Strategic Leader, Americas Payroll & Compliance

Candidate; United States; Hybrid; USD 147,000 - 302,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Base salary transparency

Job summary

Pinterest is seeking a Sr. Manager, Americas Payroll to lead payroll operations across Argentina, Canada, Brazil, Mexico, and the United States.

This role partners with global payroll and employment tax teams to scale processes and ensure compliance while supporting growth across the Americas. You will work with internal stakeholders and external providers to deliver accurate payroll outcomes with a strong focus on governance and controls.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 8 years of experience in payroll, including significant experience leading Americas payroll operations across multiple countries.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in a payroll leadership role, including leading teams and driving results in a complex, fast-paced global environment.
• Experience in payroll operations across a broad Americas footprint, ideally spanning US, Canada and Latin America.
• Experience in Americas payroll compliance, including statutory filings, tax withholding, social insurance requirements, year-end processes and audit support across multiple jurisdictions.
• Experience in building and improving payroll processes, controls and operating procedures that increase accuracy, efficiency and scalability.
• Experience partnering with Accounting, Finance, Legal, Tax, People, Equity and external payroll providers to deliver compliant payroll outcomes.
• Demonstrated experience using AI to improve speed and quality in day-to-day work such as analysis, documentation and reporting, with a clear approach to validating accuracy and quality.
• Strong track record of critical evaluation and verification of AI-assisted work, including testing, source-checking, data validation and peer review where appropriate.
• High integrity and ownership in handling sensitive employee and payroll data, with accountability for final decisions and deliverables.
• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, Human Resources, a related field or equivalent experience

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end Americas payroll operations across Argentina, Canada, Brazil, Mexico, and United States ensuring accurate and timely payroll processing across multiple entities, pay groups and jurisdictions
• Partner with the rest of the Global Payroll & Employment Tax Team to execute the Americas payroll strategy and scale processes that support Pinterest’s growth across the Americas
• Oversee Americas payroll compliance, including statutory requirements, tax withholding, social contributions, year-end reporting, local filings and audit readiness across supported countries
• Drive payroll process improvements through standardization, workflow optimization, automation and strong partnership with internal systems teams and external payroll vendors
• Build and strengthen payroll controls, governance and documentation to reduce risk, improve consistency and support accurate financial reporting
• Partner closely with Accounting, Finance, Legal, Tax, People, Total Rewards, Equity and HR operations teams to ensure payroll outcomes align with company policies and country-specific requirements
• Support complex Americas payroll matters, including cross-border employee movements, global mobility, shadow payroll coordination and equity-related payroll impacts
• Use AI to accelerate analysis, reporting and process documentation, while applying judgment and verification to ensure accuracy, compliance and quality

Skills

Payroll leadership

Americas experience

Compliance

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

AI tools

Job description

Pinterest is seeking a Sr. Manager, Americas Payroll to lead payroll operations across Argentina, Canada, Brazil, Mexico, and the United States.

This role partners with global payroll and employment tax teams to scale processes and ensure compliance while supporting growth across the Americas. You will work with internal stakeholders and external providers to deliver accurate payroll outcomes with a strong focus on governance and controls.