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New-Product Benefits Financial Leader

Justworks, Inc.
New York City, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 7 Sept 2023
💰 $252,000/yr($210,000/yr$252,000/yr)

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.

Our Values

If this sounds like you, you’ll fit right in.

Who You Are

You are equal parts entrepreneur, servant leader, and expert on financial services.  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 to deliver in an agile way the next generation of employer sponsored financial benefits.

In this role you will build a small, tight-knit team of program managers, engineers, and designers tasked with delivering a new employer sponsored financial benefit. You will also be expected to 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 off of turning ambiguous and evolving market requirements into tangible products
  • Thinks in terms of outcomes rather than outputs

We’d love to hear from you!

Your Success Profile

What You Will Work On

  • Build, deliver and scale Justworks’ newest employer-sponsored financial benefit
  • Lead all aspects of development while balancing bold long-term vision with tangible short-term goals and milestones
  • Take an idea for a new product and bring it to life, prioritizing speed, learning, and iteration over perfection
  • Manage a delivery team, including product managers, designers, and engineers, to bring the vision of the product to life
  • Bring your solutions to market through ownership of the full product lifecycle: problem identification, solution design, spec, implementation and validation
  • Establish systems to optimize for scale, efficiency, and reliability over time
  • Gather requirements from internal and external stakeholders and available data - including Voice of Customer data, external market data - specifically financial benefits data, build for known customer needs, continuously prioritize needs of customers and internal stakeholders, and reassess as needed
  • Partner with teams across the business to create a cross-functional and collaborative development process specific to your domain
  • Communicate priorities across the company, using evidence-based decision making
  • Be a passionate believer in the product and evangelize it internally and externally
  • Develop and grow a high-performing, cross-functional team, aligned around Justworks’ mission and business goals
  • Cultivate an environment where people can do their best work, develop deep subject matter expertise, and grow their leadership skills
  • Perform other related duties as assigned

How You Will Do Your Work

As a Financial Benefits Leader, 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:

  • Business Insight - applying knowledge of business and the marketplace to advance the organization’s goals.
  • Strategic Mindset - anticipates future trends and implications accurately; articulates credible pictures and visions of possibilities that will create sustainable value.
  • Plans and Aligns - breaks down objectives into appropriate initiatives and actions; stages activities with relevant milestones and schedules.
  • Initiative and Motivation - identifying what needs to be done and doing it before being asked or before the situation requires it.
  • Influence and Leadership - Fostering a community of knowledge-sharing, collaboration, mentorship, and forward-thinking.

In addition, a

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