Lead Product Manager

Job description

✨ ONE PLATFORM, A WHOLE WORLD OF OPPORTUNITY The best jobs have always clustered in a handful of the world's wealthiest cities. But talent is everywhere. Oyster set out to close that gap - building a global employment platform that lets companies hire, pay, and care for brilliant people anywhere. We're proof that a high-performing culture doesn't need an office. Distributed across 60+ countries since 2020, we've built something the industry keeps noticing: - Ranked #10 of 250 on TIME and Statista's 2026 list of America's Top WorkTech Companies https://www.oysterhr.com/library/oyster-hr-named-10-of-americas-top-worktech-companies-of-2026-by-time - Named one of America's Greatest Startup Workplaces 2026 https://www.oysterhr.com/library/oyster-2026-newsweek-award by Newsweek - A G2 Spring 2026 Leader https://www.oysterhr.com/library/oyster-named-best-roi-for-any-global-employment-platform-for-g2-spring-2026 across Employer of Record, Global Employment, Multi-country Payroll, and HR Compliance - The only B Corp-certified global employment platform ~ independently verified since 2023 Two of those rankings measured our business impact from the outside. One measured how our own people feel about working here. They landed in the same place ~ because at Oyster, culture and performance aren't separate conversations. They're the same one. And we're just getting started. If you want to do the best work of your career alongside people who care as much as you do, we'd love for you to apply. ONE OPPORTUNITY, TWO PRODUCT DOMAINS Location: While this position is posted in a specific location, all of Oyster's positions are fully remote, you can work from home, forever. To create the best experience for our new hire, this role requires you to be based within UTC +3 to UTC -5. We're hiring two Lead Product Managers with the same scope, level, and expectations, supporting two different product domains: Hire & Onboard and Benefits. By applying to this role, you'll be considered for either opportunity. Throughout the interview process, we'll introduce you to both domains, discuss where your experience and interests align best, and determine together which role is the strongest mutual fit. As a Lead Product Manager, you will own the product vision, strategy, and execution for a critical area of Oyster's platform. Whether focused on Hire & Onboard or Benefits, you'll lead customer-facing experiences, internal tools, and operational workflows that help companies employ talent globally with confidence, compliance, and simplicity. You are an AI-first product thinker, comfortable applying automation and AI to solve meaningful customer and operational challenges. You bring strong product judgment, a structured approach to problem-solving, and the ability to balance user needs, regulatory complexity, and business outcomes. In this role, you'll operate at the intersection of product strategy, execution, and cross-functional leadership. You'll drive complex initiatives in partnership with Engineering, Design, Legal, Compliance, Finance, Operations, and Go-to-Market teams. Strong ownership, clear communication, and the ability to build alignment across diverse stakeholders are essential to success. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES - Own the product vision and strategy for either the Hire & Onboard or Benefits domain, aligned with company goals and customer outcomes. - Lead discovery and prioritisation across hiring and onboarding problems, balancing new features, regulatory needs, tech debt, and operational improvements. - Translate strategy into execution, defining clear roadmaps, outcomes, and success metrics. - Partner closely with Engineering and Design to deliver high-quality, scalable solutions with strong user experience. - Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders including Operations, Legal/Compliance and Go-to-Market to ensure feasibility and alignment. - Represent the Hire & Onboard or Benefits domain in senior stakeholder forums, clearly communicating trade-offs, progress, risks, and impact. - Identify and evaluate opportunities to leverage AI and automation to improve hiring and onboarding outcomes, efficiency, and decision-making. - Use data and insights (quantitative and qualitative) to inform decisions, measure impact, and continuously improve outcomes. - Ensure regulatory and compliance requirements are embedded into product development without compromising usability or speed. - Continuously improve product processes, contributing to best practices across the wider Product organisation. CORE REQUIREMENTS - 5+ years of experience in Product Management, with a strong track record of owning complex product areas end-to-end and driving measurable business and customer outcomes. - 3+ years of experience in HR tech, hiring, onboarding, benefits, payroll, compliance, or B2B SaaS, with a solid understanding of regulated or operationally complex domains. - Strong product discovery and problem-framing skills, with the ability to deeply understand customer pain points, validate assumptions, and translate insights into impactful product solutions. - You have a demonstrable capability for original thinking, and have great examples of how you have understood and solved a problem from first principles. - You are a builder, and can demonstrate you have actively worked with AI-prototyping tools and used them to gain valuable feedback from users - Hands-on experience building or iterating on AI-powered and automation-driven features, including defining use cases, evaluating trade-offs, and measuring real-world impact. - Highly data-driven, comfortable using qualitative and quantitative insights to inform prioritisation, measure success, and continuously improve outcomes. - Experience working in multinational, cross-functional environments, collaborating effectively across Engineering, Design, Legal, Compliance, Operations, and Go-To-Market teams. - Comfortable operating in ambiguity, with a proactive, ownership-driven mindset and the ability to bring clarity and structure to complex or evolving problem spaces. - Strong standards for quality, ethics, and transparency, particularly when building products that impact people, employment, and compliance. - Proven experience in scale-up or high-growth environments, with the ability to balance speed, quality, and long-term sustainability. You’ll also need - A reliable home internet connection (or be able to get one) - Fluent English language skills HOW WE WORK TOGETHER AT OYSTER Our values guide the work we do, the decisions we make, and the culture that makes Oyster what it is. We make it happen—progress is our default setting. We drive change, we build and give trust, and we move as one united team. Our mission is to create a more equal world of work: helping companies everywhere hire, pay, and care for talent anywhere. Everything we do ladders up to our mission. We embrace asynchronous, collaborative work and share how we operate in the Oyster Public HQ https://oysterhr.notion.site/Welcome-to-The-Reef-Oyster-s-Open-Source-Employee-Guide-fc482e3f107c4afd8c85ed217f1d0c1d so other global teams can learn from us. HOW YOU WORK With diverse locations, cultures, and needs, we created How YOU Work; https://oysterhr.notion.site/How-YOU-work-ac16c1932e314ffd8cb693e332458395 a program supporting your whole human experience at Oyster: - Work from anywhere: Oyster has no borders or HQ. As long as work is timely, your team is supported, and you're authorized to work where you live, you can work from anywhere. - Paid time off: Enjoy 40 days off per year (including holidays and vacation), or more if required by your country. - Mental health support: Access Plumm https://oysterhr.notion.site/Plumm-3b5e7e70dec6428e975f68f25972cfb7, our mental well-being service. - Wellbeing allowance: Each month, receive a wellbeing allowance in your ThanksBen wallet to spend on a wide range of options. - Flexible parental leave: All new parents are eligible for at least three months’ paid leave, with job protection for up to 12 months or as required locally. - WFH stipend: Receive a stipend for your laptop and home office equipment to get you set up quickly. ✨ THE BEST JOBS SHOULD BE AVAILABLE TO EVERYONE We embrace diverse perspectives and intentionally build our product and company with an inclusive, global mindset. We encourage you to apply, even if you don’t meet every criterion, and are committed to a trust-based, thriving environment. Oyster is committed to ensuring equal opportunity of employment for qualified persons with disabilities and actively fosters an inclusive work environment. If you require reasonable accommodations throughout the recruiting process, please email jobs@oysterhr.com with the subject line: Interview Accommodations. Our available positions are on our careers page. Our team will only contact you from an @oysterhr.com email, and we will never ask for money as part of an interview process or job offer. If you receive a suspicious email about Oyster jobs or are directed to a site other than www.oysterhr.com/careers http://www.oysterhr.com/careers, please report it via our Compliance and Ethics Helpline https://faceup.com/c/8tpzyyye.