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.
With Innovation as one of the core values, we have built Automation and AI capabilities into the requirements for every role.
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 work!
What this job can offer you
We are looking for a Manager, Time & Attendance to own the planning, implementation, and service delivery for the Lifecycle Time & Attendance team.
Reporting to the Senior Manager of Lifecycle Operations Time & Attendance, this is an exciting time to join Remote and make a personal impact in the global employment space in our growing Lifecycle Operations team.
As a critical extension of our clients HR teams, we navigate and advise on the intricate paths of global employment with unmatched speed, expertise, and precision. The vision of the Lifecycle team at Remote is not just about maintaining the gold standard in HR practices; its about elevating it, integrating cutting-edge technology solutions, and enriching customer experiences in over 80+ countries. On this team, your work directly influences our ability to sustain and extend our compliance coverage, continuously enhance our customer journeys, and significantly increase our operational capacity. Youre not just part of a team; youre at the forefront of shaping the future of work, ensuring every interaction is fast, intuitive, and profoundly impactful. Dive into a role where your passion for innovation, commitment to excellence, and drive to make a global difference aligns with our mission to empower organizations worldwide to employ anyone, anywhere compliantly.
What you bring
This role requires a blend of hands-on people management, deep international HR operations knowledge, and specialized expertise in the legal and employee relations complexities of Time & Attendance (T&A).
- Management & Coaching: You have hands-on people management experience with a strong coaching mindset, specifically leading distributed, international teams.
- International HR Ops: You have a proven track record of experience in HR Operations across multiple countries.
- T&A & Compliance Expertise: You possess deep knowledge of Time & Attendance matters, associated wage/hour laws, complex policy exceptions, and disciplinary processes in various jurisdictions.
- Jurisdictional Focus: You have a deep knowledge of complex T&A case resolution, wage/hour compliance, and managing policy discrepancies under labor law in APAC countries.
- Environment: Experience working in a fast-paced, international, scale-up environment.
- Service & Drive: Passionate about accomplishing goals, you are comfortable working in a service level environment (SLAs/KPIs), with an emphasis on continuous improvement and customer satisfaction.
- Technical Acumen: Youre tech-savvy and have experience working with a variety of digital tools, with an eye toward process optimization and automation.
- Language: You write and speak fluent English.
- Data Integrity: You can safely manage and maintain employee data and confidential information, adhering to established protocols while ensuring utmost professionalism and discretion in high-stakes T&A cases.
- Desired Skills (A Plus); Startup, remote working experience and other languages besides English.
Key Responsibilities
- People & Team Leadership: Guide, coach, and develop direct reports to build a high-performing T&A team.
- Culture: Foster a positive team culture across international borders in a remote, asynchronous environment that encourages excellence and innovation.
- Performance Management: Lead performance management by overseeing bi-annual evaluations and aligning individual and team goals with business objectives in our high-performance culture.
- Team Growth: Drive recruitment, training, mentoring, and supervision of the regional team to support their professional growth.
- Complex Case Resolution (ER Scope): Serve as a subject matter expert and the final escalation point on all high-risk Time & Attendance related topics, including complex wage-hour disputes, policy interpretation, and potential disciplinary matters related to timekeeping compliance.
- Cross-Functional Partnership: Partner across domainsincluding Operations, Product, Engineering, Legal, and Employee Relations (ER)to enhance T&A processes, workflows, and standard operating procedures (SOPs).
- Process Optimization: Improve & optimize the Lifecycle T&A team's processes, existing workflows and tools, including identifying opportunities for automation to improve quality, efficiency and drive scale.
- Service Delivery: Ensure efficient, compliant delivery of Time & Attendance services while meeting KPIs and SLAs.
- Risk Mitigation: Safely manage and maintain employee data and confidential information, and advise on best practices to handle sensitive T&A records and investigations with discretion.
- Strategic Resolution: Resolve escalated T&A issues through detailed analysis, including advising on or conducting internal investigations into serious attendance or timekeeping discrepancies, and implementing improvements that drive compliance and business growth.
- AI Enablement: Champion the responsible adoption of AI-assisted tools within the T&A team identifying opportunities, running pilots, establishing guardrails, and scaling what works. Ensure team members are equipped and confident to use AI tools within Remote's data handling and compliance guidelines.
Practicals
- You'll report to: Senior Manager Lifecycle: Time & Attendance
- Team: Lifecycle Operations - Time & Attendance
- 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; APAC
- Start date: As soon as possible
Application process
- Interview with recruiter
- Interview with team members (no managers present)
- Interview with future manager
- Interview with Senior Director
- Bar Raiser Interview
- Prior employment verification check
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
$48,850—$109,900 USD
Benefits
Our full benefits & perks are explained in our handbook at
remote.com/r/benefits. 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 youll 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 remote.com/async.
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
- Please fill out the form below and upload your CV with a PDF format.
- We kindly ask you to submit your application and CV in English, as this is the standardised language we use here at Remote.
- If you dont 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 its 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.
