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US Payroll and Tax Lead

rise-works4 open roles

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$110,000 – $135,000 a yearly
Where
United States
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US Payroll and Tax Lead

About Rise

Rise is a global payroll and workforce platform. We help companies hire, pay, and manage employees and contractors anywhere in the world, through our own technology. We're in an active growth phase, launching new products and expanding into new markets, and we're looking for people who want to build alongside us.

The Role

You'll own the full US payroll and tax function: processing, filings, remittances, agency registrations, and year-end reporting across our own employees and the employers we service through our payroll platform.

There's no existing playbook to follow here. You'll be building the processes and controls from scratch, which is exactly the point. We're looking for someone who sees that as the interesting part of the job, not the downside.

You'll also be our closest internal user of the Rise platform itself. When something doesn't work the way it should for US payroll or tax, you'll be the one who spots it first and works directly with our product and engineering teams to get it fixed. Your day-to-day experience will have a real influence on what we build.

What You'll Be Doing

Payroll processing

  • Run end-to-end payroll cycles for our US employee population and the client employers we service, covering wages, deductions, benefits, and garnishments
  • Own the payroll calendar and keep delivery accurate and on time across all pay schedules
  • Handle off-cycle runs and corrections as they come up

Tax filings and compliance

  • Prepare and submit all federal, state, and local payroll tax filings and remittances across all 50 states and DC
  • File all quarterly and annual returns, including W-2s and 1099s, accurately and on time
  • Complete employer registrations and tax account setup in new states and localities as we grow
  • Own the compliance tracker and filing calendar so nothing slips through
  • Manage agency notices and resolve tax discrepancies and audit requests across all active jurisdictions

Client support

  • Be the person our direct payroll customers turn to when they hit a complex compliance question, a tax notice, or an issue they can't figure out on their own
  • Help them get to the right answer quickly

Process and documentation

Write the SOPs for payroll processing, filings, reconciliations, and year-end work

Build audit-ready records and practical controls into everything we do

Product collaboration

  • Use the Rise platform to do your job and tell us honestly where it falls short
  • Work with product and engineering to turn compliance requirements into features that actually work

What We're Looking For

Essential

  • 6+ years of US payroll experience, including processing payroll and filing employment taxes for multiple client employers (multiple EINs) in a payroll service bureau, PEO, EOR, or outsourced payroll environment
  • Background in a payroll services, EOR, or PEO environment, where you were responsible for payroll and tax on behalf of client employers, not just internal employees
  • Personally prepared and filed 941, 940, state withholding and SUI returns, and W-2/W-3 transmittals, along with the associated remittances across federal, state, and local jurisdictions
  • Experience with tax account registrations in 15+ states
  • Garnishment administration across multiple client employers
  • Solid working knowledge of multi-state withholding, unemployment tax, W-2 and 1099 requirements, and quarterly and annual return obligations
  • A track record of building processes and controls in environments that weren't fully built out yet
  • Sharp attention to detail and strong reconciliation habits

Strongly preferred

  • Familiarity with payroll tax engines such as MasterTax or Symmetry
  • CPP (Certified Payroll Professional) designation
  • Experience handling tax notices and agency inquiries across multiple jurisdictions

Why Rise

If you want a role where you can see the direct impact of your work, this is it. You'll own a critical function, build it properly from the start, and have a real say in how our product develops. We're a small team doing hard things, and we're looking for people who are genuinely energized by that.

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