Senior Product Manager, Payroll

About Remote

Remote is solving modern organizations’ biggest challenge – navigating global employment compliantly with ease. We make it possible for businesses of all sizes to recruit, pay, and manage international teams. With our core values at heart and future focused work culture, our team works tirelessly on ambitious problems, asynchronously, around the world. You can find Remoters working from 6 different continents (Antarctica left to go!) and all of our positions are fully remote.

With Innovation as one of the core values, we have built Automation and AI capabilities into the requirements for every role.

We encourage every member of the Remote team to bring their talents, experiences and culture to the table to help us build the best-in-class HR platform.

If you are energetic, curious, motivated and ambitious, be part of our world. Apply now and define the future of work!

What this job can offer you

This is an exciting time to join Remote and make a personal difference in the global payroll space as our Senior Product Manager, Payroll. You will be tasked with developing a deep understanding of our customer's (external and internal) needs and pain points and working with cross-functional teams to design and implement solutions that provide an exceptional payroll experience. This includes being a leader in your development team and beyond, working with internal experts across multiple disciplines (operations, compliance, sales, product marketing etc.) to build a scalable payroll platform for 80+ markets around the world.

What you bring

• Experience as a senior product manager working in a multi-product, high-growth scale-up company.
• Proficiency in Cursor and/or Claude Code is required. You must be able to autonomously build, debug, and ship functional code/prototypes, not just write specs.
• Strong understanding of end-to-end payroll processes and HR functions. Hands-on experience building payroll software and systems is preferred.
• Experience launching products or features that leveraged AI.
• Great judgment-making strategic (what to prioritize) and tactical (feature scope) decisions.
• Data-driven product manager with experience setting and tracking goals to achieve results
• Outstanding communication and collaboration skills, including across different departments (e.g. operations, business, sales, finance, etc.) to ensure that we are satisfying critical customer, business and operational requirements
• Business-level proficiency in writing and speaking English
• Excellent skills & track record in stakeholder management
• ‘Can do’ attitude - digging into problems and working collaboratively with speed and efficiency on solutions

Key Responsibilities

• Help build the future of payroll with senior product leaders at Remote
  • Lead efforts across engineering, design, and operations to launch high-impact projects
• Deliver impactful outcomes that set Remote apart
  • Work together with engineers, designers and operational counterparts to build elegant solutions to complex problems
  • Shape and deliver improvements in a focused area of our product
  • Help advance key KPIs related to your team’s goals
• Communicate and collaborate internally and externally
  • Collaborate with partner teams (e.g. operations) to connect your team’s roadmap to stakeholder needs
  • Lead by example on asynchronous workflows and transparency
• Use AI tools to 10x productivity, decision-making, and workflow efficiency

Practicals

• You'll report to: Senior Group Product Manager
• Team: Product
• Location: For this position we welcome everyone to apply, but we will prioritize applications from locations within UTC - + 4
• Start date: As soon as possible

Application process

1. Interview with recruiter
2. Interview with future manager
3. Deep Dive Exercise
4. Interview with Engineering and Design
5. Bar Raiser Interview
6. VP Interview
7. Prior employment verification check

 

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.

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.

The annual salary range for this full-time position is

$54,900—$154,400 USD

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
• flexible paid time off
• 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.

Not only do we encourage folks from all ethnic groups, genders, sexuality, age, abilities, disability status and any other under-represented group to apply, but we prioritize a sense of belonging. We have 4 ERGs (Women, Disability, Queer, Minorities in Tech) who meet regularly with the People team. During your interviews and beyond, we ask & encourage anybody who needs an accommodation to request one from their recruiter.

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.

At Remote, we embrace AI as a valuable tool while prioritizing human creativity and authenticity. We look forward to meeting candidates who balance innovation with genuine expertise and experience. To learn more about Remote's AI guidelines check see here. 

Please note we accept applications on an ongoing basis.