WHO WE ARE

We are a modern, embedded payroll provider that helps empower companies to build their own unique payroll service. On top of our easy-to-use payroll API, we are pioneering an all-inclusive tax engine to democratize a broken and cumbersome process providing accessibility to small, medium, and large businesses and helping Americans get paid.

Backed by over $14 million in funding by top investors such as Y Combinator, Spark Capital (Marqeta, Coinbase, Affirm), and Robinhood's Founder; Vlad Tenev we are projected to be a forerunner in embedded payroll with an industry amassing billions of dollars in untapped revenue.

Our mission is to empower companies to become their own fintech company using our simple, seamless, and forward-thinking payroll technology and we'd love to learn more about you and how you could be a fit for our growing team!

ABOUT THE ROLE

We are looking for our second product hire. As part of the founding Product team, you will manage 4 different product lines within our payroll infrastructure and will help lay down the foundations for the product team to grow and scale. You will be an active participant in discussions with stakeholders, engineering, and design to help ship beautiful products that our users love. If you are on board for a large scope product role with the ability to wear many hats and define an amazing fin-tech product, this may be the role for you!

The salary for this role is between $110-150k per year and the role is hybrid working in San Francisco 2x a week.

SOME THINGS YOU MAY BE WORKING ON

  • Work on all our current products within Tax, Payments, Components, and Services and brainstorm with stakeholders and engineering for new features and products to delight our customers
  • Write and maintain user stories per changing product and engineering requirements
  • Liaise between various teams to manage project scope
  • Maintain accurate, up to date internal documentation and release notes
  • You will partner in product discovery and lead product delivery to ensure the final, shipped product matches the expectations of the customer
  • You will be the swiss army knife of product managers; owning a large product scope rather than a small slice which means you will be the glue in helping things run smoothly and getting things done on time.
  • Liaise between various teams to manage project scope, reporting on project statuses and key metrics
  • Set strategy for the product team this year and beyond!

YOU HAVE

  • 2-4 years experience as a Product Manager preferably at a start-up
  • Experience overseeing roadmap strategy and definition for a B2B related product
  • Skilled at product strategy and road mapping
  • You have experience with task and project management as well as some analytics tools
  • Adept at white-boarding and have an ability to conduct customer and user surveys to optimize the current and future product roadmap
  • A keen sense for prioritization and are flexible to iterate on changing business requirements
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills and you are an adept partner to stakeholders, engineers, designers and other staff members

NICE-TO-HAVE

  • Experience working in: finance, information systems, or an API ecosystem
  • Customer-driven product development experience, you think about the problem first and question the โ€˜whyโ€™ behind how we build our products
  • Interest in payroll, HR, and the fin-tech landscape

OUR CULTURE

We are a tight-knit, inclusive community that is into: music ๐ŸŽต, cocktails ๐Ÿน, pets ๐Ÿˆ๐Ÿ•, ping-pong ๐Ÿ“ and above all else ~ high quality espresso โ˜• but more importantly we value championing for our staff to bring their authentic true selves to work and aim to provide a fun and collaborative work environment for everyone! 

OUR BENEFITS

  • ๐Ÿฉบ  100% health coverage premium paid by the company; vision, dental
  • ๐Ÿ’ธ Competitive salary and equity for all employees
  • ๐Ÿ’ณ Monthly benefits stipend to use for lunch, commuting, and other essentials
  • ๐Ÿ‘ฉ๐Ÿฝโ€๐Ÿ’ป At-home office setup stipend
  • ๐Ÿ“ธ Free professional headshot for your LinkedIn
  • ๐Ÿฟ ๐Ÿน Free snacks and drinks and Friday happy hours
  • ๐Ÿฆ“  Awesome Swag

OUR INTERVIEW PROCESS

This is our process for most of our roles, but sometimes stages are subject to change from time to time, but we will definitely notify you of the change ahead of time.

Step 1: Chat with our recruiter or hiring manager

Step 2: Chat with one of our founders

Step 3: Take-Home Assignment

Step 4: Presentation/Final Interview with the team

After a few days to 1 week, we will get back to you with a decision

 

Our company (Puzzl Group, aka Zeal) is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

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