Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.
We are seeking a Head of Global Payroll to lead our rapidly expanding global payroll operations at Anthropic. In this strategic role, you will oversee payroll delivery across multiple countries, lead system implementations, and build a scalable global payroll function. As we expand our international presence and implement new systems, you will play a crucial role in ensuring accurate, compliant, and efficient payroll operations worldwide.
Responsibilities:- Lead global payroll strategy and operations across multiple jurisdictions, ensuring accurate and timely payroll processing for 1,000+ employees
- Drive the payroll work stream for Workday implementation, including system design, testing, and deployment for go-live
- Select and implement new UK payroll provider, ensuring seamless transition from current system
- Establish payroll operations in 6+ new countries in 2025, including strategic framework, system selection and process design
- Build and lead a global payroll team, including oversight of US and international payroll analysts
- Develop scalable processes and controls to support rapid organizational growth
- Partner with Tax and Legal to establish frameworks for cross-border employment policies, including worker secondments and international tax compliance
- Ensure compliance with local regulations across all jurisdictions
- Partner with HR, Legal, and Tax teams on entity setup and ongoing compliance
- Manage relationships with external payroll providers and partners
- Create and maintain payroll policies, procedures, and documentation
- 12+ years of payroll experience with at least 5 years managing global payroll operations
- Extensive experience with payroll systems implementation, particularly Workday
- Deep knowledge of international payroll requirements and regulations
- Track record of building and scaling payroll operations in high-growth environments
- Experience managing payroll operations across multiple countries, particularly in Europe and Asia
- Strong project management skills with experience leading complex system implementations
- Advanced degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, or related field
- Experience leading global payroll operations for rapidly scaling technology companies
- Experience with both in-house and outsourced payroll delivery models
- Strong analytical skills and attention to detail
- Proven stakeholder management and cross-functional collaboration abilities
- Demonstrated adaptability in fast-paced, ambiguous environments
- Passion for building scalable processes and systems
Deadline to apply:
None. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.
The expected salary range for this position is:
Education requirements: We require at least a Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience.
Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices.
Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.
We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification as listed. Research shows that people who identify as being from underrepresented groups are more prone to experiencing imposter syndrome and doubting the strength of their candidacy, so we urge you not to exclude yourself prematurely and to submit an application if you're interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones we're building have enormous social and ethical implications. We think this makes representation even more important, and we strive to include a range of diverse perspectives on our team.
How we're differentWe believe that the highest-impact AI research will be big science. At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive team on just a few large-scale research efforts. And we value impact — advancing our long-term goals of steerable, trustworthy AI — rather than work on smaller and more specific puzzles. We view AI research as an empirical science, which has as much in common with physics and biology as with traditional efforts in computer science. We're an extremely collaborative group, and we host frequent research discussions to ensure that we are pursuing the highest-impact work at any given time. As such, we greatly value communication skills.
The easiest way to understand our research directions is to read our recent research. This research continues many of the directions our team worked on prior to Anthropic, including: GPT-3, Circuit-Based Interpretability, Multimodal Neurons, Scaling Laws, AI & Compute, Concrete Problems in AI Safety, and Learning from Human Preferences.
Come work with us!Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues.