In-House Payroll Architect & Automation Lead

Suno; New York (NY); On-site; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Retirement match (3% Safe Harbor)

Medical, dental & vision insurance

Commuter benefit stipend

Free lunch 5 days a week

Unlimited PTO & unlimited sick days +

11 company holidays

Creative education stipend

Parental leave (16 weeks)

Job summary

Suno is hiring a Payroll Accounting Manager to own end-to-end payroll across all cycles for a fast-growing Series D company. You will ensure accurate, on-time payments, maintain compliance across federal, state, and local rules, and partner with People and third-party providers.

The role emphasizes building scalable processes, governance, and automation. The ideal candidate has 5–7 years of hands-on payroll experience, strong multi-state knowledge, and experience with systems like Rippling,

Qualifications

• 5–7 years of payroll experience with end-to-end ownership
• Deep knowledge of multi-state payroll compliance (tax withholding, wage-and-hour, year-end)
• Hands-on experience with payroll systems and third-party providers (Rippling, Gusto, ADP, Workday) including implementations or transitions
• International payroll compliance experience, ideally via 3rd party EOR
• Experience bringing payroll in-house or standing up a payroll function from scratch
• Equity/stock-based compensation payroll (RSUs, options, ESPP) and global/multi-entity payroll exposure
• Consumer tech or other high-growth environment experience
• Demonstrated, measured use of AI and automation to speed/payroll accuracy

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end payroll processing across all pay cycles
• Manage compliance across federal, state, and local requirements (tax withholding, filings, wage-and-hour, garnishments, year-end)
• Partner with People team on onboarding, compensation changes, benefits and equity payroll, and off-boarding
• Manage third-party payroll providers and reconcile payroll to the GL
• Build policies, controls, and documentation to scale payroll, audit-ready and self-service as the team grows
• Bring AI and automation to payroll with guardrails to improve speed and accuracy

Skills

Payroll processing

Payroll compliance

Automation / AI in payroll

End-to-end ownership

Confidentiality

Multi-state payroll knowledge

Third-party payroll systems experience

Equity payroll

In-house payroll setup

GL reconciliation

Education

CPP (Certified Payroll Professional) or FPC certification

Tools

Rippling

Gusto

ADP

Workday

Job description

Suno is hiring a Payroll Accounting Manager to own end-to-end payroll across all cycles for a fast-growing Series D company. You will ensure accurate, on-time payments, maintain compliance across federal, state, and local rules, and partner with People and third-party providers.

The role emphasizes building scalable processes, governance, and automation. The ideal candidate has 5–7 years of hands-on payroll experience, strong multi-state knowledge, and experience with systems like Rippling,