Who We Are
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.
Who You Are
As a senior level product manager, you have a minimum of 8 years of experience in product management, with at least 5 years building data platforms within a data discipline.You are well-versed on the data landscape with deep understanding of the various developer disciplines (engineering, ML, data science etc.) and have the real know-how to take a forward looking concept and bring it into reality, making it tangible and concrete for a scaling organization. You are empathetic and can put yourself in the shoes of the customer to identify opportunities to innovate and deliver solutions that improve the way our customers work.
As a Group Product Manager, Data Services, you will drive the strategic direction of our data stack, playing a pivotal role in enabling platform features that drive developer velocity, innovation and self-service. You’ll partner with our engineering leads to promote a shared vision of the future and motivate teams towards building solutions, with a deep understanding of the why and the what, inspiring their ownership of the how. You’ll promote short-term goals with a test-and-learn mindset, without compromising long-term strategy.
Within the Justworks Data Services team, you’ll find a highly-collaborative, diverse group of individuals motivated to empower Justworkers to work fearlessly and responsibly with data. We are committed to growing our impact in the best interest of our customers and evolving how we work together in the best interest of our people & company. Come build the future with us!
Your Success Profile
What You Will Work On
- Refine the vision and strategy for our core Data/ML platform, inclusive of data ingestion, processing and serving, pipelines, data governance and security compliances, data analytics and visualization tooling, feature stores and data warehouse that powers our various teams for experimentation, operational excellence, and high resolution insights.
- Build deep institutional and marketplace knowledge of the myriad solutions within the modern data stack landscape
- Help to define and socialize a platform vision and strategy with stakeholders and direct working team
- Bring your solutions to market through ownership of the full product lifecycle: problem identification, solution design, spec, implementation and validation
- Create frameworks for your cross-functional team to prioritize and execute against capabilities, end-user features and internal tools - balancing customer needs with business goals.
- Define and measure OKRs that align with Justworks’ broader business objectives
- Continuously prioritize needs of customers and internal stakeholders, and reassess as needed
- Communicate product priorities to leadership and stakeholders across the organization, making the case with evidence-based decision making
- Develop, mentor, and lead a growing team of data pms
- Perform other related duties as assigned
How You Will Do Your Work
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.”
Qualifications
- Minimum of 8 years of experience in a platform product management capacity at a technology-driven organization
- Minimum of 5 years within a data discipline - data product management, data engineering and/or data science
- Minimum of 3 years of experience managing Product Managers
- Experience working on large scale platforms or infrastructures and building integrations
- Demonstrated track record of building and shipping successful products in an agile environment with demonstrated impact
- Experience owning complex products with large surface areas and lived experience making difficult prioritization and investment decisions
- Excellent communication skills, including presentation and writing skills
- Strong understanding of SaaS SMB products with the ability to learn the Justworks domains quickly (benefits, payments, health insurance, HR, etc)
- Proficiency in SQL; Python a nice to have
The base wage range for this position based in our New York City Office is targeted at $190,000.00 to $218,500.00 per year.
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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.
