Senior Global Payroll Compliance Specialist
About Rippling
Rippling gives businesses one place to run HR, IT, and Finance. It brings together all of the workforce systems that are normally scattered across a company, like payroll, expenses, benefits, and computers. For the first time ever, you can manage and automate every part of the employee lifecycle in a single system.
Take onboarding, for example. With Rippling, you can hire a new employee anywhere in the world and set up their payroll, corporate card, computer, benefits, and even third-party apps like Slack and Microsoft 365—all within 90 seconds.
Based in San Francisco, CA, Rippling has raised $1.4B+ from the world’s top investors—including Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, Sequoia, Greenoaks, and Bedrock—and was named one of America's best startup employers by Forbes.
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About the role
Rippling is rapidly expanding its Global Payroll product, and France is one of our most complex payroll markets. We’re looking for a payroll-focused Compliance Specialist with strong expertise in French payroll rules, DSN, and social security regulations to support Rippling’s Product Compliance team.
In this role, you will translate French payroll regulations into clear product requirements, validate payroll logic, and ensure the accuracy and reliability of payroll computations as we scale in France. You’ll work closely with a Legal Expert, Product Managers, Engineering, and Payroll Operations to ensure that features are correctly scoped, implemented, and maintained as regulations evolve.
This role is ideal for an experienced French payroll professional who understands the interaction between payroll calculations, DSN flows, and regulatory requirements, and who wants to contribute directly to building a scalable and compliant payroll engine.
Full fluency in French and English (written and verbal) is required.
What you will do
Regulatory & payroll compliance
- Monitor payroll-related regulatory updates (social security, DSN, tax rules, contributions, thresholds) and communicate their impact on product logic
- Identify upcoming regulatory changes that affect payroll calculations or DSN reporting
- Analyze payroll rules and edge cases to ensure correct and compliant product behavior
Payroll requirements & documentation
- Produce detailed payroll specifications and compliance briefs for new features or updates
- Translate payroll regulations into structured, product-ready requirements
- Support the creation of documentation that clarifies rules, edge cases, and compliance expectations for internal teams
Payroll logic validation
- Review, test, and validate payroll computations to ensure accuracy and compliance
- Help identify inconsistencies, gaps, or risks in existing payroll logic and propose corrections
- Support QA and engineering during implementation and testing cycles
DSN & contributions
- Support DSN-related scoping, mapping, and validation to ensure accurate reporting
- Help maintain alignment between payroll calculations and DSN obligations
Cross-functional collaboration
- Partner with Product Managers, Engineers, Legal Experts, and Ops teams to scope requirements and ensure correct understanding of payroll rules
- Provide clarity on payroll edge cases and regulatory constraints during product development
- Support operational teams when escalations require payroll or regulatory interpretation
Contribute to scalability & continuous improvement
- Identify areas where payroll logic, workflows, or automation can be strengthened to reduce manual work and improve accuracy
- Provide input into long-term payroll roadmap prioritization based on compliance risks and customer needs
What you will need
Payroll expertise
- 6+ years of hands-on experience in French payroll, ideally in a payroll provider or outsourcing environment
- Strong knowledge of French payroll fundamentals, contributions, taxes, exemptions, and edge cases
- Good understanding of DSN concepts, structures, and reporting constraints
Compliance & analytical skills
- Ability to interpret payroll-related regulations and translate them into actionable product requirements
- Strong analytical mindset with the ability to understand, test, and validate payroll logic
Collaboration & communication
- Comfortable working cross-functionally with legal experts, engineers, product teams, and operations
- Ability to explain complex payroll rules to non-payroll audiences clearly and concisely
Work style
- Strong sense of ownership, autonomy, and attention to detail
- Solid project management and prioritization skills
- Comfort working in a fast-paced, evolving tech environment
Nice to have
- Experience in SaaS, HRIS, or payroll software
- Experience supporting automation or system implementations
Languages
- Full fluency in French and English