Product Manager, Benefits

Remote; Gauteng; Remote; ZAR 1 372 000 - 2 060 000; Full time

Job summary

A global HR platform company is seeking a Product Manager for Benefits Platform & Integrations. You will lead the development of a scalable global benefits infrastructure, ensuring compliant and seamless experiences. The ideal candidate is an experienced product manager with a strong background in benefits, payroll, or HR tech and expertise in API-driven integrations. This role allows for flexible, remote work across diverse teams.

Benefits

Work from anywhere

Flexible paid time off

Flexible working hours

16 weeks paid parental leave

Mental health support

Stock options

Learning budget

Home office budget & IT equipment

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in benefits, payroll, or HR tech roles.
• Comfortable with APIs, SDKs, and integration workflows.
• Analytical and data-savvy with SQL knowledge.
• User-focused mindset to translate needs into products.
• Ability to simplify complex systems in communication.

Responsibilities

• Lead evolution of Remote's benefits platform.
• Conduct market and partner research for new integrations.
• Define roadmap for benefit automation across products.
• Work with Engineering and Design for integration requirements.
• Collaborate to negotiate with benefit providers.

Skills

Product Management

API-driven integrations

SQL proficiency

User focus

Collaborative communication

Job description

About RemoteRemote

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 in scaling our global benefits infrastructure across 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 work and 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.

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

Benefits

• 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.

Your life-work balance is important and you will be encouraged to put yourself and your family first, and fit work around your needs.

If that sounds like something you want, apply now!

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.