Country Product Manager - Italy

Deel; Sassari; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock grants

Flexible office membership

Equity-for-all culture

Country-specific perks

Job summary

Deel seeks a product leader to launch and own payroll, HR, and time-tracking solutions for Italy. You will guide cross-functional teams, design market-ready capabilities, and ensure regulatory compliance in collaboration with local partners.

This is a high-impact role shaping Deel’s expansion in Southern Europe. You will work with engineering, sales, and compliance to define strategy, ship iterative capabilities, and build a scalable market entry playbook from scratch.

Qualifications

• Experience building payroll or payroll product capabilities.
• Deep understanding of Italian labor law (CCNL) and INPS contributions.
• Fluent in Italian and English for coordination.

Responsibilities

• Define the product strategy for the Italian market across payroll, HR, time, and services.
• Lead an engineering team to execute the roadmap.
• Coordinate dependencies across Product (payroll engine), Time, HRIS, and Services teams.
• Break complex requirements into iterative increments and ship fast.
• Own relationships with key accounts and validate solutions with customers.
• Collaborate with sales, implementation, and local compliance teams to enable scalable solutions.
• Think entrepreneurially to build a market entry playbook from scratch.
• Leverage AI to accelerate build and ensure regulatory compliance in collaboration with local teams.
• Master Italian labor law (CCNL, INPS, regional variations) to ensure compliant solutions.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Entrepreneurial mindset

Communication

Italian labor law

Payroll product experience

Job description

Overview

In this role you lead Deel’s payroll operations for Italy, acting as the founding product leader for a greenfield market. You’ll own end-to-end strategy with cross-functional teams to design payroll, HR, and time-tracking solutions tailored to Italy’s regulatory landscape. You’ll balance ambitious market timelines with prudent prioritization while leveraging AI to accelerate delivery. This is a high-impact opportunity to shape Deel’s Mediterranean expansion and drive cross-country product alignment.

Retribuzione / Benefits

• Stock grant opportunities
• Optional flexible office membership (IWG)
• Equity-for-all commitment and inclusive culture
• Additional country-specific perks depending on location

Responsabilità

• Define the product strategy for the Italian market across payroll, HR, time, and services
• Lead an engineering team to execute the roadmap
• Coordinate dependencies across Product (payroll engine), Time, HRIS, and Services teams
• Break complex requirements into iterative increments and ship fast
• Own relationships with key accounts and validate solutions with customers
• Collaborate with sales, implementation, and local compliance teams to enable scalable solutions
• Think entrepreneurially to build a market entry playbook from scratch
• Leverage AI to accelerate build and ensure regulatory compliance in collaboration with local teams
• Master Italian labor law (CCNL, INPS, regional variations) to ensure compliant solutions
• Position Italy as the anchor market for Deel’s Southern Europe expansion

Requisiti fondamentali

• Based in EMEA with proximity to the Italian market
• Fluent in Italian and English for coordination
• Comfort with ambiguity and making decisions with incomplete information
• Strong stakeholder management across multiple teams and external partners
• Pragmatism and systems thinking to connect payroll, HR, time tracking and compliance

• stakeholder management
• ambition and entrepreneurial mindset
• communication and collaboration
• deep understanding of Italian labor law (CCNL) and INPS contributions
• experience building payroll or payroll product capabilities
• enterprise customer experience or complex requirements handling