Senior Product Manager, Partnerships

About the role

The Partnerships team's mission is to build the integrations and partner ecosystem that drives retention and growth for Justworks' core customer segment. We connect small and mid-size businesses to the tools they depend on, and get Justworks in front of the right buyers at the right moment through the integrations our customers need, the platform that makes those integrations possible, and the strategic partnerships that expand our distribution.

What You’ll Work On

As a Senior Product Manager at Justworks, you'll play a high-impact role driving the roadmap of one or more pods focused on Partnerships. The work spans platform infrastructure, product integrations, and distribution, and the interesting work is in how they connect. You'll focus on scoping and prioritizing new initiatives with research-backed case development and work through the complete product development lifecycle to successful delivery. A meaningful part of this role is working directly with revenue and commercial stakeholders. You'll need to bring data-backed points of view into those conversations, push back when warranted, and translate partner and product decisions into business impact.

How You Will Do Your Work

As a Senior 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.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years of product management experience in a modern technology business.
• A comprehensive understanding of the craft of Product Management and demonstrated success in mastering the PDLC.
• Experience leading complex, cross-team initiatives from ideation to execution.
• Comfortable engaging with technical concepts and working closely with engineering partners
• Experience building new products (0 to 1) as well as a track record of shipping continuous product improvements to an existing product portfolio at-scale.
• Strong problem-solving skills, capable of breaking down complex problems for team execution against business needs.
• Deep user empathy and a high bar for user experience.
• Strong communication skills for effectively conveying product-related matters, including changes in scope or strategic direction.
• Experience at high-growth companies is preferred, in a founder or GM capacity is a plus.
• Experience building products in a highly regulated domain (e.g. fintech or healthcare) is a plus.