Product Manager, Benefits

R; Remote; ZAR 753 000 - 922 000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global employment solutions company is seeking a Product Manager for its Benefits Platform & Integrations. This role focuses on enhancing global benefits infrastructure across all product lines. Responsibilities include managing integrations, optimizing internal tools, and researching market opportunities. Candidates should have solid Product Management experience, be technically savvy with APIs, and be passionate about remote work. This position is fully remote and welcomes diverse applications.

Benefits

Work from anywhere

Flexible paid time off

16 weeks paid parental leave

Mental health support services

Learning budget

Home office budget

Qualifications

• Extensive Product Management experience in benefits, payroll, or HR tech.
• Comfortable with APIs, SDKs, and integration workflows.
• Proficient in SQL for data strategy and insights.

Responsibilities

• Lead the evolution of Remote's benefits platform.
• Conduct market research for new provider integrations.
• Define and deliver the roadmap for automation.

Skills

Product Management experience in benefits or HR tech

Familiarity with APIs and integration workflows

Proficient in SQL

User-focused product design

Collaborative communication skills

Job description

About RemoteRemote is solving modern organizations' biggest challenge – navigating global employment compliantly with ease.

We make it possible for businesses of all sizes to recruit, pay, and manage international teams.

With our core values at heart and future focused work culture, our team works tirelessly on ambitious problems, asynchronously, around the world.

You can find Remoters working from 6 different continents (Antarctica left to go!) and all of our positions are fully remote.

We encourage every member of the Remote team to bring their talents, experiences and culture to the table to help us build the best-in-class HR platform.

If you are energetic, curious, motivated and ambitious, be part of our world.

Apply now and define the future of work!

What this job can offer you

Join Remote as a Product Manager, Benefits Platform & Integrations, where you'll play a pivotal role inscaling our global benefits infrastructureacross all product lines.

This role spans internal and external benefit systems—from sourcing and enrollment to renewals and integrations—ensuring that Remote delivers compliant, competitive, and seamless benefit experiences for customers and employees worldwide.

You'll work at the intersection of technology, partnerships, and operations, shaping how benefits are powered and extended across Remote's ecosystem.

You'll identify, integrate, and evolve connections with benefit providers, build scalable internal tools, and enhance automation for how benefits are offered, managed, and renewed globally.

This is a unique opportunity to influence the future of global work—enabling businesses to support their teams with world-class benefits, wherever they are.

What you bring

• Extensive Product Management experience, ideally in benefits, payroll, or HR tech, with a focus on API-driven and file-based integrations.
• Technically strong, comfortable with APIs, SDKs, and integration workflows spanning multiple domains (e.g., sourcing, enrollment, renewals).
• Analytical and data-savvy, proficient in SQL for validation, insights, and data strategy.
• Empathetic and user-focused, translating customer and operational needs into impactful products.
• Strategic and results-oriented, balancing long-term vision with execution to drive scalability and automation.
• Collaborative communicator, skilled at aligning cross-functional teams (Engineering, Operations, Partnerships, Payroll, Design).
• Clear communicator, able to simplify complex systems in writing and speech.
• Passionate about remote workand global accessibility.
• Fluent in English; remote work experience a plus.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the evolution of Remote's benefits platform, spanning internal tools, external integrations, and data pipelines.
• Conduct market and partner research to identify and evaluate new provider integrations and expansion opportunities.
• Define, prioritize, and deliver on the roadmap for benefit sourcing, enrollment and renewal automation across product lines.
• Partner with Engineering and Design to define integration requirements, system specifications, and testing plans.
• Collaborate with the Partnerships team to identify, negotiate, and scale strategic relationships with benefit providers and platforms.
• Monitor performance and usage metrics to drive optimization, stability, and scalability across benefit systems.
• Act as the subject matter expert for benefits integrations and internal systems, enabling teams across Remote to build on a unified foundation.
• Work cross‑functionally with Payroll, Customer Experience, Benefit Operations, Marketing, and Sales to ensure cohesive benefit delivery and customer experience.

Practicals

You’ll report to: Group Product Manager

Team: Pay Ecosystem – Benefits

Location: For this position we welcome everyone to apply, but we will prioritise applications from the following locations as we encourage our teams to diversify: EMEA and AMER

Start date: As soon as possible

Application process

• Interview with recruiter
• Interview with future manager
• Exercise (async)
• Interview with team members
• Interview with VP, Product
• Bar Raiser Interview
• Prior employment verification check

#LI-DNP

Remote's Total Rewards philosophy is to ensure fair, unbiased compensation and fair equity pay along with competitive benefits in all locations in which we operate.

We do not agree to or encourage cheap‑labor practices and therefore we ensure to pay above in‑location rates.

We hope to inspire other companies to support global talent-hiring and bring local wealth to developing countries.

Our salary ranges are determined by role, level and location, and our job titles may span more than one career level.

The actual base pay for the successful candidate in this role is dependent upon many factors such as location, transferable or job‑related skills, work experience, relevant training, business needs, and market demands.

The base salary range may be subject to change.

The annual salary range for this full‑time position is $45, — $, USD.

Benefits

Our full benefits & perks are explained in our handbook at / r / benefits.

As a global company, each country works differently, but some benefits / perks are for all Remoters :

• work from anywhere
• flexible paid time off
• flexible working hours (we are async)
• 16 weeks paid parental leave
• mental health support services
• stock options
• learning budget
• home office budget & IT equipment
• budget for local in‑person social events or co‑working spaces

How you’ll plan your day (and life)

We work async at Remote which means you can plan your schedule around your life (and not around meetings).

Read more at / async.

You will be empowered to take ownership and be proactive.

When in doubt you will default to action instead of waiting.

Yourlife-work balanceis important and you will be encouraged to put yourself and your family first, and fit work around your needs.

How to apply

Please fill out the form below and upload your CV with a PDF format.

We kindly ask you to submit your application and CV in English, as this is the standardised language we use here at Remote.

If you don't have an up-to-date CV but you are still interested in talking to us, please feel free to add a copy of your LinkedIn profile instead.

Not only do we encourage folks from all ethnic groups, genders, sexuality, age, abilities, disability status and any other under‑represented group to apply, but we prioritize a sense of belonging.

We have 4 ERGs (Women, Disability, Queer, Minorities in Tech) who meet regularly with the People team.

During your interviews and beyond, we ask & encourage anybody who needs an accommodation to request one from our recruiter.

We will ask you to voluntarily tell us your pronouns at interview stage, and you will have the option to answer our anonymous demographic questionnaire when you apply below.

As an equal employment opportunity employer it's important to us that our workforce reflects people of all backgrounds, identities, and experiences and this data will help us to stay accountable.

We thank you for providing this data, if you chose to.

At Remote, we embrace AI as a valuable tool while prioritizing human creativity and authenticity.

We look forward to meeting candidates who balance innovation with genuine expertise and experience.

To learn more about Remote's AI guidelines check see here.

Please note we accept applications on an ongoing basis.