Product Manager, Core Services

Justworks; New York (NY); On-site; USD 127,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Great benefits

Wellness program

Company retreats

Supportive environment

Job summary

A leading tech company in New York City is seeking a Product Manager to oversee the core services. The role demands skills in owning product strategies, ensuring user satisfaction, and collaborating with engineering. Candidates should have 2+ years in product management within tech, a commitment to problem-solving, and excellent interpersonal skills. The company offers a competitive salary range of $127,000 - $160,000 annually and values diversity and collaboration in its workplace.

Qualifications

• Experience in a modern technology business or equivalent in software engineering, data science, or business analytics.
• Strong commitment to understanding business fundamentals.
• High bar for user experience.

Responsibilities

• Own the products and articulate vision for stakeholders.
• Partner with engineering to prioritize issues.
• Contribute to team problem-solving and processes.

Skills

Problem-solving

User empathy

Persuasion skills

Technical acumen

Collaboration

Education

2 years of product management experience

Job description

Who We Are

At Justworks, you’ll enjoy a welcoming and casual environment, great benefits, wellness program offerings, company retreats, and the ability to interact with and learn from leaders in the startup community. We work hard and care about our most prized asset - our people.

We’re helping businesses get off the ground by enabling them to focus on running their business. We solve HR issues. We’re data-driven and never stop iterating. If you’d like to work in a supportive, entrepreneurial environment, are interested in building something meaningful and having fun while doing it, we’d love to hear from you.

We're united by shared goals and shared motivations at Justworks. These are best summed up in our company values, which are reflected in our product and in our team.

Our Values

If this sounds like you, you’ll fit right in.

About the Team / Product at Justworks

The Justworks Product team advances our mission by building products that extend levels of personal care and deep expertise that our customers have never experienced before. They craft innovative solutions that guide users through the most complicated challenges of running (and working for) a small business, with ease. They deeply understand complex regulatory spaces like FinTech, Healthcare, and HRTech, and have a keen intuition for how to connect threads across our customers’ needs and our business’ risk management and commercialization strategy. Our Product Managers lead highly collaborative creative endeavors, bringing together stakeholders across engineering, design, data services, operations, and customer-facing teams to deliver tangible value.

By joining us, you’ll be part of an experienced team of Product Managers who have a proven track record of building large‑scale software products that impact small businesses worldwide.

About the Role / What You’ll Work On

The Lifecycle domain is responsible for underpinning the end‑to‑end experience of Justworks’ customers—ensuring that every interaction, from shopping to graduation, is frictionless, straightforward, and deeply trustworthy. We build and scale experiences and services that handle our increasing set of customers and their growing needs across more and more stratified workforces. We succeed when our customers discover and pick the right mix of Justworks products for their individual needs, receive best‑in‑class support to run their business confidently, and utilize comprehensive tools to manage their workforce.

Within Lifecycle, the Core Services Mission Team manages all company and member data of Justworks’ customers via a number of API endpoints with an emphasis on performance and stability. Core Services are the backbone of many Justworks products and features. As a Product Manager on Core Services, you’ll spend the majority of your time executing against well‑defined problem sets. You’ll be in high learning mode, obsessing over the needs of our customers, soaking up how the Justworks Product team conducts its work and be expected to execute on all the basic skills of product management with active coaching from your manager. As you gain a richer understanding of our customers and business model, you’ll be involved in increasingly complicated bodies of work.

Your Success Profile

Responsibilities

• Demonstrate ownership for the products you build and an understanding of shipping services that can perform and scale with Justworks
• Shape the strategy and roadmap for key Core Service components and articulate a compelling vision of business impact to stakeholders across the product and engineering organizations
• Partner deeply with engineering to investigate and prioritize issues/bugs and develop technical knowledge with their guidance
• Actively hone your knowledge of the PDLC, from discovery through delivery and iteration
• Build strong relationships across teams by demonstrating curiosity, empathy, and a commitment to customer‑centered partnership
• Contribute to team problem‑solving and actively support or facilitate team processes and ceremonies.
• Take on opportunities beyond core responsibilities to support product strategy and drive impact

How You Will Do Your Work

As a Product Manager, how results are achieved is paramount for your success and ultimately result in our success as an organization. In this role, your foundational knowledge, skills, abilities and personal attributes are anchored in the following competencies:

Customer focus - builds strong customer relationships and delivers customer‑centric solutions. Teamwork and communication - putting our collective best together through documentation, collaboration, relationship‑building, listening, empathy, recruiting, and evangelism. Nimble learning - actively learning through experimentation when tackling new problems, using both successes and failures as learning fodder. Plans and aligns - breaks down objectives into appropriate initiatives and actions; stages activities with relevant milestones and schedules. Business insight - applying knowledge of business and the marketplace to advance the organization’s goals.

In addition, all Justworkers focus on aligning their behaviors to our core values known as COGIS. It stands for:

• Camaraderie - Day to day you can be seen working together toward a higher purpose. You like to have fun. You’re an active listener, treat people respectfully, and have a strong desire to know and help others.
• Openness - Your default is to be open. You're willing to share information, understand other perspectives, and consider new possibilities. You’re curious, ask open questions, and are receptive to thoughts and feedback from others.
• Grit - You demonstrate grit by having the courage to commit and persevere. You’re committed, earnest, and dive in to get the job done well with a positive attitude.
• Integrity - Simply put, do what you say and say what you'll do. You’re honest and forthright, have a strong moral compass, and strive to match your words with your actions while leading by example.
• Simplicity - Be like Einstein: “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.”

Qualifications

• Minimum of 2 years of product management experience in a modern technology business or equivalent experience in software engineering, data science, or business analytics
• A strong commitment to problem‑solving, capable of breaking down complex problems for team execution against business needs
• A willingness to deeply understand the fundamentals of our business model and prioritize your own education and development through interviews with coworkers, customers and prospects
• Deep user empathy and a high bar for user experience
• Excellent persuasion and advocacy skills, using clear frameworks, story‑telling and first‑principles reasoning
• Strong technical acumen is a plus
• Prior experience working in a highly regulated domain (e.g. fintech or healthcare) is a plus.

The base wage range for this position based in our New York City Office is targeted at $127,000.00 - $160,000.00 per year.

Actual compensation is based on multiple factors that are unique to each candidate, including and not limited to skill set, level of relevant experience, and specific work location. Salary ranges for positions based in other locations may differ based on the cost of labor in that location.

For more information about Justworks’ Total Reward Philosophy, including all of the perks and benefits we are proud to offer our team members, please visit Total Rewards @ Justworks.

Diversity At Justworks

Justworks is committed to maintaining a workplace where diversity of identity, culture, and life experience is the norm and is celebrated authentically and respected consistently. Diversity in our work, our people, and our product drives creativity and innovation, entrepreneurial leadership and integrity, competitiveness, and collaboration throughout our business and in the market. We depend on our differences to make our team stronger, our workplace more dynamic, and our product accessible to all of our customers.

We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer open to all qualified applicants regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital or familial status, disability, pregnancy, gender identity or expression, veteran status, genetic information, or any other legally protected status. Justworks is fully dedicated to providing necessary support to candidates with disabilities who may require reasonable accommodations. We also provide reasonable accommodations to employees based on their sincerely held religious beliefs, as well as for other covered reasons consistent with applicable federal, state, and local laws. If you're in need of a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to us at [e-mail]. Your comfort and success matter to us, and we're here to ensure an inclusive experience.

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