Mid Level Payroll Implementation Specialist Jobs
Mid level payroll implementation specialist jobs go to professionals ready to own full client deployment cycles, guide junior team members, and make configuration decisions with minimal oversight. Openings are concentrated in Technology & Software, Consulting & Professional Services, and Banking & Financial Services, with a mix of on-site, remote, and hybrid settings across employers like Rippling, Apple, and Airwallex hiring at this level now.
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About Airwallex
Airwallex is the AI-native financial operating system for a real-time, intelligent economy. More than 675,000 businesses, including McLaren Racing, Qantas, SHEIN, and TikTok, use us, directly or through our platform partners, to run their financial operations or build and monetize financial products of their own. We started in Melbourne in 2015 to build the infrastructure global commerce runs on. We're the regulated backbone behind global payments: not by accident, but by design. A decade plus, 85+ licenses, and a financial infrastructure spanning North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific. We're co-headquartered in San Francisco and Singapore, with more than 2,700 people across 27 offices. We hire builders with founder-level energy, people who move fast with good judgment, dig in with real curiosity, and make calls from first principles rather than waiting to be told what to do. Read our operating principles to see it in full.
About The Team
The Merchant Services team partners with our clients to realise their full potential through the adoption of Airwallex products that drive their growth and success. We influence revenue growth across our entire product portfolio and collaborate with sales, strategy, product, and engineering teams to provide the best experience for our most valued customers. Our team works alongside commercial teams throughout the pre-sales, solution design, and API integration stages, serving as the single technical point of contact and trusted advisor for our clients. We are committed to empowering businesses with the tools our clients need to succeed in a dynamic market.
What You’ll Do
As a Technical Implementation Manager, you will own the end-to-end delivery of complex client integrations that bring our global payments and financial products to life for enterprise partners, shopping carts, and payment gateways. You will turn agreed business requirements and solution designs into actionable plans, orchestrating cross-functional teams and external stakeholders to deliver on time, on scope, and to a high quality bar. You’ll sit at the intersection of Sales, Solutions Engineering, Product, and Operations, ensuring that every phase from pre-sale through go-live and early optimisation runs smoothly. This role can be based in SF, NYC, Seattle or Toronto (with 3 days in office requirement).
Responsibilities
- Take agreed business requirements and solution proposals and translate them into comprehensive project delivery plans, operating rhythms, and execution strategies for end-to-end partner integrations (from scoping through full launch).
- Own overall project management for client product integrations, including internal and external communication, risk and dependency management, and day-to-day orchestration of workstreams across onboarding, configuration, testing/certification, and pilot/launch.
- Lead the delivery of partner projects in close collaboration with integration engineers and other technical stakeholders, ensuring functional flows, architecture, and timelines are clearly understood and adhered to.
- Drive a core project team across all phases of the sales and delivery lifecycle: pre-delivery with commercial/sales managers and solution architects, delivery with solution engineers, and post-delivery with technical account managers and support/operations teams.
- Coordinate cross-functional approvals and inputs from internal stakeholders (e.g., legal, compliance, privacy, risk, operations, finance, product) to secure timely sign-off on proposed solution designs and integration approaches.
- Partner with internal product and engineering teams to prioritise solution requirements needed for a given integration, balancing roadmap constraints with committed client timelines and escalating trade-offs where required.
- Collaborate with internal PMO or program functions to align partner-specific delivery milestones with broader product roadmaps and operational readiness plans.
- Apply professional services methodologies and disciplined project management practices (governance, RAID logs, KPIs, status reporting) to manage complex, multi-workstream efforts spanning multiple regions and stakeholder groups.
- Track and communicate clear metrics across your portfolio (e.g., time-to-go-live, adherence to plan, quality of launch) and lead structured post-launch reviews to drive continuous improvement of our integration playbooks.
Who You Are
We're looking for people who meet the minimum requirements for this role. The preferred qualifications are great to have, but are not mandatory.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in a related field.
- 5+ years of experience in Product Delivery Management or Project Management, managing complex, multi-stakeholder technology or financial services implementations.
- 5+ years of professional services or client-facing delivery experience in a high-paced environment (e.g., consulting, systems integration, or enterprise implementation).
- Demonstrated experience with global payment products or technology-led business solutions, and the ability to translate product capabilities into practical integration plans for partners.
- Proven track record of successfully delivering cross-functional projects with stakeholders from diverse backgrounds and job functions, including C-level executives, technical teams, and operations.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication and presentation skills, including the ability to lead steering meetings, write clear status updates, and influence decisions without direct authority.
