--- title: 'Senior Payroll & Benefits Administrator at YipitData (Alternative)' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/senior-payroll-benefits-administrator-yipitdata-alternative-new-york-jzx1760gnm52' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-10-14' --- # Senior Payroll & Benefits Administrator at YipitData (Alternative) - **Company:** YipitData (Alternative) - **Location:** New York, NY - **Posted:** 2026-09-25 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-14 - **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/yipitdatajobs/jobs/8233310 ## Job description About Us: YipitData is the leading market research and analytics firm for the disruptive economy and most recently raised $475M from The Carlyle Group at a valuation of over $1B. Every day, our proprietary technology analyzes billions of alternative data points to uncover actionable insights across sectors like software, AI, cloud, e-commerce, ridesharing, and payments. Our data and research teams transform raw data into strategic intelligence, delivering accurate, timely, and deeply contextualized analysis that our customers—ranging from the world’s top investment funds to Fortune 500 companies—depend on to drive high-stakes decisions. From sourcing and licensing novel datasets to rigorous analysis and expert narrative framing, our teams ensure clients get not just data, but clarity and confidence. We operate globally with offices in the US, APAC, and India. Our award-winning, people-centric culture—recognized by Inc. as a [Best Workplace](https://www.inc.com/profile/yipitdata) for three consecutive years—emphasizes transparency, ownership, and continuous mastery. What It’s Like to Work at YipitData: YipitData isn’t a place for coasting—it’s a launchpad for ambitious, impact-driven professionals. From day one, you’ll take the lead on meaningful work, accelerate your growth, and gain exposure that shapes careers. Why Top Talent Chooses YipitData: - Ownership That Matters: You’ll lead high-impact projects with real business outcomes - Rapid Growth: We compress years of learning into months - Merit Over Titles: Trust and responsibility are earned through execution, not tenure - Velocity with Purpose: We move fast, support each other, and aim high—always with purpose and intention If your ambition is matched by your work ethic—and you're hungry for a place where growth, impact, and ownership are the norm—YipitData might be the opportunity you’ve been waiting for. About The Role: We are seeking a Senior Payroll & Benefits Administrator to own our US payroll operations and support the financial and administrative components of our benefits programs. You’ll be responsible for accurate and timely payroll for 500+ employees, multi-state payroll compliance, benefits invoice reconciliation, and the payroll and reconciliation processes associated with our self-insured health plans. This is a highly hands-on role that will partner closely with Finance, People Ops, ADP, and our benefits partners. You’ll serve as an internal payroll subject matter expert while helping us strengthen controls, improve processes, and scale our payroll and benefits operations as the company grows. This is a remote-friendly opportunity that can sit in NYC (where our headquarters is located), one of our office hubs, or anywhere else in the US. However, depending upon where the remote work is performed, income could be subject to New York State tax withholding. We expect East Coast work hours. As Our Senior Payroll & Benefits Administrator You Will: - Own end-to-end US payroll processing 500+ US employees, ensuring accurate, timely, and compliant payroll. - Partner with Finance and People Ops to manage payroll inputs and changes, including new hires, terminations, compensation changes, bonuses, deductions, and leaves, proactively identifying and resolving discrepancies. - Serve as the primary point of contact and internal subject matter expert for payroll, resolving employee questions and partnering with ADP and internal stakeholders on payroll, tax, and deduction issues. - Manage multi-state payroll and tax requirements for a distributed workforce, including appropriate handling of New York's Convenience of the Employer rule and related withholding requirements. - Own payroll and invoicing-related benefits administration, including employee deduction changes, QLEs, and ongoing coordination with the People Ops benefits team. - Review and reconcile benefits invoices and self-funded plan activity, validating employee eligibility, enrollment, payroll deductions, and plan fees, and partner with Accounting to resolve discrepancies and complete financial reconciliations. - Own payroll and benefits reconciliations and support month-end, year-end, W-2 preparation, open enrollment, benefits renewals, audits, and other recurring processes. - Maintain strong documentation and controls while identifying opportunities to automate, simplify, and scale payroll and benefits processes. You Are Likely To Succeed If: - You have 4+ years of hands-on payroll and benefits administration experience, including direct responsibility for running payroll through ADP Workforce Now for a US workforce of at least 500 employees and managing multi-state payroll. Experience reconciling benefits invoices is required; experience with self-insured benefits plans and New York's Convenience of the Employer rule is strongly preferred. - You have strong working knowledge of federal, state, and local payroll and tax requirements and are comfortable researching and resolving complex payroll and withholding questions. - You have hands-on experience with benefits administration and invoice reconciliation and can confidently identify discrepancies across payroll, HRIS, carrier, and vendor data. - You are highly proficient with Excel or Google Sheets and comfortable working with large datasets, reconciliations, audits, and reporting. - You are exceptionally detail-oriented and take ownership of high-stakes, deadline-driven work, building appropriate checks and controls into your processes. - You are a clear, empathetic communicator who can independently own recurring processes, exercise good judgment, and continuously look for ways to make payroll and