Country Product Manager - Italy

Deel; Italia; On-site; EUR 107,000 - 161,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock grant opportunities

Flexible working office membership

Total rewards program

Job summary

Deel is building its payroll operations for Italy and seeks the founding Country Product Manager to own end-to-end product strategy for payroll, HR, time tracking, and related services that respond to Italy's regulatory landscape.

You will manage an engineering team, translate local requirements into scalable products, and trade-off priorities to hit market timelines while collaborating with compliance and sales teams.

Qualifications

• Fluent Italian speaker; fluent English for coordination.
• Strong stakeholder management across teams and partners.
• Pragmatic, with systems thinking to integrate payroll, HR, time tracking and compliance.

Responsibilities

• Define product strategy for the Italian market across payroll, HR, time, and services.
• Lead dedicated engineering team to execute the roadmap.
• Coordinate across Product, Time, HRIS, and Services teams to align dependencies.
• Break complex requirements into iterative pieces and ship early for feedback.
• Own relationships with key accounts and ensure scalable solutions.

Skills

Italian market

Fluent Italian

Fluent English

Stakeholder management

Product leadership

Job description

Who We Are Is What We Do.

Deel is the all-in-one payroll and HR platform for global teams. Our vision is to unlock global opportunity for every person, team, and business. Built for the way the world works today, Deel combines HRIS, payroll, compliance, benefits, performance, and equipment management into one seamless platform. With AI-powered tools and a fully owned payroll infrastructure, Deel supports every worker type in 150+ countries—helping businesses scale smarter, faster, and more compliantly.

Among the largest globally distributed companies in the world, our team of 7,000 spans more than 100 countries, speaks 74 languages, and brings a connected and dynamic culture that drives continuous learning and innovation for our customers.

Who We Are Is What We Do.

Deel is the all-in-one payroll and HR platform for global teams. Our vision is to unlock global opportunity for every person, team, and business. Built for the way the world works today, Deel combines HRIS, payroll, compliance, benefits, performance, and equipment management into one seamless platform. With AI-powered tools and a fully owned payroll infrastructure, Deel supports every worker type in 150+ countries—helping businesses scale smarter, faster, and more compliantly.

Among the largest globally distributed companies in the world, our team of 7,000 spans more than 100 countries, speaks 74 languages, and brings a connected and dynamic culture that drives continuous learning and innovation for our customers.

Why should you be part of our success story?

As the fastest-growing Software as a Service (SaaS) company in history, Deel is transforming how global talent connects with world-class companies – breaking down borders that have traditionally limited both hiring and career opportunities. We're not just building software; we're creating the infrastructure for the future of work, enabling a more diverse and inclusive global economy. In 2024 alone, we paid $11.2 billion to workers in nearly 100 currencies and provided healthcare and benefits to workers in 109 countries—ensuring people get paid and protected, no matter where they are.

Our momentum is reflected in our achievements and customer satisfaction: CNBC Disruptor 50, Forbes Cloud 100, Deloitte Fast 500, and repeated recognition on Y Combinator's top companies list – all while maintaining a 4.83 average rating from 15,000 reviews across G2, Trustpilot, Captera, Apple and Google.

Your experience at Deel will be a career accelerator. At the forefront of the global work revolution, you'll tackle complex challenges that impact millions of people's working lives. With our momentum—backed by a $17.3 billion valuation and $1 B in Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) in just over five years—you'll drive meaningful impact while building expertise that makes you a sought-after leader in the transformation of global work.

About The Role

We're building Deel's payroll operations for Italy to capture a significant market opportunity. This is a greenfield build. You'll be the founding product leader for Italy, working with a dedicated engineering team to design and launch payroll, HR, time tracking, and related products that serve Italy's complex regulatory and business environment.

As Country PM, you'll own end-to-end product strategy and execution. You'll work across compliance, engineering, payroll operations, HR, and time tracking to translate local requirements into products that work. You'll make critical trade-off decisions: what to build first, what gets deferred, and how to hit market timelines without overcommitting.

The Context

Italy represents both significant opportunity and technical complexity. As a major EU economy with one of Europe's most rigid and complex labor systems, Italy requires mastery of CCNL (collective bargaining agreements), Italian Labor Law (Codice del Lavoro), INPS social security contributions, and dual tax systems. You'll work with enterprises navigating one of the continent's most sophisticated—and most regulated—payroll landscapes.

We're building on Deel's internal infrastructure, which means you'll coordinate across multiple product teams and navigate technical complexity that a third-party vendor would hide. You own translating Italy's requirements into engineering work and prioritizing ruthlessly against your team's capacity.

What You'll Do

• Define product strategy for the Italian market across payroll, HR, time, and services
• Work with your dedicated engineering team to execute on the roadmap
• Coordinate across Product (payroll engine), Time, HRIS, and Services teams to align on dependencies
• Break complex requirements into iterative pieces. Ship early, learn from customers, iterate
• Own the relationship with key accounts, understanding their needs and validating your solutions
• Work with sales, implementation, and local compliance teams to ensure we're building something that can scale
• Think like an entrepreneur. This is a new market opportunity, and you're building the playbook from scratch
• Use AI to speed up the build, getting rules in and scale in collaboration with local compliance teams.
• Master Italian labor law (CCNL collective bargaining, INPS requirements, regional variations) and build solutions that comply with Italy's strict employment regulations
• Position Italy as the anchor market for Deel's Mediterranean and Southern Europe expansion

What We're Looking For

• Based in EMEA (Italian market proximity and cultural understanding critical)
• Fluent Italian speaker (plus fluent English required for coordination)
• Comfort navigating ambiguity and making good decisions with incomplete information
• Strong stakeholder management. You'll coordinate across teams and external partners
• Pragmatism and systems thinking. You need to understand how payroll, HR, time tracking, and compliance fit together

Ideal To Have

• Deep understanding of Italian labor law, CCNL agreements, INPS system, or previous work in Italian payroll
• Prior experience building payroll systems or working in payroll product roles
• Track record launching new products or entering new markets
• Experience with enterprise customers or complex business requirements

Total Rewards

Our workforce deserves fair and competitive pay that meets them where they are. With scalable benefits, rewards, and perks, our total rewards programs reflect our commitment to inclusivity and access for all.

• Our salary range reflects gross base salary. For commercial roles with commission eligibility, this figure represents On-Target Earnings (OTE), inclusive of base salary and target commission.
• Salary ranges are quoted in USD as a consistent global reference. Your offer will be localized to your country's currency using a market-aligned conversion.
• Final pay is based on objective, job-related criteria including experience, skills, and location.
• We don't ask about salary history. Offers are based on the role and what you bring to it.

Some things you'll enjoy

• Stock grant opportunities dependent on your role, employment status and location
• Additional perks and benefits based on your employment status and country
• Optional flexible working office membership, with IWG

At Deel, we're an equal-opportunity employer that values diversity and positively encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of race, religion, sex, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, pregnancy or maternity or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

Unless otherwise agreed, we will communicate with job applicants using Deel-specific emails, which include @deel.com and other acquired company emails like @payspace.com and @paygroup.com. You can view the most up-to-date job listings at Deel by visiting our careers page.

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