Product Manager - Payroll

remotepeople • APAC or China (Remote)

No Relocation

Posted: September 14, 2026

Responsibilities

Own the product strategy and roadmap for your area, from problem definition through delivery and iteration
Lead discovery with Payroll, Operations, and partner teams, ensuring we solve manual bottlenecks, avoid calculation errors and create trust with our customers
Partner with engineering and design as a true triad, facilitating problem discovery and solution design as a team
Improve how payroll calculation issues, reporting gaps, and partner connectivity problems are surfaced and resolved, reducing escalations and rework for Ops and Payroll teams
Own the payroll calculation and reporting layer; ensure outputs are accurate, clear and understandable
Build and maintain our country-specific payroll and compliance knowledge base, keeping it accurate as rules change
Maintain robust partner connectivity across payroll partners, ensuring data flows correctly and integrations don’t break downstream reporting

Requirements

4+ years in product, with experience owning complex B2B SaaS or HR-tech/fintech products: payroll, compliance, integrations, or financial operations
Strong product fundamentals. You manage your product, not your backlog.
Excellent stakeholder management skills. You cross bridges without burning them.
You practice concise communication. No corporate slop. A 5 year old can explain your PRDs to your engineering team.
You’ve worked on platform-level products with real system complexity: data models, integrations, cross-service dependencies and you know how to reason about trade-offs across product, operations, and engineering
Strong operational instinct: you understand how payroll accuracy, reporting reliability, and partner connectivity connect to customer trust
You define success metrics before scoping and revisit them when things aren’t moving
Comfortable operating in ambiguous, cross-functional environments — you drive clarity rather than waiting for it
You’ve worked in a high-trust, autonomous team structure; you need context, access to customers, and clear business goals, not a feature list
You know how to leverage AI as a force multiplier without outsourcing your judgement
Hands-on experience with payroll partner integrations or global compliance data is advantageous