They partner with Payroll Operations, Tax/Compliance, Implementation, Sales, Customer Success, Support, ACH/Payments, Finance, Product, Engineering, and other cross-functional leaders to reduce defects, improve first-payroll outcomes, and establish clear ownership from intake through steady-state operations. Oversee the team’s end-to-end execution of payroll data implementation, including data gathering, payroll due diligence, extraction, translation, mapping, transformation, validation, internal parallel payroll reviews, first-payroll readiness, and post-go-live stabilization and handoff.