Italy Payroll & HR Product Lead (Greenfield)

Deel; Modena; Remote; EUR 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock grant opportunities

Flexible office membership

Equity-for-all commitment

Country-specific perks

Job summary

Deel is seeking a leader for payroll operations in Italy. You will own the product strategy and collaborate with engineering and compliance teams. Your goal is to shape Deel’s Mediterranean expansion while ensuring compliance with Italian labor laws.

This position offers the chance to drive innovation in payroll, HR, and time-tracking solutions. You will be key in establishing Deel’s presence in Southern Europe.

Qualifications

• Fluent in Italian and English for coordination.
• Comfort with ambiguity and decision-making with incomplete information.
• Strong stakeholder management across teams.

Responsibilities

• Define the product strategy for the Italian market.
• Lead an engineering team to execute the roadmap.
• Coordinate dependencies across teams.
• Break complex requirements into increments.
• Own relationships with key accounts.
• Collaborate with sales and compliance teams.
• Build a market entry playbook from scratch.
• Leverage AI to ensure regulatory compliance.
• Master Italian labor law for compliance.
• Position Italy as the anchor market.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Ambition

Entrepreneurial mindset

Communication

Collaboration

Deep understanding of Italian labor

Payroll product capabilities

Complex requirements handling

Job description

Deel is seeking a leader for payroll operations in Italy. You will own the product strategy and collaborate with engineering and compliance teams. Your goal is to shape Deel’s Mediterranean expansion while ensuring compliance with Italian labor laws.

This position offers the chance to drive innovation in payroll, HR, and time-tracking solutions. You will be key in establishing Deel’s presence in Southern Europe.