Payroll Lead

You will own and shape payroll at Lovable at a point where the model is genuinely open. Today it's outsourced; where it lands,

continuing to oversee and approve the work of our service centers, or bringing the whole thing in-house and running it end-to-end,

is undecided and yours to figure out. This is a senior, high-ownership role for an AI-pilled, expert Swedish payroll professional

who has done this before and wants to build payroll into a tight, automated, reliable machine at one of the fastest-growing AI

companies in the world.

Lovable is the software creation platform that gives people the power to act on the problems closest to them. For decades, turning

an idea into software required so much capital, technical fluency, and time that many ideas never came to life. Lovable is the

counterargument: a platform for all people with ideas, ambition, and problems worth solving. From solopreneurs to small business

owners to teams at companies like Adidas and Zendesk, people have built over 60 million projects on Lovable since its launch in

November 2024. And we’re just getting started.

We’re building a generational company from Stockholm, with growing teams in London, Boston, New York, and San Francisco. Our team

is small, talent-dense, and moving quickly, with a culture rooted in extreme ownership, high velocity, and low-ego collaboration.

We look for people who care deeply, ship fast, and are eager to make a dent in the world.

Lovable is one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential Companies and has been recognized on the Forbes AI 50 and CNBC Disruptor 50,

reflecting our momentum as one of Europe’s fastest-growing AI companies and one of the most ambitious places to build in this next

era of software.

• We're bringing payroll ownership into Finance, and the model is deliberately open: keep it part-outsourced, bring it fully

in-house, or land in between, your call to make.

• As our first dedicated Payroll Lead you'll own that model and the build-versus-buy calls, starting in Sweden and potentially

scaling to global.

• A deeply AI-pilled way of working: you reach for AI and automation by default and want to build a modern, automated payroll

function rather than a manual one

• Expert Swedish payroll knowledge, hands-on and current: Skatteverket employer reporting (AGI), employer contributions, expert

tax / SINK, pensions and benefits, and a working knowledge of LAS and BFL

• A genuine appetite to own payroll end-to-end and to shape the operating model, including the build-versus-buy decision on what

we run in-house versus outsource

• Strong payroll accounting skills: journals, accruals, reconciliations, month-end close and correct entity and cost-centre

coding

• Shape and own how payroll is delivered: whether we oversee and approve outsourced service centres, bring payroll fully in-house

end-to-end, or a mix, and lead the transition wherever it lands

• Own the payroll and tax treatment of equity events (option exercises, secondaries, clawbacks, benefits in kind), coordinating

with Finance and Tax