Payroll and Hiring Generalist

Your Mission, Should You Choose To Accept

At Expensify, our people are at the heart of everything we do, and a great employee experience starts with the basics: getting paid, having wonderful experiences, and surrounded by incredible teammates. We’re excited to add a Payroll & Hiring Generalist to help us keep our team happy, supported, and excited to be here.

In this role, you’ll ensure seamless payroll for our U.S. employees through our in-house system, while also supporting payroll for our international employees and contractors. You’ll help grow our global team by reviewing applications, speaking with candidates, and refining our unique hiring process. And along the way, you’ll join in the fun side of our culture too, from our annual Onshore gathering to our three-week Offshore adventure abroad.

Payroll and Hiring Generalist At Expensify

Payroll & Compliance:

• Run payroll for U.S. employees using Expensify’s proprietary in-house payroll system.

• Support payroll administration for international employees and contractors across entities.

• Ensure compliance with U.S. federal, state, and local tax and benefits regulations, as well as international requirements.

• Support quarterly equity events, SOX controls, and compliance tasks.

• Partner with Finance to reconcile payroll records and ensure reporting accuracy.

• Become a subject matter expert on our U.S. payroll system and collaborate with engineering on improvements.

Hiring & Recruiting:

• Find great candidates, connect with them through phone screens, and keep the hiring pipeline moving by coordinating interviews and communications. 

• Suggest and implement improvements and automation to our hiring process as we expand. 

• Get creative with sourcing strategies to identify hard-to-find talent. 

• Help build and maintain strong pipelines for our ongoing roles.

Culture & Events:

• Jump in to support planning for our annual Onshore and Offshore events.

• Help maintain Expensify’s unique, fun, and connected culture across offices.

About You

• You have payroll experience, with a strong grasp of U.S. payroll (taxes, benefits, compliance) and exposure to international employees or contractors.

• You’re detail-oriented and dependable, you’re the type of person that sweats the small stuff!

• You’re curious about people and excited to keep building our diverse team

• You manage your time well and can easily reprioritize when new tasks or challenges come up

• You’re collaborative and flexible, happy to pitch in on culture-building projects when needed

• Bonus points: you have experience automating back office processes with AI or using Alteryx

• You’re based in Portland, OR or San Francisco, CA.

Compensation & Benefits

• Full-time salaried position with starting compensation of 90,000 - 130,000 USD, including equity

• 401 (k) with up to 4.5% employer match

• 100% Medical/Dental/Vision contributions

• Up to $20k on fertility, adoption, or annual family planning benefits through Carrot

• Free lunch when you work from the office!

• Up to three months of fully paid parental leave, with up to six months for birthing parents

• Commuter benefits

• Flexible vacation policy

Next Steps

Like what you see? Applying is easy, but it takes time. See, while we know you're awesome, it's actually really hard and time-consuming to find you in the midst of literally hundreds of other applications we get from everyone else. So this is where we're going to ask our first favor: can you make it really easy and obvious how great you are, so we don't accidentally overlook you? There are many ways to do that, but the easiest way to help us out is by answering the following questions:

1. Are you currently located in San Francisco CA, or Portland OR?

2. When did you first start supporting people at work, and what have you been doing since then?

3. What is your proudest success story from your career so far?

4. Can you share an example of a time you turned a complicated or messy process into something clear and easy for others? How did you do it, and what difference did it make?

5. What do you want to do with the rest of your life, and how is Expensify a step toward your long-term goals?(We’re serious, we want to know! Share what you’re comfortable sharing, but we are a group of ambitious individuals building a community of people who want to achieve success in every aspect of our lives, and we encourage employees to figure out how they can use Expensify to realize their personal goals with the support of the company around them.) 

6. How did you hear about us? A job posting? Chalk on a sidewalk? From a friend? Let us know where you saw this opening.

Please note that we are only looking for candidates who are based in San Francisco, CA, or Portland, OR.

Resume not your thing? That’s great, we don’t really read them anyway! Forward your responses to the questions to apply@expensify.com. We're excited to hear from you!

We’re committed to providing a fair and inclusive hiring experience. If you need a reasonable accommodation at any stage of the process, just let us know—we’re happy to help