Hourly

Core Payroll Platform Product Manager

Hourly

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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Job Level

SeniorLead

Tech Stack

Ruby on Rails

About the role

  • As the Core Payroll Platform Product Manager at Hourly, you will own the strategy,
  • architecture, and execution of the foundational systems that power payroll across our
  • platform.
  • This includes the end-to-end payroll engine—earnings calculations, deductions, tax
  • handling, payments infrastructure, and compliance workflows. You will be responsible for
  • building a scalable, reliable, and flexible payroll backbone that supports all current and
  • future products.
  • This role requires deep systems thinking, strong technical fluency, and a high bar for
  • accuracy and compliance, as you will be responsible for the most critical infrastructure in
  • the company.
  • What You’ll Do
  • Product Strategy & Platform Ownership
  • - Define and drive the roadmap for Hourly’s core payroll platform
  • - Build a flexible, extensible payroll architecture that supports multiple products, states, and use cases
  • - Identify opportunities to unify and standardize payroll flows across jurisdictions
  • - Own the long-term scalability, reliability, and performance of the payroll engine
  • Platform Development & Execution
  • - Tax calculation and filings, leveraging industry partners for tax compliance
  • - Payment orchestration (ACH, real-time payments, virtual accounts)
  • - Ledgering and reconciliation
  • - Partner with Engineering to design robust, fault-tolerant systems
  • - Ensure auditability, traceability, and financial accuracy across all payroll operations
  • - Collaborate with banking partners to implement payments at scale, including building and supporting new payment rails such as real-time payments (RTP)
  • **Compliance & Infrastructure
  • - Work closely with Compliance, Legal, and Finance to ensure adherence to federal, state, and local regulations
  • - Design systems that abstract regulatory complexity while maintaining flexibility
  • - Support expansion into new states and jurisdictions
  • - Cross-Functional Leadership
  • - Serve as the central point of alignment between Engineering, Operations, Compliance, and GTM teams
  • - Partner with customer-facing teams to translate platform capabilities into customer value
  • - Support strategic initiatives such as embedded finance and banking integrations
  • Customer & Business Impact
  • - Improve payroll accuracy, reduce processing errors, and eliminate manual reconciliation
  • - Drive automation and operational efficiency across the platform
  • - Enable faster product launches by building reusable platform components

Requirements

  • Experience
  • - 10+ years of product management experience
  • - At least 5 years focused specifically on payroll products or payroll infrastructure
  • - Proven experience building and scaling complex, mission-critical financial or payroll systems
  • - Experience working with banking partners, payments infrastructure, or embedded finance (strongly preferred)
  • Skills
  • - Strong technical acumen—you can work closely with engineers on system design and tradeoffs
  • - Deep analytical thinking with a focus on correctness and edge cases
  • - Ability to manage complex, interdependent systems
  • - Excellent communication and stakeholder alignment skills
  • Mindset
  • - Extreme ownership—you operate as the owner of the core system
  • - Precision-driven with a strong bias toward accuracy and reliability
  • - Comfortable operating in ambiguity while building long-term foundations
  • - Customer-focused, with an appreciation for both end-user and internal platform needs
Benefits
  • - Health & Wellness: Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance.
  • - Future Planning: 401(k) retirement plan.
  • - Flexibility: Unlimited Time Off (PTO) and 100% remote work environment.
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Hard Skills & Tools
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Soft Skills
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