Director, Product Management

Papaya Global is a rapidly growing, award-winning B2B tech unicorn with a mission to revolutionize the payroll and payments industry. With over $400M raised from top-tier investors, our innovative technology provides a comprehensive solution for managing global workforces, from hiring and onboarding to managing and paying employees in over 160 countries.

In this fast-paced, dynamic environment, you'll have the opportunity to make a real impact on the future of work. If you're a self-starter with a passion for innovation and a commitment to excellence, we want to hear from you.

As a member of our team, you'll have access to a wide range of resources and support to help you succeed, including ongoing training and professional development

You will:

• Set, drive and execute the product strategy of Papaya Global’s leading Platform to enable complex data workflows and pipelines that move and process data at scale
• Attract, build, manage, and develop a talented, diverse, equitable and inclusive mission driven team of product managers and product leaders
• Lead a team through the ideation, technical development, and launch of innovative products
• Drive product development with a team of world-class engineers and designers
• Manage multiple products and priorities, scale teams, and ensure org is effective, healthy and set up for success by establishing clear and measurable goals
• Identify strategic areas of new investment and generating budget models for product expansion
• Work closely with other teams at Papaya Global to ensure efficient and productive working relationships
• Understand the market, and competition, and champion our users to craft product strategies that will lead to long-term success
• Lead by example. Be incredibly truth-seeking and finger-tippy with data, set a high bar for the team to think boldly and creatively and then to funnel that energy into concrete products and execution plans, move fast and be biased toward action

Requirements:

• 12+ years of experience in Product Management, working collaboratively with engineering, design and user research teams
• 8+ years of experience hiring, managing, and developing both individual contributors and senior product leaders
• 8+ years experience leading teams and driving strategy at SaaS/PaaS business
• A high bar across the board - from your own contributions to the people you work with to the products you work on
• You never hesitate to roll up your sleeves and address something hands-on
• Deep prior experience in building platforms - implementing API/services layer and deconstructing data monoliths
• Experience with system telemetry, logging, and measurement
• You're equally comfortable explaining your team's analysis and recommendations to executives as you are discussing the technical tradeoffs in product development with engineers
• BA/BS in Computer Science or related field. Technical understanding must go from the highest abstractions down to the hardware

Nice to have:

• Experience building 1-N products, platform/ecosystem products
• Background in engineering, data and analytics preferred, with experience shipping production internal and external platforms
• Love for team-building and eagerness for sleeves-up design and architecture collaboration with engineering