Lead Product Manager

The role

You will own the vision, strategy, and outcomes for a critical area of the Employer of Record product. You will shape customer-facing experiences, internal tools, and operational workflows to help companies employ talent globally.

What you will do

• Own the product vision, strategy, prioritization, and measurable outcomes for an EOR sub-domain.
• Build a systems-level view of customer journeys, internal workflows, policy constraints, data flows, and exceptions.
• Lead direct customer and operational discovery.
• Translate strategy into outcome-based roadmaps with clear decisions, learning plans, and success measures.
• Work with Operations and AI Engineers to improve scalability, exception handling, service quality, and cost-to-serve.
• Partner with Engineering and Design from discovery through delivery.
• Align senior stakeholders across Legal, Compliance, Finance, Operations, and Go-to-Market.
• Contribute repeatable product practices to the Product organization.

Required qualifications

• 5+ years in Product Management, including experience owning a complex product area end-to-end.
• 3+ years in HR tech, payroll, benefits, hiring, compliance, or another regulated or operationally complex B2B domain.
• Strong systems thinking.
• Proven first-principles thinking.
• Strategic judgment and independence.
• Deep direct-customer discovery.
• Ability to constructively challenge, persuade, and align senior stakeholders.
• Clear executive communication with evidence of measurable impact.
• A reliable home internet connection.
• Fluency in both written and spoken English.
• High standards for quality, ethics, privacy, and compliance in products.

Nice to have

• EOR, payroll, HR technology, benefits, compliance, fintech, healthcare, logistics, or another regulated and operationally complex domain.
• Scaling products or workflows across countries, customers, teams, or markets.
• Hands-on experience prototyping with AI tools or shipping responsible AI- or automation-enabled product experiences.
• Fully distributed and multicultural working experience.

Benefits

• Work from anywhere
• 40 days off per year (including holidays and vacation), or more if required by your country
• Mental health support via Plumm
• Monthly wellbeing allowance in ThanksBen wallet
• Flexible parental leave: at least three months paid leave with job protection for up to 12 months or as required locally
• WFH stipend for laptop and home office equipment

About the company

Oyster is a global employment platform that lets companies hire, pay, and care for brilliant people anywhere. It is a B Corp-certified company distributed across 60+ countries.