About this position
***IN OFFICE 4-5x A WEEK IN NYC***
Our client is seeking a Director of Product to own the end-to-end product experience at a fast-growing technology company operating at the intersection of fintech, HR technology, and AI . This is a player-coach role reporting directly to the CEO. You will shape product strategy alongside senior leadership, lead and grow a combined product and design organization, and remain hands-on enough to prototype, provide thoughtful critique, and help drive products from concept through launch.
What You’ll Do
- Own the product vision and roadmap across a suite of workforce, payroll, benefits, and financial products, ensuring they come together as a seamless experience
- Establish a high bar for product quality and design, ensuring every interaction, workflow, and piece of content reflects strong product judgment
- Define how users interact with AI-powered and agentic software , creating experiences that feel intuitive, transparent, trustworthy, and genuinely useful
- Embrace AI-native product development by rapidly prototyping concepts, testing with customers, incorporating feedback, and accelerating the path from idea to launch
- Lead, hire, mentor, and develop a high-performing product and design organization, fostering strong collaboration between product, design, and engineering
- Build strong customer feedback loops across both growing businesses and larger enterprise organizations, translating customer needs into meaningful product improvements
- Partner closely with engineering on prioritization, technical tradeoffs, product quality, and execution
- Balance product delight with accuracy and reliability, particularly across complex workflows involving compliance, taxation, financial transactions, and other high-stakes requirements
- Help shape the broader company narrative, with product strategy and execution contributing to sales, fundraising, customer conversations, and market positioning
What We’re Looking For
- 5+ years of product management experience , including 2+ years leading product teams , with a track record of shipping complex B2B, fintech, SaaS, or similarly sophisticated products
- Strong product and design fluency—you can challenge a product requirements document while also providing meaningful feedback on user experience and visual design
- Exceptional product taste and a demonstrated ability to create experiences that stand out, even within traditionally complex or unglamorous categories
- An AI-native mindset with hands-on experience using modern AI tools to prototype, build, test, or improve products
- Strong perspective on how to make LLM-powered and agentic experiences intuitive, reliable, transparent, and valuable rather than gimmicky
- Experience in fintech, payroll, HR technology, payments, financial services, or another regulated/correctness-critical industry is highly desirable
- Comfortable operating in ambiguous, fast-moving environments with significant ownership and accountability
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to work effectively with executives, founders, customers, engineers, and other stakeholders
- A proven ability to identify, hire, mentor, and develop high-caliber product and design talent
Nice to Have
- Early-stage or founding product/design experience
- Experience building global products, including localization, multi-country compliance, or cross-border financial workflows
- Experience serving both SMB and enterprise customer segments
- Experience scaling products through periods of rapid growth and organizational change
Why Join
Join a high-growth technology company building the next generation of AI-powered workforce and financial solutions . You’ll have significant ownership over the product vision and the opportunity to shape how businesses manage complex workforce and financial operations through a modern, intelligent software experience.
Location
New York .
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How to apply
Review the vacancy and complete the application on the employer or recruitment partner’s website. Requisition ID: WJ-3162995992.