Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Payscale is a compensation intelligence company that combines market data with AI-powered technology to help organizations make smarter pay decisions. The Product Manager II will own a core part of the benchmarking solutions product, define its roadmap, validate customer needs, prioritize features, and collaborate with engineering, data science, design, and customers to deliver impactful solutions.
Responsibilities
- Strategy and Ownership: Own the strategy and backlog for your feature set, understanding customer problems and business priorities to build a clear, prioritized plan that drives outcomes
- AI-Assisted Development and Prototyping: Rapidly prototype and validate product concepts using AI-assisted tools, moving from idea to proof of concept faster than a traditional spec-first approach. Partner with engineering to shape prototypes into production-ready features
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with engineering, data science, and design to scope work, understand problems, and manage a prioritized backlog. Step in as Product Owner for scrum teams when needed
- Validation and Prioritization: Understand customer needs through research and feedback, validate assumptions, and prioritize stories and features based on customer and business impact
- Customer Engagement: Work directly with customers to share roadmaps, gather feedback, and understand how your features solve their problems
- Stakeholder Communication: Align stakeholders on priorities and progress, and own communication around feature plans and delivery so decisions stay clear and aligned
- Market and Competitive Awareness: Stay current on competitive positioning and feature sets, and use that knowledge to inform your roadmap decisions
- Launch and Impact: Define success metrics, champion feature adoption, showcase new capabilities, and partner with product marketing to bring your work to market and maximize impact
Skills
- • 2–5 years of product management experience for B2B business models, ideally in SaaS
- • Demonstrated track record scoping and shipping features or small product initiatives that produced clear user and business outcomes
- • Hands-on experience using AI-assisted development or prototyping tools (for example, Claude, Cursor, or v0) to build and test product concepts quickly
- • Strong technical fluency and the ability to communicate effectively with engineers and architects
- • Superior project management skills and ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced environment
- • Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to clearly articulate ideas and business cases to various audiences
- • Deep customer empathy and the ability to research and understand customer pain points and needs
- • Analytical mindset with strong problem-solving skills
- Payscale has employees across the US, Canada, UK, The Philippines and Romania however we are currently unable to hire in the Quebec Province, Northern Ireland, and Hawaii
- • Experience with HR technology is a plus
Benefits
- Remote-first work model with flexibility to work from home, in company-paid co-working spaces, or a combination of both
- Monthly company All Hands meetings
- Regular opportunities for executive leadership exposure through things like AMAs
- Access to continued learning & development opportunities
- Continuous feedback culture to drive performance and career growth
- Employee Resource Groups
- Company sponsored volunteer hours
- Flexible paid time off
- 14 Paid Company Holidays, including 2 floating holidays
- Comprehensive benefits plan including medical, dental, life, vision, disability, and life insurance covered up to 100% by Payscale
- Unlimited infertility coverage benefits through medical plans
- Additional supplemental health benefits offered to you and your family
- 401(k) retirement program with a fully vested immediate company match
- 16 weeks of paid parental leave for birthing and non-birthing parents
- Health Savings Account (HSA) options and company contributions each pay period
- Flexible Spending Account (FSA) options for pre-tax employee allocations
- Annual remote work stipend to be used on wellness or home office equipment
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