Program Manager, Product

Justworks; New York (NY); On-site; USD 127,000 - 139,700; Full time

Job summary

Justworks is looking for a Program Manager to drive cross-functional initiatives within our Technology team. This role requires strong project management skills and the ability to collaborate with teams across Product, Design, Engineering and Data. You'll facilitate coordination and clear communication while tracking multiple priorities and managing risks.

The ideal candidate has 3-5+ years of experience in program management, possesses a strategic mindset, and is comfortable working in a fast-paced environment. The position is based in New York City, with a competitive salary range of $127,000 - $139,700 per year.

Qualifications

• 3-5+ years of project or program management experience in a cross-functional environment.
• Strong business acumen, especially in tech/SaaS companies.
• Demonstrated ability to drive execution across cross-functional initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Lead execution of cross-functional programs, driving alignment and delivery.
• Facilitate program operating rhythms with various teams.
• Track progress against plans and escalate risks as needed.

Skills

Project management

Cross-functional collaboration

Analytical mindset

Communication skills

Creative problem-solving

Tools

SQL

Tableau

Excel

Job description

About the team

This role reports to the Manager of Program Management under the Technology Strategy & Operations team. Our Program Management function plays a vital role in keeping Justworks’ Technology Division – comprising Product, Design, Engineering, and Data – focused and connected. We connect dots and break silos across teams by maintaining an effective operating cadence, managing strategic initiatives, and leading special projects that help translate strategy into execution.

Who You Are

You’re excited by the idea of leading initiatives across the organization and driving impact. Everything you deliver is backed by a solid strategy. You maintain confidence throughout your work while staying committed to getting things done.

As a Program Manager on the Technology team, you will work closely with Product, Design, Engineering, and Data, in partnership with teams across Revenue, Operations, and Legal, to accelerate the delivery of high-impact initiatives that are critical to driving our strategy and alignment with company goals. You will drive product initiatives forward that have multiple stakeholders, competing deadlines, and many moving parts. In this role, you’ll act as a bridge between functions and teams, helping connect work across the organization and ensuring clarity, alignment, and follow-through. You will leverage and apply program management frameworks to support effective execution, manage dependencies, and drive accountability and delivery across initiatives within a core product domain.

You are comfortable bringing structure to ambiguity, tracking progress against plans, and escalating risks or trade-offs as needed to keep work moving forward. You thrive in cross-functional environments and are motivated by seeing complex initiatives translate into real outcomes.

Your Success Profile

What You Will Work On

As a Program Manager on the Technology team, you will be responsible for driving execution across one or more key initiatives within a core product or business domain. You will partner closely with Technology professionals and cross-functional leaders to ensure work is well-coordinated, risks are managed, and outcomes are delivered.

You will:

• Lead the execution of cross-functional programs and initiatives, partnering closely with Product, Design, Engineering, Data, and other stakeholders, including Operations, Compliance, Customer Success, Product Marketing, and Sales
• Support program planning and definition by determining program goals, scope, workstreams, and success metrics in partnership with functional leaders
• Participate in and help drive discovery activities to understand business needs, constraints, and dependencies, translating findings into clear plans, milestones, deliverables, and timelines
• Coordinate work across multiple teams, tracking dependencies, risks, and progress to keep initiatives moving forward
• Facilitate program operating rhythms such as working sessions, check-ins, milestone reviews, and retrospectives
• Develop, maintain, and own core program artifacts, including project plans, status updates, documentation, calendars, and risk logs
• Communicate progress, risks, and key decisions to stakeholders and leadership with clarity and consistency
• Identify, document, and elevate risks, blockers, and trade-offs in a timely manner, proposing options and recommendations when possible
• Support incident and escalation management by organizing response workflows, maintaining visibility into status and risks, and ensuring timely communication and follow-up across stakeholders
• Collect, track, and analyze data to inform decisions, measure progress, and surface insights
• Support change management and rollout efforts, including coordination of enablement, documentation, and internal communications as needed
• Engage with external vendors and partners to coordinate timelines, track deliverables, and support execution, in partnership with internal stakeholders and vendor managers
• Contribute to the evolution of program management practices, templates, and operating norms across the Technology organization
• Perform other related duties as assigned

How You Will Do Your Work

As a Program Manager, results are achieved by how you do your work, which is paramount for your success and ultimately results in our success as an organization. In this role, your foundational knowledge, skills, abilities, and personal attributes are anchored in the following:

• Clear communication - the ability to articulate thoughts and express ideas effectively using oral, written, visual, and nonverbal communication skills, as well as listening skills to gain understanding.
• 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.
• Results-driven - consistently achieves results, even under difficult circumstances.
• Strategic mindset - anticipates future trends and implications accurately; articulates credible pictures and visions of possibilities that will create sustainable value.
• Influence & leadership - fostering a community of knowledge-sharing, collaboration, mentorship, and forward-thinking.
• Detail-oriented - exercises extreme attention to detail; is thorough, accurate, organized, productive, and seeks to understand both the cause and effect of a situation.
• Ethical practice - the ability to integrate core values, integrity, and accountability throughout all organizational and business practices.
• Customer focus - builds strong customer relationships and delivers customer-centric solutions.
• Analytical - uses a logical reasoning process to break down and work through a situation or problem to arrive at an outcome.
• Good judgment - the exercise of critical thinking, analyzing and assessing problems and implications, identifying patterns, making connections of underlying issues, understanding risks and developing mitigation strategies, and taking ownership of the outcome.

Qualifications

• 3-5+ years of project or program management, strategy, or operations experience in a cross-functional environment (working across teams like Product, Design, Engineering, Strategy, and GTM)
• Strong business acumen, including an understanding of tech/SaaS companies
• Ability to learn about Justworks’ product, organizational structure, and other domains quickly
• Demonstrated ability to drive execution and deliver outcomes across cross-functional initiatives, balancing competing priorities, dependencies, and timelines
• Demonstrated ability to build trust and collaborate productively with a wide range of partners and perspectives
• Strong organizational and communication skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and engage stakeholders at varying levels
• Analytical mindset, with comfort using data to inform decisions and track progress, including experience with data tools/language such as SQL, Tableau, and Excel
• Creative problem-solver with a passion for making complex things simple

The base wage range for this position based in our New York City Office is targeted at $127,000 - $139,700 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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