- Hands-on experience working with or alongside integration engineers, solution architects, or technical program managers on API-based integrations, including familiarity with common web and API concepts.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience delivering large-scale partner integrations in fintech, payments, or adjacent regulated industries (e.g., card schemes, payment gateways, global acquiring, or embedded finance).
- Formal training or certification in project management or agile delivery (e.g., PMP, PRINCE2, Scrum Master), and comfort setting up operating rhythms such as stand-ups, steering committees, and executive readouts.
- Experience managing enterprise or strategic accounts as part of a broader account team, including navigating commercial sensitivities while protecting delivery quality and scope.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-moving, ambiguous environment, balancing structured methodologies with pragmatic decision-making to keep complex projects moving forward.
Applicant Safety Policy: Fraud and Third-Party Recruiters
To protect you from recruitment scams, please be aware that Airwallex will not ask for bank details, sensitive ID numbers (i.e. passport), or any form of payment during the application or interview process. All official communication will come from an @airwallex.com email address. Please apply only through careers.airwallex.com or our official LinkedIn page. Airwallex does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firms/recruiters. Airwallex will not pay any fees to search firms/recruiters if a candidate is submitted by a search firm/recruiter unless an agreement has been entered into with respect to specific open position(s). Search firms/recruiters submitting resumes to Airwallex on an unsolicited basis shall be deemed to accept this condition, regardless of any other provision to the contrary.
Equal opportunity
Airwallex is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and anyone seeking employment at Airwallex is considered based on merit, qualifications, competence and talent. We don’t regard color, religion, race, national origin, sexual orientation, ancestry, citizenship, sex, marital or family status, disability, gender, or any other legally protected status when making our hiring decisions. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.
Compensation Range:
$150K - $250K
About Airwallex
Airwallex is the AI-native financial operating system for a real-time, intelligent economy. More than 675,000 businesses, including McLaren Racing, Qantas, SHEIN, and TikTok, use us, directly or through our platform partners, to run their financial operations or build and monetize financial products of their own. We started in Melbourne in 2015 to build the infrastructure global commerce runs on. We're the regulated backbone behind global payments: not by accident, but by design. A decade plus, 85+ licenses, and a financial infrastructure spanning North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific. We're co-headquartered in San Francisco and Singapore, with more than 2,700 people across 27 offices. We hire builders with founder-level energy, people who move fast with good judgment, dig in with real curiosity, and make calls from first principles rather than waiting to be told what to do. Read our operating principles to see it in full.
About The Team
The Merchant Services team partners with our clients to realise their full potential through the adoption of Airwallex products that drive their growth and success. We influence revenue growth across our entire product portfolio and collaborate with sales, strategy, product, and engineering teams to provide the best experience for our most valued customers. Our team works alongside commercial teams throughout the pre-sales, solution design, and API integration stages, serving as the single technical point of contact and trusted advisor for our clients. We are committed to empowering businesses with the tools our clients need to succeed in a dynamic market.
What You’ll Do
As a Technical Implementation Manager, you will own the end-to-end delivery of complex client integrations that bring our global payments and financial products to life for enterprise partners, shopping carts, and payment gateways. You will turn agreed business requirements and solution designs into actionable plans, orchestrating cross-functional teams and external stakeholders to deliver on time, on scope, and to a high quality bar. You’ll sit at the intersection of Sales, Solutions Engineering, Product, and Operations, ensuring that every phase from pre-sale through go-live and early optimisation runs smoothly. This role can be based in SF, NYC, Seattle or Toronto (with 3 days in office requirement).
Responsibilities
- Take agreed business requirements and solution proposals and translate them into comprehensive project delivery plans, operating rhythms, and execution strategies for end-to-end partner integrations (from scoping through full launch).
- Own overall project management for client product integrations, including internal and external communication, risk and dependency management, and day-to-day orchestration of workstreams across onboarding, configuration, testing/certification, and pilot/launch.
- Lead the delivery of partner projects in close collaboration with integration engineers and other technical stakeholders, ensuring functional flows, architecture, and timelines are clearly understood and adhered to.
- Drive a core project team across all phases of the sales and delivery lifecycle: pre-delivery with commercial/sales managers and solution architects, delivery with solution engineers, and post-delivery with technical account managers and support/operations teams.
- Coordinate cross-functional approvals and inputs from internal stakeholders (e.g., legal, compliance, privacy, risk, operations, finance, product) to secure timely sign-off on proposed solution designs and integration approaches.
- Partner with internal product and engineering teams to prioritise solution requirements needed for a given integration, balancing roadmap constraints with committed client timelines and escalating trade-offs where required.
- Collaborate with internal PMO or program functions to align partner-specific delivery milestones with broader product roadmaps and operational readiness plans.
