Payroll Manager

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Outside Interactive, Inc., the premier hub for active lifestyle enthusiasts, offers best-in-class content and experiences to more than 70 million of the world’s most passionate outdoor, wellness, and endurance enthusiasts every month. We inspire a broad and diverse audience to do the activities they love with greater enjoyment, inspiration, and knowledge and are dedicated to making real change in the outdoor and fitness industries.

We're looking for a Payroll Manager to take full ownership of our multi-country payroll operations, ensuring every paycheck reflects accuracy, compliance, and care. This role requires someone experienced in U.S. and Canadian payroll, highly proficient in Rippling, and comfortable navigating international payroll via Employer of Record (EOR) partners.

You’ll also lead payroll audits, support HR compliance, and act as a clear communicator to employees when it comes to understanding paycheck deductions, benefits costs, and retirement contributions. This is both a tactical and strategic role with a direct impact on employee trust and financial accuracy.

• Run end-to-end payroll for salaried and hourly employees in the U.S., Canada and Germany, processing multiple payroll frequencies (bi-weekly, semi-monthly, and monthly) for various entities, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and tax compliance.
  
• Act as the point of contact for payroll in the UK and France, collaborating with Employer of Record partners to ensure proper payments and documentation.
  
• Serve as our internal Rippling expert — managing payroll workflows, audits, reporting, and system optimizations.
  
• Work with the Benefits and People Ops teams to ensure accurate deduction setup for medical, dental, vision, HSA/FSA, and 401(k) programs.
  
• Ensure accurate processing of both exempt and non-exempt employee payrolls, including complex pay structures such as overtime, bonuses, commissions, and variable compensation.
  
• Collaborate with Finance on reconciliations, payroll allocations, and forecast modeling.
  
• Educate employees on their paychecks, benefit deductions, tax withholdings, and retirement contributions — breaking down complex topics in a clear, helpful way.
  
• Lead and execute regular payroll audits, ensuring compliance with state and federal wage and hour laws.
  
• Support HR compliance-related tasks including wage garnishments, payroll records retention, pay equity reporting, and employee classification reviews.
  
• Stay current on legislation impacting payroll, tax codes, and benefit deductions, proactively advising on necessary changes.
  

• Mastery of Rippling — including payroll processing, auditing, and advanced reporting
  
• 5+ years of hands-on payroll experience, with multi-state U.S. payroll expertise required
  
• Strong experience managing Canadian payroll, and exposure to German payroll practices
  
• Comfort working with EOR providers in the UK and France to ensure compliance and accurate payments
  
• Strong understanding of benefits cost structures, paycheck deductions, 401(k) plans, and tax withholdings
  
• Meticulous attention to detail and a high standard of accuracy
  
• Clear communicator, especially when explaining pay and benefits to employees
  
• Discretion and professionalism in handling sensitive data and employee information

What We Offer:

Entirely remote jobs that could be performed in Colorado: Employees can expect to be paid a salary of between $75,000 to $100,000. Additional benefits include health care, vision, dental, retirement, Flexible Time Away,  sick leave, and more.  This salary range is merely an estimate and may vary based on an applicant’s location, market data/ranges, an applicant’s skills and prior relevant experience, certain degrees and certifications, and other relevant factors.