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# Payroll Tax Manager at Distro

- **Company:** Distro
- **Location:** Multiple Locations
- **Compensation:** $70k–$83k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-10-19
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-20
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/distro/d15ac1a1-0f2c-46dc-8e68-e8b2db31eb9b

## Job description

- Job Title: Payroll Tax Manager
- Location: Chandler, Arizona (On-Site)
- Position Type: Full-Time
- Salary: $70,000 - $83,000 per year
- Company: Vensure Employer Solutions
- Company Overview: Vensure Employer Solutions is the largest privately held organization in the HR technology and services industry, providing HR/HCM technology, managed services, PEO, and BPO solutions. The company serves over 95,000 businesses and processes more than $135 billion in annual payroll.
- Role Summary: We are seeking a Payroll Tax Manager to lead payroll tax operations, ensure compliance across federal, state, and local jurisdictions, and provide leadership to supervisors and payroll tax teams. This role is ideal for a payroll tax professional with strong multi-state experience, leadership capabilities, and deep regulatory knowledge.
- Must-Have Qualifications:
- Minimum 4 years of high-volume, multi-state payroll tax experience
- Minimum 2 years of Supervisor or Manager experience
- CPP (Certified Payroll Professional) or FPC (Fundamental Payroll Certification) required
- Hands-on experience processing payroll tax returns and tax filings
- Strong knowledge of federal, state, and local payroll tax regulations
- Experience managing payroll tax payments, reconciliations, W-2 processing, and year-end activities
- Advanced understanding of payroll tax compliance and regulatory requirements
- Intermediate to Advanced Microsoft Excel skills
- Experience processing tax filings and payments through e-file, EFT, and related systems
- Nice-to-Have Qualifications:
- PEO industry experience
- Experience with MasterTax
- Experience with PrismHR/HRP
- Experience managing large payroll tax operations in a high-volume environment
- Strong background in payroll tax audits, process improvements, and tax strategy
- Key Responsibilities:
- Oversee payroll tax filings, payments, reconciliations, and compliance activities
- Manage federal, state, and local payroll tax reporting requirements
- Lead payroll tax operations, including W-2 processing and year-end activities
- Ensure timely resolution of tax notices, discrepancies, and escalated client issues
- Monitor tax law changes and implement required compliance updates
- Conduct audits and maintain accurate payroll tax records
- Research payroll tax regulations and provide guidance to leadership and clients
- Develop and maintain payroll tax procedures and best practices
- Coach, train, and manage payroll tax supervisors and team members
- Benefits:
- Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance
- 401(k) with Company Match
- Paid Time Off (PTO)
- Paid Holidays
- Parental Leave
- Sick Leave
- Life Insurance
- Short-Term & Long-Term Disability
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
- Health Savings Account (HSA)
- Identity Theft Protection
- Critical Illness Coverage
- Accident Insurance
- Cancer Insurance
- Hospital Protection Coverage
- Legal Insurance
- Pet Insurance
- Application: If you have extensive payroll tax expertise, leadership experience, and a passion for compliance and process improvement, we encourage you to apply and join a leading HR technology organization supporting businesses nationwide.

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## About Distro

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Distro provides an AI-powered global hiring platform that automates candidate screening, outreach, scheduling, and payroll compliance for remote-first companies.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Acquired by Vensure Employer Services)
- **Headquarters**: Lehi, Utah, United States
- **Founded**: 2021
- **Founders**: Chad Ingram (CEO), Andrew Mackay (Co-Founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Recruitment / Talent Acquisition Technology
- **Target customers**: B2B – seed-stage startups to enterprise teams, focused on remote-first and globally distributed companies
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “Hiring should feel human. Not heavy.”

## Products & Services
- **AI Recruiting Assistant**: Automates resume screening, scoring, and candidate ranking based on job criteria; handles outreach and scheduling end-to-end.
- **AI Scheduling Assistant**: Automates interview scheduling, reducing one of the biggest administrative burdens in recruiting.
- **Global Hiring Marketplace**: Matches companies with top technical talent across 200+ countries, including payroll and compliance support in 90+ EOR (Employer of Record) countries.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: $2M ARR reached within 8 months of MVP (reported as a milestone); current total funding not publicly available
- **Notable Investors / Partners**: Acquired by Vensure Employer Services (January 2026); serves companies from seed-stage to enterprise
- **Growth Signals**: 26.3% headcount growth YoY (19 employees as of mid-2026), 222% LinkedIn follower growth YoY, 4900% increase in job postings YoY (100 active positions), SOC 2 Type I certified, 1–3 days to shortlist

## Competitive Advantages
- AI-first screening reduces recruiter workload by surfacing only the top 3–5 candidates
- Global reach (200+ countries, 90+ EOR countries) with full compliance handling
- Skills-based screening (not pedigree) – appeals to a broader, more diverse talent pool
- Fast time-to-shortlist (1–3 days) and automated scheduling reduce time-to-hire by 1–2 weeks

## Strategic Focus
- Continue expanding AI capabilities in recruiting (e.g., AI Scheduling Assistant)
- Deepen integration with Vensure Employer Services to scale global payroll and compliance
- Grow the marketplace by attracting more technical talent and enterprise clients
- Maintain SOC 2 compliance and enterprise-grade security standards

## Why Work Here
- **Culture highlights**: AI-first, mission-driven (“make hiring human”), global team spanning 8 countries, emphasis on fair and skills-based screening
- **Remote/hybrid/office policy**: Some roles are on-site (Lehi, UT; Chandler, AZ) while the company supports remote employees across multiple countries; hybrid/remote likely role-dependent
- **Notable perks or engineering culture**: Fast-paced startup environment with recent acquisition support; employees work on cutting-edge AI recruiting tools; dedicated account managers for candidates and a focus on long-term roles

## Sources
1. [distro.io](https://distro.io/)
2. [distro.io/about-us](https://distro.io/about-us)
3. [distro.io/press](https://distro.io/press)
4. [linkedin.com/company/distroio](https://www.linkedin.com/company/distroio)
5. [jobs.lever.co/distro](https://jobs.lever.co/distro)

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