# Global payroll manager

About Watershed Watershed is the enterprise sustainability platform. Companies like Airbnb, Carlyle Group, FedEx, Visa, and Dr. Martens use Watershed to manage climate and ESG data, produce audit-ready metrics for voluntary and regulatory reporting including CSRD, and drive real decarbonization. We are looking for team members who love product-building, want to work hard at a mission-oriented startup, and will collaborate with us in shaping the culture of a growing team. We have offices in San Francisco, New York, Denver, London, Paris, Berlin, Sydney, Mexico City, and remote team members across the US and Europe. We hope that you'll be interested in joining us! The role As our first dedicated payroll leader, you'll own payroll at Watershed end to end and build the controls, processes, and automation that let us grow headcount and geographies without growing manual work. You'll run payroll for our US and UK entities and oversee in-country payroll in Mexico and through our EOR partners. This role is hands-on. You’ll run our day-to-day payroll operations while building the processes and automation that let the function scale as we expand. You'll partner closely with People Ops, Accou

- **Id**: 3984906
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/watershed-global-payroll-manager>
- **Role**: Finance
- **Role family**: Finance
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 7
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-09T19:41:57Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-09
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T21:13:59Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 6082
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: ESG & Carbon Accounting Software

## Company

- **Id**: 7207
- **Name**: Watershed
- **Domain**: watershed.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/watershed>
- **Size band**: 201-500
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 87
- **Open postings**: 3
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.333
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 88
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 166500
- **Max**: 190000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 190000

## Technologies

- **Microsoft Excel** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 7
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-09T21:13:59Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 7 · green card filings: 2; Filings 12m: 7

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 88
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T22:33:00Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 190000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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