Our mission at Oura is to empower every person to own their inner potential. Our award-winning products help our global community gain a deeper knowledge of their readiness, activity, and sleep quality by using their Oura Ring and its connected app. We've helped millions of people understand and improve their health by providing daily insights and practical steps to inspire healthy lifestyles.
Empowering the world starts with living our values and empowering our team. As a quickly growing company focused on helping people live healthier and happier lives, we ensure that our team members have what they need to do their best work — both in and out of the office.
We are looking for a Senior Manager of Global Payroll to lead, optimize, and scale our global payroll function in support of the company’s continuing growth and international expansion. This role acts as the primary internal subject matter expert on multi-channel, multi-region payroll execution, compliance, and systems integration. The ideal candidate brings deep technical expertise in enterprise system configuration, public company controls, and cross-functional partnership.
What you will do:
- Lead Global Payroll Operations: Own and scale the end-to-end processing of multi-entity global payrolls, ensuring absolute accuracy, compliance with localized tax laws, and timely execution.
- System Administration & Optimization: Act as the primary business owner for our core payroll systems, specifically focusing on the configuration, data integrity, reporting, and automated workflows within Workday Payroll.
- Lead Migration and Transformation Initiatives: Lead and participate in complex financial/HR system migrations or implementation projects, partnering with external consultants and internal Business Systems teams to scale infrastructure, including process redesign, testing, cutover, and stabilization.
- Internal Controls: Design, implement, and maintain robust internal control frameworks over global payroll processing to ensure compliance with internal control requirements and audit readiness.
- Equity & Mobility Partnership: Partner closely with Stock Plan Administration, Legal, and Corporate Tax to accurately process stock-based compensation distributions (RSUs/Options), net settlements, and withholding taxes across global jurisdictions.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Serve as a trusted thought partner to People/HR, FP&A, Accounting, and legal teams to align payroll execution with broader corporate strategies and company goals.
Requirements
We would love to consider you for this role if you have:
- 8+ years of progressive payroll management experience, ideally within a high-growth consumer technology or hardware manufacturing environment.
- **Deep Payroll expertise: Knowledge of employer tax, social security, statutory leave, and benefits-related payroll obligations across multiple countries. **
- Global Exposure: Knowledge of foreign entity reporting rules, global mobility taxation, and cross-border payroll compliance parameters.
- Analytical Soft Skills: Exceptional communication skills with the capability to see the big picture while translating complex tax and equity withholding logic into digestible guidance for senior leadership.
- System Implementation Track Record: Direct experience participating in or leading enterprise-level payroll system implementations, software integrations, or multi-country migrations.
- Equity Payroll Experience: Deep experience with equity payroll, including stock-compensation taxation and withholding operations.
Preferred Experience
- Public Company Experience: Strong understanding of public company operational compliance standards, including Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) controls and external financial statement audit support.
- Deep Workday Proficiency: Hands-on experience administering, configuring, and optimizing the Workday payroll module for domestic and international entities.
Benefits
At ŌURA , we care about you and your well-being. Everyone here at ŌURA has a ring of their own and we are continually looking to improve employee health.
What we offer:
- Competitive salary and equity packages
- Health, dental, vision insurance, and mental health resources
- An ŌURA Ring of your own plus employee discounts for friends & family
- 20 days of paid time off plus 13 paid holidays plus 8 days of flexible wellness time off
- Paid sick leave and parental leave
ŌURA takes a market-based approach to pay, which may vary depending on your location. US locations are categorized into tiers based on a cost of labor index for that geographic area. While most offers will be closer to the starting range, successful candidates' pay will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, work location, internal peer equity, and market conditions. These ranges may be modified in the future.
- Region 1: $170,000 - $200,000
- Region 2: $154,700 - $182,000
- Region 3: $139,400 - $164,000
A recruiter can determine your Region based on your US location.
We are not considering candidates residing in the following states: Alaska (AK), Delaware (DE), Iowa (IA), Mississippi (MS), Nebraska (NE), South Dakota (SD), West Virginia (WV), and Wisconsin (WI).
Oura is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Individuals seeking employment at Oura are considered without regard to age, ancestry, color, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, mental or physical disability, national origin, protected family care or medical leave status, race, religion (including beliefs and practices or the absence thereof), sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. We will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics.
We will work to ensure individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.
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