Product Manager - US Payroll

Darwinbox; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

401(k)

Paid time off

Job summary

Darwinbox is an HR technology platform expanding in the US, owning the payroll engine for hourly and salaried workforces. You’ll define what gets built, write requirements, and stand behind outcomes with customers across federal, state, and local jurisdictions.

Approximately 80% of your scope is payroll, with the remaining 20% handling time-to-pay, timesheets, and rate differences, in collaboration with US Time & Workforce Management. Remote work within the U.S. is supported.

Qualifications

• Deep, hands-on experience with US payroll in enterprise HCM or payroll product environment.
• Product ownership experience in enterprise SaaS: prioritization, roadmap, and engineering handoff.
• Hands-on configuration and go-live experience of US payroll on a fresh tenant.
• Proven ability to run client conversations independently, including pushback when needed.
• Working knowledge of US time and attendance: overtime, multiple rates, shift differentials.
• Experience using AI tools in product work with a validation method.

Responsibilities

• Own the US payroll roadmap: translate strategy into a prioritized plan and prototype requirements.
• Be the authority on US statutory requirements and regulatory changes.
• Decide what earns product focus and translate decisions into roadmap commitments.
• Stay hands-on: configure US payroll on a new tenant and support go-lives.
• Lead client conversations with US customers and prospects and manage escalations.
• Own the time-to-pay boundary with input on data flows into payroll.

Skills

US payroll

Product decisions

Go-live support

Client conversations

Time & attendance

AI fluency

Job description

Darwinbox is the fastest-growing HRtechnology platform, designing the future of work by building the world's bestHR tech, driven by a fierce focus on employee experience and customer success,and continuous, iterative innovation. We are the preferred choice of 1,400+global enterprises to manage their 4.5 million+ employees across 130+countries.

Darwinbox's new-age HCM suitecompetes with local as well as global players in the enterprise technologyspace (such as SAP, Oracle, and Workday). The firm has acquired notablecustomers ranging from large conglomerates to unicorn start-ups: DP World, Masafi,DIFC, Abu Dhabi Department of Finance, Nivea, Starbucks, Swiggy, DLF, Crisil,CRED, Vedanta, Mahindra, Glenmark, Gokongwei Group, Mitra Adiperkasa, EFSFacilities Management, VNG Corporation, and many more.

Our vision of building aworld-class product company from Asia is backed by marquee global investorslike Microsoft, Salesforce, Sequoia Capital, and Lightspeed Venture Partners.

About the Role

You will own what Darwinbox'spayroll engine does for US employers: how pay is calculated, taxed, paid, andreported across federal, state, and local jurisdictions, for hourly andsalaried workforces alike. This is a product role with implementation-gradedomain depth. You decide what gets built, write the requirements engineeringbuilds from, and stand behind the result in front of customers. When a clientasks whether Darwinbox can meet a requirement, you answer; when the answer isno, you own the roadmap.

Roughly 80% of your scope ispayroll. The remaining 20% is the time-to-pay boundary: how timesheets,overtime, multiple rates, and shift premiums arrive in gross pay, owned jointlywith the Product Manager for US Time & Workforce Management.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the US payroll roadmap: Translate US payrollstrategy into a prioritized roadmap, detailed requirements, and prototypes.Weigh customer impact, regulatory need, and the long-term cost of maintaining acapability across hundreds of clients.
• Be the authority on US statutory requirements: Federal, state, and local withholding; multi-state employment and reciprocity; local jurisdiction taxes; hourly versus salaried treatment and overtime; garnishments, deductions, and benefits taxation; annual state reports andyear-end (W-2, 1099); and industry-specific needs. Track regulatory change andturn it into product ahead of effective dates.
• Decide what earns a place in the product: Assessclient requirements against current capability. Say clearly what Darwinboxsupports today, what configuration can meet, and what must be built, andconvert the last into roadmap commitments engineering can hold.
• Stay hands-on: Build and configure US payroll ona fresh tenant end to end, and support implementations and go-lives. Use whatyou find to improve the product before customers find it.
• Run client conversations independently: Leadrequirement discussions, solution reviews, and escalations with US customersand prospects, and earn the trust of US Sales, Pre-Sales, and Customer Successleadership.
• Own the time-to-pay boundary: Define how timedata enters payroll: FLSA overtime and regular-rate inputs, multiple jobs andrates, shift differentials, and retro adjustments, jointly with the US Time& Workforce Management Product Manager.
• Ship, measure, and enable: Work with engineeringthrough build, QA, and release; track adoption after launch; use AI tools dailyto research, write requirements, and prototype; and act as subject matterexpert for Sales, Marketing, and Customer Success.

Qualifications

• US payroll depth: Deep, hands-on experience withUS payroll in an enterprise HCM or payroll product environment. You can explainthe rules, the edge cases, and where systems break: multi-state taxation,reciprocity, local jurisdictions, overtime, garnishments, and year-end.
• Product experience: Experience owning productdecisions in enterprise SaaS: prioritization, requirements, roadmap, andshipping with engineering, including things you chose not to build and why.Product ownership earned through payroll solution architecture or implementationleadership at a payroll or HCM vendor also qualifies.
• Hands-on configuration and go-live: Demonstratedability to set up US payroll on a fresh tenant and take it through to go-live,with direct involvement in US payroll implementations.
• Client-facing: Track record of running customerand prospect conversations independently, including pushing back when arequirement should not be built.
• Time & attendance fluency: Working knowledgeof US time and attendance: FLSA overtime, multiple rates, shift differentials,and how time flows into pay.
• AI fluency: Hands-on use of AI tools in yourproduct work, with a concrete method for verifying their output.

Comprehensive benefits package including medicalinsurance plan, 401(k), and paid time off.

Flexible work arrangements (remote within the U.S.).

Professional growth and international careeropportunities within a fast-scaling global organization.

Work Authorization

Applicants must be currentlyauthorized to work in the United States.

Darwinbox is proud to be anEqual Employment Opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committedto creating an inclusive environment for all employees. All qualifiedapplicants will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexualorientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status,or any other legally protected status.