About LILT

AI is changing how the world communicates — and LILT is leading that transformation.

We're on a mission to make the world's information accessible to everyone, regardless of the language they speak. We use cutting-edge AI, machine translation, and human-in-the-loop expertise to translate content faster, more accurately, and more cost-effectively without compromising on brand, voice, or quality.

At LILT, we empower our teammates with leading tools, global collaboration, and growth opportunities to do their best work. Our company virtues—Work together, win together; Find a way or make one; Quicker than they expect; Quality is Job 1—guide everything we do. We are trusted by Intel Corporation, Canva, the United States Department of Defense, the United States Air Force, ASICS, and hundreds of global Enterprises. Backed by Sequoia, Intel Capital, and Redpoint, we’re building a category-defining company in a $50B+ global translation market being redefined by AI.

Role Overview

We’re looking for an experienced Payroll Specialist (Part-Time) to own and manage end-to-end global payroll operations for LILT. You’ll be responsible for ensuring payroll is accurate, compliant, on time, and well-documented across multiple countries, working closely with People Ops, Finance, and external payroll providers.

This role is ideal for someone who has run global payroll at a scaling company and can operate independently with high precision.

Responsibilities

• Run multiple biweekly, semimonthly, and monthly global payroll cycles across multiple countries and worker types (exempt and nonexempt employees + contractors)

• Partner with payroll systems and providers to ensure correct setup and execution

• Collect, validate, and process payroll inputs, including:

  • new hires and terminations

  • salary changes

  • bonuses and commissions

  • timecards

  • unpaid leave, sick leave, PTO adjustments

  • reimbursements and one-time payments

• Maintain accurate payroll records and audit trails for Finance and compliance

• Ensure payroll changes are properly reflected in HRIS and payroll systems

• Coordinate with Finance on payroll funding, approvals, and reporting

• Support payroll reconciliations

• Help ensure compliance with local payroll regulations, tax filings, and statutory requirements (in partnership with providers)

• Respond to employee payroll questions (pay slips, deductions, timing, etc.) in a professional and timely way

• Identify process improvements and implement scalable payroll workflows

• Oversee state-level payroll compliance, including managing correspondence, registrations, and verification requirements across all current and future operating jurisdictions.

• Administer retirement plan funding for the U.S. and U.K., ensuring timely, accurate uploads and ongoing compliance with local regulations.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of payroll experience, including multi-country/global payroll, with preference for US, Ireland, UK, and Germany

• Strong understanding of payroll operations, compliance, and best practices

• Experience working with payroll vendors and EOR platforms

• Comfortable handling sensitive and confidential data with discretion

• Extremely detail-oriented with strong follow-through

• Able to work independently and communicate clearly across teams

• Strong Excel/Google Sheets skills

• Experience supporting payroll audits and reconciliations

Nice to Have

• Experience in a high-growth startup environment

• Familiarity with Rippling, DATEV, Fidelity, and People’s Partnership

• Experience processing payroll across the US + multiple international regions (EMEA/APAC/LATAM)

• Familiarity with contractor payments and invoicing workflows
  

Working Style / What Success Looks Like

• Payroll is always accurate, on time, and well-documented

• Employee payroll questions are resolved quickly and smoothly

• Payroll inputs are clean, organized, and easy for Finance to reconcile

• Payroll processes become more scalable as the company grows

Our Story

Our founders, Spence and John met at Google working on Google Translate. As researchers at Stanford and Berkeley, they both worked on language technology to make information accessible to everyone. While together at Google, they were amazed to learn that Google Translate wasn’t used for enterprise products and services inside the company.The quality just wasn’t there. So they set out to build something better. LILT was born.

LILT has been a machine learning company since its founding in 2015. At the time, machine translation didn’t meet the quality standard for enterprise translations, so LILT assembled a cutting-edge research team tasked with closing that gap. While meeting customer demand for translation services, LILT has prioritized investments in Large Language Models, human-in-the-loop systems, and now agentic AI.

With AI innovation accelerating and enterprise demand growing, the next phase of LILT’s journey is just beginning.

Our Tech

What sets our platform apart:

• Brand-aware AI that learns your voice, tone, and terminology to ensure every translation is accurate and consistent

• Agentic AI workflows that automate the entire translation process from content ingestion to quality review to publishing

• 100+ native integrations with systems like Adobe Experience Manager, Webflow, Salesforce, GitHub, and Google Drive to simplify content translation

• Human-in-the-loop reviews via our global network of professional linguists, for high-impact content that requires expert review

LILT in the News

• Featured in The Software Report’s Top 100 Software Companies!

• LILT makes it onto the Inc. 5000 List.

• LILT’s continues to be an intellectual powerhouse, holding numerous patents that help power the most efficient and sophisticated AI and language models in the industry.

• Check out all our news on our website.

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At LILT, we are committed to a fair, inclusive, and transparent hiring process. As part of our recruitment efforts, we may use artificial intelligence (AI) and automated tools to assist in the evaluation of applications, including résumé screening, assessment scoring, and interview analysis. These tools are designed to support human decision-making and help us identify qualified candidates efficiently and objectively. All final hiring decisions are made by people. If you have any concerns, require accommodations, or would like to opt-out of the use of AI in our hiring process, please let us know at recruiting@lilt.com.

LILT is an equal opportunity employer. We extend equal opportunity to all individuals without regard to an individual’s race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic characteristics, veteran or marital status, pregnancy, or any other classification protected by applicable local, state or federal laws. We are committed to the principles of fair employment and the elimination of all discriminatory practices.