Senior Product Manager, APIsPosted today$60K–$169K
The opportunity
This is an exciting time to join Remote as a Senior Product Manager, Payroll , an IC role for someone with genuinely high technical depth — trading management scope for depth. You'll partner with your Engineering Team Lead and Staff Engineers on architecture and technical…
What you'll do
Technical Direction: Partner with the Engineering Team Lead and Staff Engineers on architecture, design quality, and technical direction. Form independent, well-reasoned technical opinions and hold your own in design reviews as a peer.
Build to Learn: Prototype and write code to de-risk ideas, answer open questions, or ship small pieces yourself rather than defaulting to a meeting.
API & Integration Quality: Own products where APIs are the product surface. Design contracts, guide versioning and backwards compatibility, and own the developer experience for teams and systems integrating with your product.
Root Cause Problem-Solving: Sit with the specialists and ops teams doing the manual work, observe real workflows, and prioritize based on where the pain actually is. When systems disagree, fix the underlying cause rather than building a better reconciliation report.
End-to-End Ownership: Own adoption and hypercare, not just delivery — including whether what you shipped is actually being used months later.
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with payroll and tax experts on research and requirements, convene across teams, and onboard others into context generously.
What they're looking for
- Clear Communication: Document decisions and reasoning in writing (specs, Looms, proposals) so your thinking is inspectable and can be challenged.
- 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.
- Experience as product manager in a high-growth company
- Experience working in payroll, HR, benefits, fintech, or similar