Group Product Manager, New Products
Justworks, Inc.About the role
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
You easily envision what success looks like for a product. You know how to rally a team to make visions turn into reality. You are technologically savvy and are eager to leverage your skills towards a creative, entrepreneurial environment. The ideal candidate can develop a strong product and operations strategy, lead teams and deliver in an agile, iterative way.
As a Group Product Manager, you will be working collaboratively with a small, tight-knit team of program managers, engineers, and designers to deliver a new product and lay the foundation for the operations to support it. If you are someone who:
- Has a founder’s mindset who enjoys building and scaling a team, setting standards, being a mentor
- Places emphasis on a team finding the right answer ahead of any one person being the one who was right
- Thrives on ambiguity and getting things done
- Thinks in terms of outcomes rather than outputs
We’d love to hear from you!
Your Success Profile
What You Will Work On
- Take an idea for a new product and bring it to life, prioritizing speed, learning, and iteration over perfection
- Building for known customer needs; getting your hands dirty to make those needs known
- Grow into managing a team of other PMs as your vision for the product comes to life
- Gather requirements from internal and external stakeholders and available data - including Voice of Customer data, external market data, and existing Justworks data
- Build deep institutional and marketplace knowledge of the myriad integrated and point solutions
- Help to define and socialized a product vision and strategy with stakeholders and direct working team
- Partner with teams across the business to create a cross-functional and collaborative development process specific to your domain
- Bring your solutions to market through ownership of the full product lifecycle: problem identification, solution design, spec, implementation and validation
- Communicate priorities across the company, using evidence-based decision making
- Continuously prioritize needs of customers and internal stakeholders, and reassess as needed
- Communicate with the leadership team to determine roadmaps and prioritize work, and present to the CEO
- Be a passionate believer in the Justworks product and evangelize it internally and externally
- Maintain a positive attitude, even in the face of adversity
- Be able to say “No,” but back it up with reasoning
- Do what it takes to get the job done and motivate a team
- 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 beh
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