Senior Global Payroll and Legal Compliance Specialist

Rippling gives businesses one place to run HR, IT, and Finance. It brings together all of the workforce systems that are normally scattered across a company, like payroll, expenses, benefits, and computers. For the first time ever, you can manage and automate every part of the employee lifecycle in a single system.

Take onboarding, for example. With Rippling, you can hire a new employee anywhere in the world and set up their payroll, corporate card, computer, benefits, and even third-party apps like Slack and Microsoft 365—all within 90 seconds.

Based in San Francisco, CA, Rippling has raised $1.4B+ from the world's top investors—including Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, Sequoia, Greenoaks, and Bedrock—and was named one of America's best startup employers by Forbes.

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Rippling is rapidly expanding its Global Payroll product, and France is a key market with unique legal and regulatory challenges. We're looking for a legal-focused Product Compliance Specialist with deep expertise in French employment law to support Rippling's Product Compliance team in France and to help us build a scalable, compliant, and reliable payroll experience for French customers.

In this role, you'll act as the bridge between legal requirements and product execution. You'll translate regulations into clear product logic, support engineering during implementation, and ensure Rippling keeps pace with France's evolving legal landscape.

You'll collaborate closely with Payroll Experts, Product Managers, Engineering teams, and Customer Support teams. This is a highly cross-functional role with direct impact on product quality, customer trust, and our long-term ability to scale in France.

This role is ideal for a jurist or legal professional who understands the key interactions between labor law, payroll rules, and DSN. Experience in tech or within a payroll provider is a strong plus.

French and English fluency (written and verbal) is required.

What you will do

• Legal & regulatory watch: Monitor French labor law, social security updates, and CBA changes that impact payroll and HR processes, and communicate proactively on their impact
• Risk identification: Flag upcoming legal changes and assess potential product or operational impacts. Identify areas where the product may need reinforcement or expansion to remain compliant and scalable
• Draft product guidance: Produce functional specifications and compliance documentation to support payroll logic, edge cases, and regulatory updates
• Interpret and operationalize employment law: Turn legal and regulatory requirements (employment law, social security, CBAs, employment rules) into product requirements that engineering can implement. Draft clear and accurate compliance briefs in partnership with payroll experts to support product development
• CBA integration & expansion: Support the analysis, integration, and maintenance of current and new CBAs within Rippling
• Cross-functional collaboration: Work with Payroll Experts, Payroll Operations, Product Managers, and Engineering teams to scope requirements and provide legal clarity during feature scoping, participate in implementation reviews, and ensure legal accuracy of product behavior
• Contribute to long-term roadmap decisions: Help prioritize legal and compliance needs based on risk, customer impact, and upcoming regulatory trends
• Documentation & guidance: Produce documentation to translate legal requirements into product-ready guidelines
• Support operational teams: Assist payroll experts and support teams when customer questions or escalations require legal interpretation

What you will need

• Legal background: Strong knowledge of French employment law (6+ years of experience)
• Compliance understanding: Ability to interpret legal requirements and translate them into structured, actionable product guidance
• Payroll literacy: Good understanding of French payroll fundamentals, DSN flows and concepts
• Analytical skills: Ability to read, interpret, and synthesize legal texts into concise product requirements
• Collaboration & communication: Comfortable working cross-functionally with payroll experts, engineers, and product teams. Strong communication skills and the ability to explain legal concepts to non-legal audiences
• Strong sense of ownership, autonomy, and attention to detail
• Project management skills: Strong ability to plan, anticipate risks, structure roadmaps, and manage multiple priorities
• Comfort working in a fast-paced tech environment where not everything is clearly defined
• Experience in tech or payroll: Interest in payroll, HRIS products, or regulatory technology Prior experience in a tech environment, HRIS, or payroll provider is a strong advantage
• Languages: Full fluency in French and English

Join us in shaping the future of global payroll at Rippling