Senior Product Manager, Time (opens in a new tab)

At Justworks, you’ll enjoy a welcoming and casual environment, great benefits, wellness program offerings, company retreats, and the ability to interact with and learn from leaders in the startup community. We work hard and care about our most prized asset - our people. We’re helping businesses get off the ground by enabling them to focus on running their business. We solve HR issues. We’re data-driven and never stop iterating. If you’d like to work in a supportive, entrepreneurial environment, are interested in building something meaningful and having fun while doing it, we’d love to hear from you. We're united by shared goals and shared motivations at Justworks. These are best summed up in our company values, which are reflected in our product and in our team. If this sounds like you, you’ll fit right in. About the team / Product at Justworks The Justworks Product team advances our mission by building products that extend levels of personal care and deep expertise that our customers have never experienced before. They craft innovative solutions that guide users through the most complicated challenges of running (and working for) a small business, with ease. They deeply understand complex regulatory spaces like FinTech, Healthcare, and HRTech, and have a keen intuition for how to connect threads across our customers’ needs and our business’ risk management and commercialization strategy. Our Product Managers lead highly collaborative creative endeavors, bringing together stakeholders across engineering, design, data services, operations, and customer-facing teams to deliver tangible value. By joining us, you’ll be part of an experienced team of Product Managers who have a proven track record of building large-scale software products that impact small businesses worldwide. We’re looking for teammates who will help shape Justworks’ future and make a profound impact on our business. As a Product Manager, you’ll be working across complex spaces (Fintech, Healthcare, HR Tech - all with serious policy/regulatory environments). Care is at the center of everything we do, and you’ll need to love talking with customers and engaging with our Customer Success, Sales and Marketing teams to make sure that care is coming through in every part of our customers’ experience. You’ll be joining a diverse community of craftspeople who are passionate about learning, uphold exceptionally high standards of quality, and foster an environment of strategic thinking where product people can reach new heights. About the role The Product Foundations & Time domain stewards the core experiences, infrastructure, and workforce tools that underpin how administrators and their employees navigate, track, and manage their work on Justworks. It owns the systems that enable accurate time tracking, PTO and time-off management, mobile access, reporting, navigation, and shared product surfaces, forming the reliable, high-performance foundation that supports every Justworks product and empowers businesses to stay compliant, productive, and connected. Within Product Foundations & Time, the Time mission team owns how Justworks customers manage workforce time: time off and time worked. Time Off covers leave policies, PTO balances, and the workflows admins and employees use to request and approve time away. Time Worked covers how hours are captured, reviewed, and passed to payroll across Justworks’ customer base. As a Senior Product Manager on Time, you’ll play a high-impact role driving the roadmap for the Time mission team. You’ll focus on scoping and prioritizing new initiatives with research-backed case development. You’ll then work through the complete product development lifecycle to successful delivery. A meaningful part of this role is navigating the regulatory and operational complexity inherent to time and attendance, translating compliance requirements and payroll dependencies into product decisions that are simple for customers. As a champion for your team’s focus and productivity, you’ll remove obstacles and develop team camaraderie to ensure maximum , high-quality output that aligns with Justworks’ business objectives. Though not yet actively teaching product management, you'll operate independently within your scope and clearly articulate the reasoning behind your decisions to your peers and cross-functional stakeholders. Day-to-day, you'll work closely with engineering to drive time tracking accuracy, payroll integration quality, and platform scalability, and with operations, compliance, and customer-facing teams to understand how workforce time management needs are evolving across our growing customer base. Responsibilities Own and drive the product vision and roadmap for your respective pod Conduct high-quality research to inform case development and product decisions. Demonstrate expertise in the PDLC and effectively tie insights to roadmap outcomes. Scope, prioritize, and execute projects to deliver measurable business impact while ensuring clarity on objectives, leverage, and accountability for outcomes. Partner deeply with Design and Engineering peers and organize and lead effective team processes and routines. Demonstrate a rich understanding of engineering concepts, concerns and tradeoffs, and effectively communicate them to manage stakeholder expectations around deadlines and scope. Drive camaraderie with your team while demonstrating effective collaboration with PMs across other pods/teams. Identify and take on opportunities beyond core responsibilities to support product strategy and drive impact. What you’ll need Minimum of 5 years of product management experience in a modern technology business. A comprehensive understanding of the craft of Product Management and demonstrated success in mastering the PDLC. Experience leading complex, cross-team initiatives from ideation to execution. Comfortable engaging with technical concepts and working closely with engineering partners Experience building new products (0 to 1) as well as a track record of shipping continuous product improvements to an existing product portfolio at-scale. Strong problem-solving skills, capable of breaking down complex problems for team execution against business needs. Deep user empathy and a high bar for user experience. Strong communication skills for effectively conveying product-related matters, including changes in scope or strategic direction. Experience at high-growth companies is preferred, in a founder or GM capacity is a plus. Experience building products in a highly regulated domain (e.g. fintech or healthcare) is a plus. The base wage range for this position based in our New York City Office is targeted at $166,000.00 - $214,000.00 per year. Actual compensation is based on multiple factors that are unique to each candidate, including and not limited to skill set, level of relevant experience, and specific work location. Salary ranges for positions based in other locations may differ based on the cost of labor in that location. For more information about Justworks’ Total Reward Philosophy, including all of the perks and benefits we are proud to offer our team members, please visit Total Rewards @ Justworks . Diversity At Justworks Justworks is committed to maintaining a workplace where diversity of identity, culture, and life experience is the norm and is celebrated authentically and respected consistently. Diversity in our work, our people, and our product drives creativity and innovation, entrepreneurial leadership and integrity, competitiveness, and collaboration throughout our business and in the market. We depend on our differences to make our team stronger, our workplace more dynamic, and our product accessible to all of our customers. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer open to all qualified applicants regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital or familial status, disability, pregnancy, gender identity or expression, veteran status, genetic information, or any other legally protected status. Justworks is fully dedicated to providing necessary support to candidates with disabilities who may require reasonable accommodations. We also provide reasonable accommodations to employees based on their sincerely held religious beliefs, as well as for other covered reasons consistent with applicable federal, state, and local laws. If you're in need of a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to us at View email address on click.appcast.io . Your comfort and success matter to us, and we're here to ensure an inclusive experience. Just Be You We’re committed to building a culture where everyone feels welcome, supported, and empowered to thrive. We believe that a wide range of perspectives, experiences, and identities strengthens our team and helps us create the kind of workplace—and world—we want to see. We believe that in order to gather accurate demographic information we need to move beyond traditional questions about gender, race and ethnicity, and sexual orientation in favor of more inclusive and open-ended approaches. Of course, thinking around these areas is ever-evolving so, wherever applicable please feel free to select "I prefer to self-describe" and then elaborate so we can use your feedback to inform survey selections in the future. Participation in this survey is completely optional. Any responses you choose to share will not be associated with your application and will not in any way be used in any hiring decision. We are collecting this information to deepen our understanding of our candidate pool and to continue to foster a welcoming and equitable hiring experience for all. At Justworks, we are building an open, inclusive, and collaborative culture that values each person’s unique potential. We strive to help every Justworker grow with confidence in the collective service of our company, our community, and our customers. We know that creating a truly inclusive workplace where everyone thrives is an ongoing journey—one that requires consistency, accountability, and shared commitment. We’re proud of the company we’re building together, one great Justworker at a time. #J-18808-Ljbffr Justworks, Inc.