Sr. Director Payroll

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc•Austin, TX

21d

About The Position

AMD is seeking a strategic, hands-on Senior Director of Global Payroll to lead end-to-end payroll operations and transformation across its global footprint. The role is accountable for accurate, timely, and compliant pay delivery while advancing a harmonized operating model, modern technology ecosystem, strong controls, and an exceptional employee experience. It partners closely with Finance, Tax, Treasury, Legal, Total Rewards, HR Technology, IT, and regional business leaders in a fast-paced, innovative environment. The ideal candidate combines strategic vision with operational depth and leads collaboratively, with strong judgment and a compliance and controls mindset. The position leads a globally distributed organization, owns global payroll delivery, transformation, vendor strategy, automation and AI governance, and payroll reporting and analytics. It also serves as a senior subject matter expert and escalation point for complex global payroll issues.

Requirements

Progressive payroll experience, including significant leadership responsibility for global or multi-region payroll operations.
Demonstrated success leading a large-scale payroll transformation, consolidation, implementation, or vendor transition as the accountable business owner.
Deep knowledge of U.S. payroll and tax requirements, with strong working knowledge of multi-country payroll compliance, controls, and operating practices.
Experience leading leaders and globally distributed teams across multiple countries and time zones.
Proven ability to apply automation and AI in payroll or adjacent HR and Finance operations, with measurable improvements in accuracy, controls, cycle time, manual effort, or cost to serve.
Strong understanding of SOX-aligned controls, audit requirements, data privacy, payroll risk, and governance in a global environment.
Exceptional executive presence, cross-cultural communication, stakeholder partnership, and ability to balance strategic leadership with operational excellence.
Bachelor’s degree in business, Finance, Accounting, Human Resources, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Nice To Haves

Experience with enterprise payroll, human capital management, and time-tracking platforms; experience with Workday, CloudPay, ADP, or comparable solutions is valued.
Experience with incentive, commission, equity, and executive payroll at scale.
Experience supporting mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, entity expansion, or complex organizational change.

Responsibilities

Lead and develop a globally distributed payroll organization, establishing clear accountability, succession depth, and consistent capabilities across regions.
Own end-to-end payroll delivery across countries and entities, including regular and off-cycle payrolls, terminations, equity and incentive payments, and year-end processing.
Ensure accurate, timely, and compliant payroll execution in accordance with local labor, tax, statutory, and reporting requirements.
Establish and monitor global service standards, operational metrics, controls, audit readiness, and issue resolution, with clear regional accountability.
Lead the global payroll and time-tracking transformation roadmap, including operating model design, process standardization, technology consolidation, vendor transitions, integrations, and change management.
Define scalable global processes and controls that reduce unnecessary local variation while respecting statutory and business requirements.
Partner with Finance, Tax, Treasury, Legal, Compliance, Total Rewards, HR Technology, IT, and business leaders on payroll funding, accounting, reporting, data integrity, policy, and employee experience.
Provide payroll leadership for mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, new-country or entity expansion, and major policy or program rollouts.
Own payroll vendor and managed-service-provider strategy, including selection, contracts, service levels, governance, risk, and commercial performance.
Serve as the senior subject matter expert and escalation point for complex global payroll, compliance, audit, and employee pay matters.
Establish and execute an automation and AI roadmap for payroll, applying responsible solutions to validation, reconciliations, gross-to-net review, anomaly detection, case management, and self-service.
Ensure automated and AI-enabled processes include appropriate data protection, human review, auditability, accuracy monitoring, and governance.
Own payroll reporting, forecasting, and analytics, and provide executive-level visibility into payroll costs, service performance, risks, controls, and strategic initiatives.
Foster a culture of execution excellence, continuous improvement, collaboration, inclusion, and employee-centered service.