we're hiring a Payroll Domain Expert to lead the charge in solving some of the most complex, nuanced payroll puzzles Indian SMBs throw at us. This is not a classic CS role.
you're a Player-Coach + Solution Architect who ll help customers transition from chaos to clarity during onboarding and post-go-live, and shape Keka s Payroll experience from the ground up.
you'll build a Payroll Customer Success Centre of Excellence (CoE) and lead a high-impact charter focused on solving implementation challenges, creating scalable playbooks, influencing product, and driving adoption.
This role reports to the SVP - Customer Experience and offers an opportunity to shape the future of Payroll experience at Keka.
What you'll Do
Customer Engineering & Onboarding
- Serve as the Payroll Solution Architect during implementation, translating complex payroll configurations into product-ready structures.
- Engage hands-on with customers to resolve salary structures, PF/ESI/PT/TDS setups, and other statutory workflows.
- Act as the go-to expert for Payroll Reconciliations, handling YTD mismatches, retro pay, and edge-case exceptions.
- Ensure go-lives happen with clarity, compliance, and customer confidence.
Solutioning & Escalation Management
- Function as a Tier-2 escalation expert for high-complexity payroll issues.
- Collaborate with Support, Product, and Engineering to close the loop on recurring friction points.
- Contribute to building internal resolution protocols and solution templates.
Cross-Functional Leadership
- Relay ground-level insights to Product and influence roadmap decisions that improve Payroll UX, validations, and automation workflows.
- Represent the customer voice in internal prioritization and beta feedback loops.
Team Building & CoE Formation
- Be the founding member of Keka s Payroll CS Centre of Excellence.
- Mentor new hires, build training pathways, and codify knowledge into repeatable, scalable processes.
- Own the hiring blueprint and maturity model for this vertical.
Metrics, Dashboards & Continuous Improvement
- Track metrics like payroll adoption, reconciliation success rates, time-to-resolution, NPS, CSAT, and churn risk.
- Build dashboards to proactively flag red zones and engage high-risk accounts before they escalate.
- Feed these insights into automation journeys and self-serve modules.
What You Bring
- 4-6+ years in Payroll Implementation, Consulting, Customer Success, or Support in B2B SaaS or HRTech.
- Deep command over Indian payroll regulations, statutory calculations (PF, ESI, TDS, PT), and variant salary structures.
- Strong analytical acumen for reconciliation, retro-pay, and edge-case salary configs.
- Experience translating business requirements into scalable platform configurations.
- Proven ability to work with Product, Engineering, and CX teams to ship meaningful changes.
Bonus If You Have
- Experience with SaaS platforms like Keka, Zoho People, GreytHR, Darwinbox, etc
- Exposure to digital CS motions: email cadences, in-app nudges, self-serve enablement.
- Familiarity with tools for ticketing, product usage analytics, and customer journey tracking.
Why Join Us
- Build what doesn t exist yet - Own and scale Keka s first-ever Payroll CS CoE.
- Solve high-impact problems - Directly shape the payroll experience for 10,000+ orgs.
- Lead with autonomy - While being backed by a leadership team that bets on talent.
- Get rewarded right - Competitive salary, performance-linked incentives, and robust benefits.
- Work that matters - Flexible hours, a mission-first culture, and a team obsessed with excellence.Join Keka. Don t just do a job. Build a legacy.