HR Manager, Lifecycle Time & Attendance - APAC

About Remote Remote is solving modern organizations’ biggest challenge – navigating global employment compliantly with ease. We make it possible for businesses of all sizes to recruit, pay, and manage international teams. With our core values at heart and future focused work culture, our team works tirelessly on ambitious problems, asynchronously, around the world. You can find Remoters working from 6 different continents (Antarctica left to go!) and all of our positions are fully remote. What This Job Can Offer You We are looking for a Manager, Time & Attendance to own the planning, implementation, and service delivery for the Lifecycle Time & Attendance team. Reporting to the Senior Manager of Lifecycle Operations Time & Attendance, this is an exciting time to join Remote and make a personal impact in the global employment space in our growing Lifecycle Operations team. What You Bring Management & Coaching: Hands‑on people management experience with a strong coaching mindset, specifically leading distributed, international teams. International HR Ops: Proven track record of experience in HR Operations across multiple countries. T&A & Compliance Expertise: Deep knowledge of Time & Attendance matters, associated wage/hour laws, complex policy exceptions, and disciplinary processes in various jurisdictions. Jurisdictional Focus: Deep knowledge of complex T&A case resolution, wage/hour compliance, and managing policy discrepancies under labor law in APAC countries. Environment: Experience working in a fast‑paced, international, scale‑up environment. Service & Drive: Passionate about accomplishing goals, comfortable working in a service level environment (SLAs/KPIs), with emphasis on continuous improvement and customer satisfaction. Technical Acumen: Tech‑savvy with experience working with a variety of digital tools, eye toward process optimization and automation. Language: Fluent English. Data Integrity: Safely manage and maintain employee data and confidential information, adhering to established protocols while ensuring utmost professionalism and discretion in high‑stakes T&A cases. Desired Skills (A Plus): Startup, remote working experience and other languages besides English. Key Responsibilities People & Team Leadership: Guide, coach, and develop direct reports to build a high‑performing T&A team. Culture: Foster a positive team culture across international borders in a remote, asynchronous environment that encourages excellence and innovation. Performance Management: Lead performance management by overseeing bi‑annual evaluations and aligning individual and team goals with business objectives. Team Growth: Drive recruitment, training, mentoring, and supervision of the regional team to support professional growth. Complex Case Resolution (ER Scope): Serve as a subject‑matter expert and final escalation point on all high‑risk Time & Attendance topics, including complex wage‑hour disputes, policy interpretation, and potential disciplinary matters related to timekeeping compliance. Cross‑Functional Partnership: Partner across Domains—Operations, Product, Engineering, Legal, and Employee Relations—to enhance T&A processes, workflows, and SOPs. Process Optimization: Improve & optimize the Lifecycle T&A team’s processes, existing workflows, and tools, including identifying opportunities for automation to improve quality, efficiency, and scale. Service Delivery: Ensure efficient, compliant delivery of Time & Attendance services while meeting KPIs and SLAs. Risk Mitigation: Safely manage and maintain employee data and confidential information, advising on best practices to handle sensitive T&A records and investigations with discretion. Strategic Resolution: Resolve escalated T&A issues through detailed analysis, including advising on or conducting internal investigations into serious attendance or timekeeping discrepancies, and implementing improvements that drive compliance and business growth. AI Enablement: Champion the responsible adoption of AI‑assisted tools within the T&A team—identifying opportunities, running pilots, establishing guardrails, and scaling successes while ensuring compliance with Remote’s data handling and confidentiality guidelines. Practicals Reporting to: Senior Manager Lifecycle: Time & Attendance Team: Lifecycle Operations - Time & Attendance Location: Open to all applicants, with priority given to APAC locations to diversify our team. Start date: As soon as possible Benefits Our full benefits & perks are explained in our handbook at remote.com/r/benefits. As a global company, each country works differently, but some benefits/perks are for all Remoters: Work from anywhere Flexible paid time off Flexible working hours (we are async) 16 weeks paid parental leave Mental health support services Stock options Learning budget Home office budget & IT equipment Budget for local in‑person social events or co‑working spaces The annual salary range for this full‑time position is $48,850—$109,900 USD. Remote’s Total Rewards philosophy is to ensure fair, unbiased compensation, fair equity pay, and competitive benefits across all locations. We do not agree to or encourage cheap‑labor practices and therefore we ensure to pay above in‑location rates. How You’ll Plan Your Day (and Life) We work async at Remote which means you can plan your schedule around your life (and not around meetings). Read more at remote.com/async. You will be empowered to take ownership and be proactive. When in doubt you will default to action instead of waiting. Your life‑work balance is important and you will be encouraged to put yourself and your family first, and fit work around your needs. Equal Employment Opportunity Not only do we encourage folks from all ethnic groups, genders, sexuality, age, abilities, disability status and any other under‑represented group to apply, but we prioritize a sense of belonging. We have 4 ERGs (Women, Disability, Queer, Minorities in Tech) who meet regularly with the People team. During your interviews and beyond, we ask & encourage anybody who needs an accommodation to request one from their recruiter. We will ask you to voluntarily tell us your pronouns at interview stage, and you will have the option to answer our anonymous demographic questionnaire when you apply below. As an equal employment opportunity employer it’s important to us that our workforce reflects people of all backgrounds, identities, and experiences and this data will help us to stay accountable. At Remote, we embrace AI as a valuable tool while prioritizing human creativity and authenticity. To learn more about Remote's AI guidelines, check see here. Please note we accept applications on an ongoing basis. #J-18808-Ljbffr