Global Workday Payroll & HCM Manager — Equity & Impact

Carta, Inc.; New York, Northern (NY, KY); Hybrid; USD 160,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Carta, Inc. is seeking a Workday Payroll/HCM Manager to lead global payroll configuration and optimization. You will own day-to-day accuracy, compliance, and scalable integrations across Workday modules, partnering with the People team to support 2,000+ Cartans worldwide.

The role focuses on ensuring timely, accurate pay, coordinating with HRIS and Integrations teams, and supporting global payroll initiatives. Equity is part of the compensation for full-time roles.

Qualifications

• 6-8+ years of hands-on Workday Payroll configuration experience.
• Strong background in Core HCM, including organizations, staffing, and business process configuration.
• Solid understanding of payroll fundamentals: earnings, deductions, tax setup, and pay calculation.
• Experience partnering with cross-functional stakeholders, especially People/HR, to translate business needs into system configuration.
• Comfortable managing configuration changes through testing, validation, and release cycles.
• Strong attention to detail and a compliance-first mindset.
• Proven experience translating business requirements into technical system settings.
• A detail-oriented professional with a strong commitment to regulatory compliance.

Responsibilities

• Own Payroll Configuration: Lead the configuration, maintenance, and troubleshooting of the Workday Payroll module, ensuring accurate and compliant calculations, earnings, deductions, and pay results every pay cycle.
• Build Scalable Integration: Design payroll configuration that integrates cleanly and scalably with Core HCM, Time Tracking, Absence, Compensation, and Benefits, partnering with HRIS and Integrations teams as needed.
• Own the Stakeholder Relationship: Serve as the primary liaison between Payroll and People teams, owning the payroll stakeholder relationship and translating business needs into Workday configuration.
• Anchor in Core HCM: Maintain a strong working knowledge of Core HCM — organizations, staffing, and staffing — to ensure Payroll decisions align with the broader HCM foundation.
• Drive Testing & Releases: Lead payroll-impact analysis, regression testing, and validation for Workday releases and configuration changes before they reach production.
• Troubleshoot & Resolve: Serve as the escalation point for payroll configuration issues, partnering with Payroll Operations to diagnose root causes and implement fixes.
• Document & Govern: Maintain clear configuration documentation and governance practices so payroll setup stays auditable, consistent, and easy to hand off.

Skills

Workday Payroll configuration

Core HCM

Payroll fundamentals

Cross-functional collaboration

Testing & releases

Regulatory compliance

Configuration documentation

Workday integrations

Tools

Workday

EIB / Core Connectors

Job description

Carta, Inc. is seeking a Workday Payroll/HCM Manager to lead global payroll configuration and optimization. You will own day-to-day accuracy, compliance, and scalable integrations across Workday modules, partnering with the People team to support 2,000+ Cartans worldwide.

The role focuses on ensuring timely, accurate pay, coordinating with HRIS and Integrations teams, and supporting global payroll initiatives. Equity is part of the compensation for full-time roles.