# Sr. Manager, Payroll

**Company**: Databricks
**Location**: San Francisco, California
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: Zone 1: $189,300-$260,250 USD
Zone 2: $170,300-$234,200 USD
Zone 3: $160,900-$221,200 USD
Zone 4: $151,400-$208,250 USD
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18350420

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## Description

Databricks is seeking a Senior Manager, Payroll to oversee end-to-end payroll delivery for the United States and Canada.

This hands-on leadership role involves running operations, leading a team, managing compliance, and serving as a subject matter expert.

The successful candidate will sit within the Global Payroll function, reporting to the Senior Director, Head of Global Payroll, and contribute to global strategy and cross-regional alignment.

Key responsibilities include:

- Managing a team of four to five payroll professionals

- Ensuring accurate, timely, and compliant payroll for a fast-scaling workforce across multiple US states and Canadian provinces

- Owning the full payroll cycle for all US and Canadian employees

- Serving as the primary escalation point for payroll discrepancies and operational issues

- Driving continuous improvement across payroll processes

- Working with Workday Payroll and Workday HCM, ADP Smart Compliance, and other systems

- Ensuring compliance with federal, state, and local payroll tax obligations

- Managing equity and supplemental compensation payroll processing

- Leading, developing, and performance-managing a team

- Designing and maintaining SOX-compliant payroll controls

Requirements:

- 8+ years of hands-on US and Canada payroll experience, with at least 3 years in a leadership role

- Deep working knowledge of US multi-state payroll tax and Canadian payroll compliance

- Proven experience managing RSU and equity payroll

- Strong command of payroll reconciliation and general ledger mapping

- Experience leading teams of four or more people

Preferred qualifications:

- Experience with Workday Payroll and Workday HCM

- Hands-on experience with ADP Smart Compliance

- Familiarity with Shareworks for stock plan administration and equity payroll integration

The pay range for this role is: Zone 1: $189,300-$260,250 USD Zone 2: $170,300-$234,200 USD Zone 3: $160,900-$221,200 USD Zone 4: $151,400-$208,250 USD

## Skills

### Required
- US multi-state payroll tax
- Canadian payroll compliance
- Payroll reconciliation
- General ledger mapping
- Team leadership

### Nice to have
- Workday Payroll
- Workday HCM
- ADP Smart Compliance
- Shareworks

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