Senior Product Manager, Contractor Management

About Remote

Remote is solving global remote organizations’ biggest challenge: employing anyone anywhere compliantly. We make it possible for businesses big and small to employ a global team by handling global payroll, benefits, taxes, and compliance. Check out remote.com/how-it-works to learn more or if you’re interested in adding to the mission, scroll down to apply now.

Please take a look at remote.com/handbook to learn more about our culture and what it is like to work here. Not only do we encourage folks from all ethnic groups, genders, sexuality, age and abilities to apply, but we prioritize a sense of belonging. You can check out independent reviews by other candidates on Glassdoor or look up the results of our candidate surveys to see how others feel about working and interviewing here.

All of our positions are fully remote. You do not have to relocate to join us!

The position

This is an exciting time to join Remote and make a personal difference in the global employment space as a Senior Product Manager, joining our Product team in the Contractors vertical and working as part of the Contractor Management Team. You'll have a massive impact on our organization and will help create opportunities for millions of people around the world.

As a Senior Product Manager at Remote, you'll be developing and guiding our strategy for one of our key product areas. You'll advance this vision by working with a cross-functional engineering and design group to find our most important problems and shape iterative solutions towards them.

General requirements

• Experience as a product manager in a high-growth company.
• Experience working in a B2B SaaS environment, ideally in payroll, HR, benefits, billing, fintech, or similar. Ideally hands-on experience working with contractors
• Great judgment in making both strategic (what to prioritise) and tactical (feature scope) decisions
• Demonstrable, self-driven results that have moved a product in the right direction
• A strong sense of product design (UX)
• A passion for products that just work, even if the problems they solve are boring and complicated
• Outstanding communication and collaboration skills, including across different departments (e.g. business operations, sales, etc.) to ensure that we satisfy critical customer and business requirements
• Business-level proficiency in writing and speaking English.

Key Responsibilities

• Build solutions together with the rest of the team that serve the needs of contractors and freelancers
• Collaborate with the Principal Product manager and General Manager to create long-term strategic plans for your team
• Form and share a near-term strategic vision for your product area that incorporates market research, competitive analysis, and other inputs
• Drive Remote in the right direction by building an effective roadmap for your area of the product
• Lead on solutions independently. You should be able to work autonomously on impactful features and iterations, mostly needing support when solving cross-team problems
• Work together with engineers, designers and stakeholders to build solutions to important customer problems
• Own not just software implementation but the end-to-end experience: Remote delivers value through services powered by both humans and software
• Manage internal expectations for your team's timelines, products, and features
• Contribute to tactical and strategic decision-making for your business area
• Be the subject matter expert for your product area
• Ship improvements iteratively, challenging yourself and your partners to find minimal solutions to problems
• Understand key business KPIs and align your team's work and metrics to directly improve to these
• Work asynchronously and transparently.

Practicals

• You'll report to: Director of Product
• Direct reports: n/a
• Team: Product, Contractor Management
• Location: You can be based anywhere. We will be prioritising applications from EMEA, LATAM and APAC in the first instance.
• Start date: As soon as possible

Remote Compensation Philosophy

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.

At first glance our salary bands seem quite wide - here is some context. At Remote we have international operations and a globally distributed workforce. We use geo ranges to consider geographic pay differentials as part of our global compensation strategy to remain competitive in various markets while we hiring globally.

The base salary range for this full-time position is $58,000 to $120,000. 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.

Application process

1. Interview with recruiter
2. Interview with future manager
3. Product Deep Dive (async challenge)
4. Interview x 2 with team members
5. Offer (async)
6. Prior employment verification check

Benefits

• work from anywhere
• unlimited personal time off (minimum 4 weeks)
• quarterly company-wide day off for self care
• 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 remote.com/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

1. Please fill out the form below and upload your CV with a PDF format.
2. We kindly ask you to submit your application and CV in English, as this is the standardised language we use here at Remote.
3. 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.

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.