Group Product Manager, Product Foundations

About Justworks Justworks takes the busyness out of growing a business and alleviates the unknown. We’ve combined a simple platform and exceptional 24/7 customer service with the power of a PEO, so all teams have more time to focus on what matters. Get access to corporate-level benefits, seamless payroll, HR tools, and compliance support—all in one place.

Justworks

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justworks.com/lp/what-is-justworks

1,001-5,000 employees

Human Resources Services

New York, NY

2012

Privately Held

59k LinkedIn followers

Raised $159.8M

• Own and drive the product vision and roadmap for your respective teams within the Product Foundations mission, consisting of Core Product, Communications, and Reporting / Analytics squads.
• Align strategy and execution by turning company objectives into actionable team goals and OKRs.
• Partner deeply with other Technology teams, Marketing, and Revenue leadership to develop a best-in-class user experience inside and outside Justwork’s product.
• Ensure products and features are delivered on time, within scope, and with high quality.
• Lead customer-focused product development from ideation to execution while ensuring the customer’s voice guides scope and priorities.
• Build and coach your team in customer-centric practices, promoting consistent, customer-driven processes throughout the PDLC.
• Improve product performance by analyzing launch results and metrics, gathering feedback from customer and prospect-facing teams, sharing insights, and planning iterative enhancements that align with business goals.
• Advocate for robust technical roadmaps by understanding engineering perspectives, balancing technical debt, and collaborating on future-flexible architectures.
• Communicate effectively with stakeholders and leadership, providing updates on product status, timelines, and any blockers.
• Proactively take on opportunities beyond core responsibilities to support product strategy and drive impact.
• As a Group Product Manager, how results are achieved is paramount for your success and ultimately result in our success as an organization. In this role, your foundational knowledge, skills, abilities and personal attributes are anchored in the following competencies
• Customer focus - builds strong customer relationships and delivers customer-centric solutions.
• Teamwork and communication - putting our collective best together through documentation, collaboration, relationship-building, listening, empathy, recruiting, and evangelism.
• Nimble learning - actively learning through experimentation when tackling new problems, using both successes and failures as learning fodder.
• Plans and aligns - breaks down objectives into appropriate initiatives and actions; stages activities with relevant milestones and schedules.
• Business insight - applying knowledge of business and the marketplace to advance the organization’s goals.
• In addition, all Justworkers focus on aligning their behaviors to our core values known as COGIS. It stands for
• Camaraderie - Day to day you can be seen working together toward a higher purpose. You like to have fun. You’re an active listener, treat people respectfully, and have a strong desire to know and help others.
• Openness - Your default is to be open. You're willing to share information, understand other perspectives, and consider new possibilities. You’re curious, ask open questions, and are receptive to thoughts and feedback from others.
• Grit - You demonstrate grit by having the courage to commit and persevere. You’re committed, earnest, and dive in to get the job done well with a positive attitude.
• Integrity - Simply put, do what you say and say what you'll do. You’re honest and forthright, have a strong moral compass, and strive to match your words with your actions while leading by example.
• Simplicity - Be like Einstein: “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.”

Required

• Minimum of 3 years of product development leadership and 7 years as a product manager in a modern technology business.
• Experience leading complex, cross-team initiatives from ideation to execution.
• You’ve led technical products and/or have a background in computer science (or similar).
• 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.
• High bar for product quality and user experience and skilled at breaking down ambiguous problems and sequencing bets.
• 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.
• Excellent persuasion and advocacy skills, using clear frameworks, story-telling and first-principles reasoning.
• Experience coaching and mentoring individual contributors to enhance team performance and effectiveness.
• Experience with platform development a plus.
• 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.

Preferred

• Experience with SQL, data exploration, product analytics tooling (e.g.: Amplitude, Heap), and feature flagging/experimentation.
• Experience with AI tooling and capable of utilizing in day-to-day responsibilities.
• Experience in late-stage or mature B2B SaaS a plus.
• The base wage range for this position based in our New York City Office is targeted at $212,000.00 to $274,000.00 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.
• 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.

• Wellness program
• Company retreats
• Health insurance
• Supportive environment