01Overview
Papaya Global is a rapidly growing, award-winning B2B tech unicorn with an ambitious mission to revolutionize the payroll & payments industry. With over $400M raised from multiple tier-one investors, our cutting-edge technology provides a comprehensive solution for managing global workforces, encompassing everything from hiring and onboarding to managing and paying employees in over 160 countries.
You will lead the India-based team that customizes, operates, and validates our new payroll engine. You own the execution, quality gates, and readiness call for each project. You report to the Project Manager in Israel.
Your team sits in one place. Almost nothing else does. Global payroll experts, Engineering, Data, and other stakeholders are spread across countries and time zones, and they all depend on what your team produces. That makes communication a core skill of this role, not a soft add-on: you translate regulatory requirements into calculation rules, surface a variance before it becomes a payroll error, and give one explicit answer to people who each see a different part of the problem.
This is a hands-on leadership role. Part of your week goes to reviewing mapping and transformation rules yourself. The rest goes to building a team that can do it without you.
What You'll Own
Execute on a plan.
Own the execution for onboarding existing and recent customers into the current payroll engine. Follow tight timelines and country rollout sequencing, managing estimates, capacity, dependencies, and the critical path. Escalate risks to the Project Manager before they become missed payroll cycles.
The team.
Hire, onboard, and ramp up a team of up to 10 members in India. Conduct 1:1s, set objectives, manage performance, and build the team's expertise in payroll logic and data tooling.
Quality as a system.
Own the validation framework, including test datasets, output validation, definition of done, defect triage, and turnaround targets.
Technical review.
Review transformation a .
