Director of Product

***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.

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What You’ll DoOwn the product vision and roadmap across a suite of workforce, payroll, benefits, and financial products, ensuring they come together as a seamless experienceEstablish a high bar for product quality and design, ensuring every interaction, workflow, and piece of content reflects strong product judgmentDefine how users interact with AI-powered and agentic software, creating experiences that feel intuitive, transparent, trustworthy, and genuinely usefulEmbrace AI-native product development by rapidly prototyping concepts, testing with customers, incorporating feedback, and accelerating the path from idea to launchLead, hire, mentor, and develop a high-performing product and design organization, fostering strong collaboration between product, design, and engineeringBuild strong customer feedback loops across both growing businesses and larger enterprise organizations, translating customer needs into meaningful product improvementsPartner closely with engineering on prioritization, technical tradeoffs, product quality, and executionBalance product delight with accuracy and reliability, particularly across complex workflows involving compliance, taxation, financial transactions, and other high-stakes requirementsHelp shape the broader company narrative, with product strategy and execution contributing to sales, fundraising, customer conversations, and market positioning
What We’re Looking For5+ years of product management experience, including 2+ years leading product teams, with a track record of shipping complex B2B, fintech, SaaS, or similarly sophisticated productsStrong product and design fluency—you can challenge a product requirements document while also providing meaningful feedback on user experience and visual designExceptional product taste and a demonstrated ability to create experiences that stand out, even within traditionally complex or unglamorous categoriesAn AI-native mindset with hands-on experience using modern AI tools to prototype, build, test, or improve productsStrong perspective on how to make LLM-powered and agentic experiences intuitive, reliable, transparent, and valuable rather than gimmickyExperience in fintech, payroll, HR technology, payments, financial services, or another regulated/correctness-critical industry is highly desirableComfortable operating in ambiguous, fast-moving environments with significant ownership and accountabilityExcellent communication skills and the ability to work effectively with executives, founders, customers, engineers, and other stakeholdersA proven ability to identify, hire, mentor, and develop high-caliber product and design talentNice to HaveEarly-stage or founding product/design experienceExperience building global products, including localization, multi-country compliance, or cross-border financial workflowsExperience serving both SMB and enterprise customer segmentsExperience scaling products through periods of rapid growth and organizational change
Why JoinJoin a high-growth technology company building the next generation of AI-powered workforce and financial solutions. xzbcwsv 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.