Papaya Global is a rapidly growing, award-winning B2B tech unicorn with an ambitious mission to revolutionize the payroll & payments industry. With over $400M raised from multiple tier-one investors, our innovative technology provides a comprehensive solution for managing global workforces, encompassing everything from hiring and onboarding to managing and paying employees in over 160 countries.
We are seeking a Product Manager Lead who will be responsible for leading a team of product managers, product planning, delivery, and marketing throughout the product lifecycle.
You will:
- Maximize clarity by bringing a data-driven mindset to setting goals and milestones.
- Conceptualize and analyze different parts of our infrastructure and how they interrelate.
- Inspire the company by creating bold, game-changing ideas and delivering them across a set of customer problems.
- Elicit non-obvious customer needs, synthesize research to gain a deep understanding and narrow definition of a problem.
- Co-create with teammates to deliver high-quality results. Speak and write with clarity and comfort in deep technical discussions with engineers about the pros and cons of different approaches.
- Lead and mentor a team of product managers, driving alignment, execution quality, and professional growth across the product organization.
- Leverage AI-driven tools and methodologies to improve product planning, prioritization, data analysis, and decision-making across multiple product domains.
- Use AI capabilities to enhance synthesis of customer insights, market research, and technical complexity into clear product direction and strategy.
- Drive adoption of AI-assisted workflows within the product organization to improve efficiency, experimentation velocity, and product quality.
- 7+ years of experience as Product Manager or Technical Product Manager at world-class SaaS companies with significant growth and best-in-class product standards.
- 2+ years of experience leading product management teams.
- Product experience in building and launching highly scalable and reliable services is a plus.
- High bar across all dimensions—from personal contributions to team performance to product quality.
- Strong bias toward action, collaboration, and clear communication with a focus on simplification of complex topics.
- Hands-on, execution-oriented mindset with willingness to deep dive into technical and product challenges.
- Customer-centric mindset with proven ability to solve complex product problems and drive customer satisfaction.
- BA/BS in Computer Science or related field.
- Strong technical understanding from high-level architecture down to system-level considerations.
- Proven ability to leverage and implement AI tools in product leadership, including building AI-enabled workflows for strategy, prioritization, data-driven decision-making, and cross-functional execution, as well as driving adoption of AI across product processes at scale.
Skills Required
- 3+ years of experience in Product Marketing, Product, FinTech, or a similar role.
- Strong content writing and storytelling skills, with the ability to simplify complex topics.
- Proven experience with persona-based messaging and positioning.
- Proven ability to leverage AI tools to enhance product marketing workflows, including content creation, video production, research, and messaging optimization.
- Familiarity with HCM, Payroll, Payments, or related B2B SaaS domains.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work cross-functionally.
- High attention to detail and quality, paired with a hands-on, execution-focused mindset.
- Confidence presenting ideas, messaging, and content to internal stakeholders.
- Native English.
What We Do
Imagine controlling all your global payroll and payments from a single place, supported by certified experts who keep you compliant in every country, even when laws change. No more juggling third parties. No more foreign bank accounts. No more repetitive manual work. Finally, there’s one platform that gives you total control of your global operations, from creating local contracts automatically to paying workers in the local currency of 160+ countries. It’s called Papaya Global, and we’d love to show it to you. Papaya Global: How the world gets paid
