Product Manager - Payroll

Openkrill; United States; Remote; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Asynchronous working environment

Remote-first / Hybrid

Work from abroad for a short period

Growth opportunities

Hardware provided

Job summary

Remote People is building a borderless payroll platform and seeks a product leader to own the strategy and roadmap for payroll, compliance, and integrations. You will work with Analytics, Ops, and partners to remove bottlenecks and build trust with customers.

You will collaborate with engineering and design as a triad to tackle platform-level complexity, data models, and cross-service trade-offs while maintaining a living knowledge base of country-specific rules.

Qualifications

• 4+ years in product leading complex B2B SaaS or HR-tech/fintech products such as payroll, compliance, integrations.
• Strong product fundamentals; you manage the product, not just the backlog.
• Excellent stakeholder management; you can bridge teams without burning bridges.
• Clear, concise communication that can explain PRDs to engineers.
• Experience with platform-level complexity and cross-service trade-offs.

Responsibilities

• Own the product strategy and roadmap for your area from problem definition through delivery.
• Lead discovery with Payroll, Operations, and partner teams to remove bottlenecks and reduce errors.
• Partner with engineering and design as a triad to design solutions.
• Improve payroll calc issues, reporting gaps, and partner connectivity to reduce escalations.
• Own payroll calculation and reporting outputs to keep them accurate and clear.
• Build and maintain country-specific payroll and compliance knowledge bases.
• Ensure robust partner connectivity across payroll partners and data flows.

Skills

Product management

Stakeholder management

Concise communication

Platform-level products

Operational instinct

Job description

About Remote People

At Remote People, we're building the infrastructure to power borderless teams. By handling global payroll, benefits, taxes, and compliance, our technology enables businesses to hire anyone anywhere compliantly at the push of a button.

We're committed to building a global, diverse team representing different and varied backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences. We welcome applications from everyone, regardless of gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, civil or family status, age, or disability. Being part of Remote People means being part of a growing, international family.

Responsibilities

• Own the product strategy and roadmap for your area, from problem definition through delivery and iteration
• Lead discovery with Payroll, Operations, and partner teams, ensuring we solve manual bottlenecks, avoid calculation errors and create trust with our customers
• Partner with engineering and design as a true triad, facilitating problem discovery and solution design as a team
• Improve how payroll calculation issues, reporting gaps, and partner connectivity problems are surfaced and resolved, reducing escalations and rework for Ops and Payroll teams
• Own the payroll calculation and reporting layer; ensure outputs are accurate, clear and understandable
• Build and maintain our country-specific payroll and compliance knowledge base, keeping it accurate as rules change
• Maintain robust partner connectivity across payroll partners, ensuring data flows correctly and integrations don’t break downstream reporting

Requirements

• 4+ years in product, with experience owning complex B2B SaaS or HR-tech/fintech products: payroll, compliance, integrations, or financial operations
• Strong product fundamentals. You manage your product, not your backlog.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills. You cross bridges without burning them.
• You practice concise communication. No corporate slop. A 5 year old can explain your PRDs to your engineering team.
• You’ve worked on platform-level products with real system complexity: data models, integrations, cross-service dependencies and you know how to reason about trade-offs across product, operations, and engineering
• Strong operational instinct: you understand how payroll accuracy, reporting reliability, and partner connectivity connect to customer trust

  What it's like working at Remote People

  Our service & product. We're a technology company, not an accountancy, payroll provider, recruitment firm or similar. We build a workforce management platform that allows our customers to hire the best talent in minutes, without worrying about compliance, payroll, or HR admin.

  Our amazing team and environment. Working at Remote People means you're working on something very exciting: Allowing every person on the planet to have access to equal opportunities in living a fulfilled work and personal life. We believe in hiring from within and going the extra mile to retain top talent. As the company continues to grow extremely fast, you will be given the opportunity to develop and grow alongside.

  Our benefits and perks.

  Being part of Remote People means that you get the benefit of:

  • A competitive salary
  • An asynchronous working environment
  • A "Remote-First" company environment (or Hybrid) - based on the nature of the job
  • The ability to work from abroad for a short period of time
  • Growth opportunities within the company
  • We provide all new joiners with the necessary hardware to ensure you have the tools you need to succeed from day one