Senior Specialist, Strategic Initiatives

About Remote
Remote is solving modern organizations' biggest challenge – navigating global employment compliantly with ease. We make it possible for businesses of all sizes to recruit, pay, and manage international teams. With our core values at heart and future focused work culture, our team works tirelessly on ambitious problems, asynchronously, around the world. You can find Remoters working from 6 different continents (Antarctica left to go) and all of our positions are fully remote.

We encourage every member of the Remote team to bring their talents, experiences and culture to the table to help us build the best-in-class HR platform.
 
If you are energetic, curious, motivated and ambitious, be part of our world. Apply now and define the future of workWhat this job can offer you

This is an exciting time to join Remote and make a personal difference in the global employment space as a Senior Specialist, Strategic Initiatives, as part of our Global Payroll and HCM Services team. In this position, within the Global Payroll and HCM Services team, successful candidate will be responsible for supporting and driving a team's key projects and long-term goals by coordinating with senior leadership, managing strategic project execution, and ensuring strategic alignment within the department and cross-functionally. It is a great opportunity to be a key part of all strategic initiatives of the team and work alongside senior leadership in scaling the team and products and services.

What you bring

• Extensive experience in business operations, project management, or a similar role.
• Extensive experience working alongside senior leadership and coordinating projects that translate high-level strategy into actionable plans.
• Demonstrated experience in working cross-functionally on strategic projects with business-wide impact.
• Previous experience leading cross-functional multi-stakeholder projects in a startup/scale up environment.
• Demonstrated experience successfully managing multiple priorities.
• Excellent communication, collaboration and interpersonal skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work asynchronously with a distributed global team.
• You are a  manager of one
• Writes and speaks fluent English.
• It's not required to have experience working remotely, but considered a plus.

Key Responsibilities 

• Work closely with senior leadership of the team to develop and implement projects to achieve team goals.
• Project manage cross-functional strategic projects and initiatives to enhance operational efficiency.
• Prepare and present reports to senior management on operational performance and project progress.
• Collect and analyse data to provide insights into business operations and enable senior leadership decision making.
• Lead communication and coordination among teams to achieve team and company objectives.
• Act as liaision between business operations, leadership, teams and departments to ensure seamless execution of strategic initiatives.
• Champion process optimization, documentation, and automation to improve scalability and consistency.
• Be able to go from "scout to scale" and deliver excellence with intensity and care.
• Be an internal and external champion of Remote's values.

Practicals

• You'll report to: Director of Global HCM and Payroll Services 
• Team: Global Payroll Services
• Location: For this position we welcome everyone to apply, but we will prioritize applications from the following locations as we encourage our teams to diversify; E
• Start date: As soon as possible

Application process

1. Interview with recruiter
2. Interview with future manager
3. Interview with VP, HRIS & Payroll Operations
4. Bar Raiser Interview
5. Prior employment verification check 

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Remote's Total Rewards philosophy is to ensure fair, unbiased compensation and fair equity pay along with competitive benefits in all locations in which we operate. We do not agree to or encourage cheap-labor practices and therefore we ensure to pay above in-location rates. We hope to inspire other companies to support global talent-hiring and bring local wealth to developing countries.

At first glance our salary bands seem quite wide - here is some context. At Remote we have international operations and a globally distributed workforce.  We use geo ranges to consider geographic pay differentials as part of our global compensation strategy to remain competitive in various markets while we hiring globally.

Our salary ranges are determined by role, level and location, and our job titles may span more than one career level. The actual base pay for the successful candidate in this role is dependent upon many factors such as location, transferable or job-related skills, work experience, relevant training, business needs, and market demands. The base salary range may be subject to change.

At Remote, we foster internal mobility as a key element of our culture of employee growth and development, supported by a compensation philosophy that guarantees pay equity and fairness. Therefore, all compensation changes associated with an internal move will be reviewed by the Total Rewards & People Enablement team on a case by case basis.

The annual salary range for this full-time position is $44,200—$99,450 USD Benefits

Our full benefits & perks are explained in our handbook at  As a global company, each country works differently, but some benefits/perks are for all Remoters:

• work from anywhere
• flexible paid time off
• flexible working hours (we are async)
• 16 weeks paid parental leave
• mental health support services
• stock options
• learning budget
• home office budget & IT equipment
• budget for local in-person social events or co-working spaces

How you'll plan your day (and life)

We work async at Remote which means you can plan your schedule around your life (and not around meetings). Read more at

You will be empowered to take ownership and be proactive. When in doubt you will default to action instead of waiting. Your life-work balance is important and you will be encouraged to put yourself and your family first, and fit work around your needs.

If that sounds like something you want, apply now

How to apply

1. Please fill out the form below and upload your CV with a PDF format.
2. We kindly ask you to submit your application and CV in English, as this is the standardised language we use here at Remote.
3. If you don't have an up to date CV but you are still interested in talking to us, please feel free to add a copy of your LinkedIn profile instead.

Not only do we encourage folks from all ethnic groups, genders, sexuality, age, abilities, disability status and any other under-represented group to apply, but we prioritize a sense of belonging. We have 4 ERGs (Women, Disability, Queer, Minorities in Tech) who meet regularly with the People team. During your interviews and beyond, we ask & encourage anybody who needs an accommodation to request one from their recruiter.

We will ask you to voluntarily tell us your pronouns at interview stage, and you will have the option to answer our anonymous demographic questionnaire when you apply below. As an equal employment opportunity employer it's important to us that our workforce reflects people of all backgrounds, identities, and experiences and this data will help us to stay accountable. We thank you for providing this data, if you chose to.

At Remote, we embrace AI as a valuable tool while prioritizing human creativity and authenticity. We look forward to meeting candidates who balance innovation with genuine expertise and experience. To learn more about Remote's AI guidelines check see here. 

Please note we accept applications on an ongoing basis. 

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