Senior Product Manager, APIs

Role Description

This is an exciting time to join Remote as a Senior Product Manager, Payroll, an IC role for someone with genuinely high technical depth — trading management scope for depth. You'll partner with your Engineering Team Lead and Staff Engineers on architecture and technical direction as a peer, not an observer, forming your own technical opinions and prototyping to answer questions rather than scheduling a meeting about them.

Your mission is to own your product area end to end: not just the software, but the full experience customers and internal teams get from it, including the API surface other teams and integrators build on.

Qualifications

• Proficiency in Cursor and/or Claude Code is required.
• Experience as product manager in a high-growth company.
• Experience working in payroll, HR, benefits, fintech, or similar.
• Great judgment making both strategic (what to prioritize) 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’re satisfying critical business requirements.
• Business-level proficiency writing and speaking English.
• Bonus: experience working remotely.

Requirements

• Partner with the Engineering Team Lead and Staff Engineers on architecture, design quality, and technical direction.
• Form independent, well-reasoned technical opinions and hold your own in design reviews as a peer.
• Prototype and write code to de-risk ideas, answer open questions, or ship small pieces yourself rather than defaulting to a meeting.
• Own products where APIs are the product surface.
• Design contracts, guide versioning and backwards compatibility, and own the developer experience for teams and systems integrating with your product.
• Sit with the specialists and ops teams doing the manual work, observe real workflows, and prioritize based on where the pain actually is.
• Own adoption and hypercare, not just delivery — including whether what you shipped is actually being used months later.
• Work closely with payroll and tax experts on research and requirements, convene across teams, and onboard others into context generously.
• Document decisions and reasoning in writing (specs, Looms, proposals) so your thinking is inspectable and can be challenged.

Benefits

• Work from anywhere.
• Flexible paid time off.
• Flexible working hours (we are async).
• 16 weeks paid parental leave.
• Budget towards co-working spaces, learning and wellness (including gym memberships).
• Mental health support services.
• Stock options.
• Home office budget & IT equipment.