculations, accrual logic, record retention, etc.) • Translate legislative requirements into clear system configuration rules, technical specifications, and operational controls • Convert complex legal language into actionable requirements that Product and Operations teams can implement consistently • Serve as the central compliance point of contact for all T&A-related initiatives, aligning Compliance, Product, Payroll Operations, and Implementation teams • Establish governance checkpoints and review processes that ensure regulatory alignment without slowing delivery • Define global standards while accommodating country-specific legal requirements • Identify compliance gaps or control weaknesses before they create operational or regulatory exposure • Assess potential impact in collaboration with subject matter experts • Recommend practical corrective actions, prioritize remediation efforts, and escalate material risks when required • Coordinate internal and external audit requests relating to Time & Attendance systems and processes • Partner with country compliance experts and operational stakeholders to compile complete, accurate, and defensible documentation • Ensure audit evidence and control documentation are delivered on time • Track remediation actions resulting from audit findings through to closure • Develop and maintain T&A compliance documentation, including control narratives, process maps, risk registers, and change logs • Set documentation standards that ensure processes are transparent, traceable, and audit-ready across all operating countries • Ensure compliance impact assessments are incorporated into system and process change management

🎯 Requirements

• Hands-on experience with global payroll Time & Attendance systems (e.g., Workday Time Tracking, UKG, ADP, Ceridian Dayforce) across multiple jurisdictions • Strong understanding of T&A compliance requirements, including working time directives, overtime calculations, rest period enforcement, accrual methodologies, and statutory record-keeping obligations • Knowledge of how collective bargaining agreements influence T&A configuration and operational processing • Ability to translate functional requirements into scalable system controls • Ability to interpret labor legislation and translate statutory requirements into operational controls and system functionality • Experience coordinating audit responses and preparing compliance documentation for regulatory or internal review • Track record of identifying and mitigating compliance risks in multi-country environments • Strong project management skills, with experience embedding compliance into agile or hybrid delivery frameworks • Ability to influence and align cross-functional stakeholders (Product, Operations, Implementation, Legal, Compliance) without direct authority • Experience establishing governance structures that balance risk management with business enablement • Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain complex regulatory requirements clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences • Experience creating structured documentation that withstands audit and regulatory scrutiny • Ability to collaborate effectively with country-based compliance experts and global stakeholders across time zones.

🏖️ Benefits

• work from anywhere • flexible paid time off • flexible working hours (we are async) • 16 weeks paid parental leave • mental health support services • stock options • learning budget • home office budget & IT equipment • budget for local in-person social events or co-working spaces