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Remote 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.

This is an exciting time to join Remote and make a personal difference in the global employment space.

As a Director of Product, Payroll, you'll lead a team of Group Product Managers and product managers and drive our product strategy for global payroll.

You'll raise the bar for our vision and product management discipline at Remote by fostering a team of kind, talented individuals doing the most impactful work of their careers.

• Complete scope to drive Remote in the right direction by leading on a shared vision for the global payroll product area
• Integrate qualitative and quantitative feedback to set ambitious, measurable goals for your team's success
• Leadership of a team of Group Product Managers and Product Managers to deliver on our shared strategy and goals
• Attract and build a talented, diverse, and thriving product team driving results in a key area of our business
• Communicate and evangelize the product, roadmap, and process changes inside and outside of Remote

• Hands on experience of working in the payroll area as a product manager
• Extensive experience in product management, ideally at high-growth companies
• Demonstrable experience leading teams of high-performing product managers
• Great judgment making both strategic (what to prioritize) and tactical (feature scope) decisions
• Outstanding communication and collaboration skills, including senior leadership
• A strong sense of design and UX
• A passion for products that just work, even if the problems they solve are complicated
• Fluent written and spoken English

• You’ll report to: VP of Product
• Direct reports: 2 Group Product Managers and 12 Product Managers
• Location: We welcome everyone to apply, but we will prioritize applications from EMEA
• Start date: As soon as possible

• Interview with recruiter
• Interview with future manager
• Interview with Design & Engineering stakeholders
• Interview with VP Engineering
• Bar Raiser Interview
• Prior employment verification check

• 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

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.

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

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