benefits administration more efficient, scalable, and reliable. What We Offer: Our compensation package includes comprehensive benefits, perks, and a competitive salary: - We care about your personal life, and we mean it. We offer flexible work hours, flexible vacation, a generous 401K match, parental leave, team events, wellness budget, learning reimbursement, and more! - Your growth at YipitData is determined by the impact that you are making, not by tenure, unnecessary facetime, or office politics. Everyone at YipitData is empowered to learn, self-improve, and master their skills in an environment focused on ownership, respect, and trust. See more on our high-impact, high-opportunity work environment above! - Base Salary Only: The annual base salary range for this position is anticipated to be $105,000-115,000. Final compensation may be determined by a number of factors, including, but not limited to, the applicant’s experience, knowledge, skills, abilities, and internal team benchmarks. - The compensation package also includes equity. This role may be performed fully remotely within the United States. Please note that our US headquarters are located in NYC. If the remote work is performed outside of these offices, income may be subject to New York State tax withholding. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. [Job Applicant Privacy Notice](https://www.yipitdata.com/careers/job-applicant-privacy-notice) ## About YipitData (Alternative) ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: YipitData provides market intelligence to brands and investors by tracking trillions in live consumer and business spend through proprietary data sources. - **Entity Type**: Private (Venture Capital-backed) - **Headquarters**: New York, NY, USA (19 W 44th Street, 16th Floor) - **Founded**: 2013 (founded as Yipit; company rebranded to YipitData) - **Founders**: Vinicius Vacanti (Co-Founder & CEO) ## Core Business - Primary industry: Market Intelligence, Data & Analytics, Business/Productivity Software - Target customers: B2B — focused on hedge funds, asset managers, brands, retailers, and M&A advisory firms - Mission statement: "To give brands and investors the market intelligence they need to see what’s happening right now and take action." ## Products & Services - **Proprietary Data Network**: Combines owned B2C and B2B panels with 40+ always-on sources including B2B spend, cloud spend, consumer receipts, and card transactions. - **AI Insight Agent**: An AI-powered tool allowing users to ask questions in plain language about a company, market, or competitor and receive structured, actionable analysis. - **Benchmarking & Market Share**: Tools to compare public or private company growth, pricing, and customer metrics against competitors, broken down by region, channel, or segment. - **Consumer Insights**: Analysis of who is buying, how often, and why — including cross-shopping, churn, and average spend. - **Trend Spotting**: Early identification of shifts in consumer behavior before they appear in earnings calls or public reports. - **M&A Advisory & Diligence**: Data validation for target companies, including revenue trajectory and market position. ## Market Standing - **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed (PitchBook reports the company as venture capital-backed with a "Later Stage VC" status) - **Key Metric**: Over $1.8 trillion in B2B spend tracked; covers 500,000+ companies; 650+ customers - **Total Funding**: Approximately $475M raised in a Series E round led by Carlyle (December 2021), with subsequent debt refinancing and later-stage rounds through 2025 - **Notable Investors**: Carlyle (lead in Series E), 16 total investors per PitchBook - **Growth Signals**: 800+ employees globally; location-flexible with offices in NYC, APAC, Latin America, and India; recent M&A acquisition of Edison (Communication Software) in September 2021 ## Competitive Advantages - **Proprietary Data Network**: Owns and operates its own B2C and B2B panels, combined with 40+ licensed datasets (card transactions, receipts, web data, app usage) — not reliant on third-party model outputs. - **Real Transaction Data**: Insights are "powered by real transactions, not model outputs," providing a high degree of accuracy for high-stakes investment decisions. - **Dedicated Analyst Support**: Pairs data infrastructure with dedicated analysts to help clients move from signal to action. - **Broad Coverage**: Tracks trillions in live consumer and business spend across 500,000+ companies. ## Strategic Focus - **AI-Powered Insights**: Continued investment in the AI Insight Agent to deliver structured, plain-language analysis. - **Global Expansion**: Hiring across the US, APAC, Latin America, and India. - **Product Depth**: Enabling users to drill into data by time period, region, channel, or segment, and view panel sizes and collection methods behind each insight. - **M&A & Diligence**: Growing the advisory side to validate targets and stress-test assumptions with hard data. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: Built on ten core values: Impact, Judgment, Protective, Efficiency, Transparency, Self-Improvement, Experimental, Selflessness, Inclusivity, and Positivity. Described as hiring "sprinters, not coasters" — people who choose growth over comfort. - **Work Model**: Location-flexible — supports fully remote, hybrid, and fully in-office work. Offices in NYC, plus employees across the US, APAC, Latin America, and India. - **Growth & Ownership**: Emphasizes high expectations, impact, and ownership. "If your ambition is matched by your work ethic... YipitData is the opportunity you’ve been waiting for." - **Team**: 800+ employees globally. Leadership includes experts in data science, finance, technology, sales, and research (e.g., Steve Pulec, CTO; James Hart, President; Steve Seperson, CFO). - **Benefits**: Employee benefits mentioned include supporting remote/hybrid/in-office work options. ## Sources 1. [yipitdata.com](https://www.yipitdata.com/) 2. [yipitdata.com](https://www.yipitdata.com/careers/about) 3. [yipitdata.com](https://www.yipitdata.com/about) 4. [yipitdata.com](https://www.yipitdata.com/careers) 5. 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