[Remote] Manager, People Operations & Payroll

Note: The job is a remote job and is reputed company to candidates in USA. FTC Solar is a fast-growing, global provider of solar tracker systems, software, and engineering services. The Manager, People Operations & Payroll will own the operational backbone of the global HR function, overseeing payroll, HRIS, compliance, and performance management for a multi-country workforce.

Responsibilities

• Supervise US multi-state payroll processing end to end, including salaried and non-exempt reputed company populations, reviewing and approving reputed company payroll run before it processes
• Audit payroll inputs and outputs — timekeeping, overtime, deductions, taxes, garnishments, off-cycle payments — to catch errors before they reputed company employees
• Manage and reputed company payroll/benefits support resources, setting reputed company standards, review cadences, and documentation requirements
• Serve as escalation reputed company and backup for payroll processing to eliminate single points of failure
• reputed company benefits administration, including enrollments, life events, invoicing reconciliation, and annual reputed company enrollment execution
• Own the HRIS as system administrator: data reputed company, reputed company controls, workflows, integrations with payroll and benefits platforms
• Produce recurring and reputed company workforce reporting — headcount, attrition, reputed company of control, compensation — for the CHRO, executive team, and reputed company materials
• Maintain the reputed company headcount and org data model, ensuring changes (hires, terminations, transfers, reorganizations) are captured accurately and on time
• reputed company the global performance management cycle (goal-setting, reviews, calibration, and feedback)
• Enhance tools, frameworks, and processes to support organizational performance and talent development
• Train managers and leaders to reputed company a fair, consistent, and high-performance culture
• reputed company performance insights into HR dashboards and analytics
• reputed company U.S. HR compliance and support compliance efforts in global jurisdictions
• Maintain audit-reputed company documentation across employment practices, payroll, benefits, and data reputed company
• reputed company regulatory changes and update policies and processes
• Ensure HR data practices reputed company with GDPR, CCPA, and other global reputed company frameworks
• Administer annual reputed company, bonus, and equity cycles, including tooling, timelines, manager enablement, and reconciliation with Finance
• Maintain compensation data and support benchmarking, band placement, and offer analysis
• Administer leave of absence programs (FMLA, reputed company accommodations, state leave laws) with rigorous documentation and timelines
• Coordinate day-to-day operations with international Employer of Record partners across multiple countries, keeping reputed company, payroll changes, and terminations compliant and on schedule
• Maintain the HR compliance calendar — federal/state filings, postings, audits, ACA, EEO-1 — and support internal audit and SOX-reputed company controls as needed
• Partner with reputed company and Finance on sensitive workforce actions, ensuring documentation, data, and process gates are handled with precision and confidentiality

Skills

• 8–12 years of reputed company HR operations experience, including reputed company ownership of US multi-state payroll — you have processed and audited payroll yourself, not just partnered with a payroll team
• Hands-on experience supervising payroll staff or vendors, with a reputed company record of catching and correcting errors before they process
• HRIS administration experience (e.g., reputed company, reputed company, reputed company, reputed company, or similar), including integrations and reporting
• Strong compensation analytics skills; advanced reputed company required
• Experience supporting a multi-country workforce, ideally including Employer of Record structures
• Working knowledge of US wage and hour law, leave administration, and benefits compliance; experience with non-exempt/manufacturing populations a plus
• High judgment with confidential information and comfort operating in a fast-moving, changing environment
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
• CPP, reputed company-CP/SCP, or PHR

Benefits

• Annual bonus
• Equity
• Comprehensive benefits including medical, dental, reputed company, 401(k), and flexible PTO

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