Operations Manager | Payroll Solutions

1 giorno fa

Reggio Emilia, Emilia-Romagna, Italia Deel Tempo pieno

Overview

In this role, you will lead automation and operational initiatives across Deel's global payroll processes, building and refining AI-powered workflows with Akai. You will own cross-functional projects across 90+ countries, identify gaps, and surface insights for leadership through dashboards. You'll troubleshoot AI workflows and drive efficiency, accuracy, and speed while maintaining strong controls and regulatory alignment. This is a hands-on, fast-paced position for someone who shapes processes from scratch and partners with engineering, product, and ops teams.

Retribuzione / Benefits

  • Stock grant opportunities
  • Optional flexible working office membership (IWG)
  • Total rewards program
  • Competitive pay in USD with local currency localization

Responsabilità

  • Manage day-to-day operational workflows and identify efficiency improvements
  • Support automation initiatives to reduce manual processes and improve accuracy and speed
  • Partner with cross-functional teams to streamline tools and processes for internal teams and customers
  • Ensure adherence to operational controls, compliance, and risk management
  • Contribute to fraud prevention and regulatory alignment through strong operational standards
  • Monitor performance metrics and escalate risks or gaps to leadership
  • Drive customer-focused process improvements to improve turnaround times and escalation handling
  • Expand and improve self-service options to reduce manual support
  • Coordinate operational readiness for new product or market launches with stakeholders
  • Assist with go-to-market initiatives by removing bottlenecks and ensuring smooth adoption
  • Track and report operational outcomes with insights and recommendations
  • Execute operational projects and strategic initiatives with senior leaders

Requisiti fondamentali

  • 5+ years of operations experience in a fast-paced environment (Tech/FinTech start-up a plus)
  • Comfort with building and troubleshooting AI workflows, not just using AI
  • Engineering background or equivalent technical exposure preferred
  • Experience mentoring small to mid-sized teams
  • Strong problem-solving and detail-oriented mindset with a solutions focus
  • KPI-driven with track/drive performance improvements
  • Exposure to process automation and operational tooling
  • Background in FinTech, consulting, banking, or fast-paced startups preferred
  • Strong analytical skills with the ability to turn data into actionable insights (SQL familiarity a plus)
  • Collaborative team player with high energy and bias for action
  • collaborative team player
  • high energy
  • bias for action
  • AI tools and troubleshooting
  • automation tooling
  • SQL familiarity (data-to-insights)