Staff Product Manager

Remote

Remote

Product
United States
Posted on Sep 3, 2024

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 Staff Product Manager, joining our Product team. You'll have a massive impact on our organization, and will help create opportunities for millions of people around the world.

As a Staff 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 product manager in a high-growth company working within the HR tech sector
  • Great judgment making both strategic (what to prioritize) and tactical (feature scope) decisions
  • Driven demonstrable results by moving a product in the right direction
  • A strong sense of design and UX
  • A passion for products that just work, even if the problems they solve are boring and complicated
  • Outstanding communication and collaboration skills
  • Business-level proficiency writing and speaking English.

Key responsibilities

  • Build solutions together with the rest of the team that solve for HR, benefits, and other services Remote offers
    • Own not just software implementation, but the end-to-end experience: Remote delivers value through services powered by both humans and software
    • Lead on complex solutions without requiring support or involvement from senior members of the product team
    • Manage internal expectations for complex projects, products, and features
    • Provide coaching and mentorship to others about tactical and strategic decision-making
  • Drive Remote in the right direction by building an effective roadmap and strategy for your area of the product
    • Build out a 3 year strategic vision that incorporates market research, competitive analysis, and other inputs
    • Break down long-term strategic plans into near and mid-term goals that's easy for others to understand
    • Contributes to scaling and growth plans for their product area
  • Ship improvements quickly and iteratively, challenging yourself and counterparts to find minimal solutions to problems
    • Support and leads a product team delivering high throughput and high return on investment
    • Advance key KPIs related to product team goals
    • Work together with engineers and designers to build intricate solutions to complex problems
  • Communicate and collaborate internally and externally
    • Guide and mentor peers
    • Communicate and evangelize the product, roadmap, and process changes inside and outside of Remote
    • Leads by example on asynchronous workflows and transparency

Practicals

  • You'll report to: Director of Product
  • Direct reports: none. This is an individual contributor role
  • Team: Product
  • Location: USA
  • 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 $177,000 to $238,000. 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.

At Remote, we foster internal mobility as a key element of our culture of employee growth and development, supported by a compensation philosophy that guarantees pay equity and fairness. Therefore, all compensation changes associated with an internal move will be reviewed by the Total Rewards & People Enablement team on a case by case basis.

Application process

  1. Interview with recruiter
  2. Interview with future manager
  3. Interview with team members x 2
  4. Prior employment verification check
  5. Offer async

Benefits

Our full benefits & perks are explained in our handbook at remote.com/r/benefits. As a global company, each country works differently, but some benefits/perks are for all Remoters:
  • 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.