Senior Director, Global Payroll and Equity Administration

The role

The Senior Director will lead worldwide payroll and equity strategy and operations across all countries where Coupang operates. This person will lead a global team and partner with internal tech and engineering teams to build payroll and equity infrastructure.

What you will do

• Design, build, and execute global payroll and equity strategy.
• Lead construction and scaling of frameworks for end-to-end payroll processing and equity administration.
• Partner with HR and Legal to design and implement global equity programs.
• Identify systemic bottlenecks and re-engineer payroll and equity processes.
• Design, build, and audit robust internal controls globally.
• Rationalize, consolidate, and manage global relationships with external providers.
• Build, lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing global payroll and equity team.
• Build data infrastructure to deliver insights and metrics to senior leadership.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Human Resources, Business Administration, or a related field.
• 15+ years of progressive experience in payroll and equity administration.
• Experience navigating complex, high-volume, multi-country environments across large-scale, publicly traded organizations.
• Experience acting as functional owner or strategic partner in building custom, proprietary, or bespoke internal payroll/equity software.
• Deep operational and compliance expertise across multiple global geographies, with emphasis on Asia-Pacific and North America markets.
• Elite communication and interpersonal skills to align and influence cross-functional executives and teams.
• Fluency in written and spoken English.

Nice to have

• proficiency in a Korean

About the company

Coupang is a company with global ambitions that operates in multiple countries.