- Apply professional services methodologies and disciplined project management practices (governance, RAID logs, KPIs, status reporting) to manage complex, multi-workstream efforts spanning multiple regions and stakeholder groups.
- Track and communicate clear metrics across your portfolio (e.g., time-to-go-live, adherence to plan, quality of launch) and lead structured post-launch reviews to drive continuous improvement of our integration playbooks.
Who You Are
We're looking for people who meet the minimum requirements for this role. The preferred qualifications are great to have, but are not mandatory.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in a related field.
- 5+ years of experience in Product Delivery Management or Project Management, managing complex, multi-stakeholder technology or financial services implementations.
- 5+ years of professional services or client-facing delivery experience in a high-paced environment (e.g., consulting, systems integration, or enterprise implementation).
- Demonstrated experience with global payment products or technology-led business solutions, and the ability to translate product capabilities into practical integration plans for partners.
- Proven track record of successfully delivering cross-functional projects with stakeholders from diverse backgrounds and job functions, including C-level executives, technical teams, and operations.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication and presentation skills, including the ability to lead steering meetings, write clear status updates, and influence decisions without direct authority.
- Hands-on experience working with or alongside integration engineers, solution architects, or technical program managers on API-based integrations, including familiarity with common web and API concepts.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience delivering large-scale partner integrations in fintech, payments, or adjacent regulated industries (e.g., card schemes, payment gateways, global acquiring, or embedded finance).
- Formal training or certification in project management or agile delivery (e.g., PMP, PRINCE2, Scrum Master), and comfort setting up operating rhythms such as stand-ups, steering committees, and executive readouts.
- Experience managing enterprise or strategic accounts as part of a broader account team, including navigating commercial sensitivities while protecting delivery quality and scope.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-moving, ambiguous environment, balancing structured methodologies with pragmatic decision-making to keep complex projects moving forward.
Applicant Safety Policy: Fraud and Third-Party Recruiters
To protect you from recruitment scams, please be aware that Airwallex will not ask for bank details, sensitive ID numbers (i.e. passport), or any form of payment during the application or interview process. All official communication will come from an @airwallex.com email address. Please apply only through careers.airwallex.com or our official LinkedIn page. Airwallex does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firms/recruiters. Airwallex will not pay any fees to search firms/recruiters if a candidate is submitted by a search firm/recruiter unless an agreement has been entered into with respect to specific open position(s). Search firms/recruiters submitting resumes to Airwallex on an unsolicited basis shall be deemed to accept this condition, regardless of any other provision to the contrary.
Equal opportunity
Airwallex is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and anyone seeking employment at Airwallex is considered based on merit, qualifications, competence and talent. We don’t regard color, religion, race, national origin, sexual orientation, ancestry, citizenship, sex, marital or family status, disability, gender, or any other legally protected status when making our hiring decisions. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.
Compensation Range:
$150K - $250K
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Mid Level Payroll Implementation Specialist Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a mid level payroll implementation specialist job?
Position yourself around ownership, not just participation. Highlight projects where you led client onboarding end to end, resolved integration issues independently, or trained end users on payroll platforms. Tailor your application to show depth in at least one major HCM or payroll system, and use specific outcomes, such as go-live timelines met or error rates reduced, to demonstrate impact rather than just listing duties.
Which companies hire mid level payroll implementation specialists?
Companies hiring mid level payroll implementation specialists right now include Rippling, Apple, and Airwallex, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. At this experience level, hiring tends to come from payroll technology vendors, HR outsourcing firms, and large enterprises building out their internal implementation or HRIS teams.
Are there remote mid level payroll implementation specialist jobs?
Yes, remote and hybrid availability is strong at this level. About 51% of mid level payroll implementation specialist openings are remote or hybrid as of November 2026, reflecting how much of the work, including client calls, system configuration, and testing, can be done effectively without being on site.
How do I move up to a mid level payroll implementation specialist role?
Moving from entry level to mid level takes deepening your hands-on experience with full implementation cycles, not just supporting tasks. Focus on building proficiency in one or two major payroll or HCM platforms, taking on client-facing responsibilities, and documenting measurable outcomes from your work. Certifications from platform vendors, such as Workday, ADP, or Ceridian, signal readiness for the ownership that mid level roles require.
Which industries hire the most mid level payroll implementation specialists?
Mid Level payroll implementation specialist roles concentrate in Technology & Software, Consulting & Professional Services, and Banking & Financial Services, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. These sectors drive hiring at this level because they operate complex multi-state or multi-entity payroll environments that require experienced specialists to manage system rollouts and ensure compliance at scale.