Wave HQ

Product Manager

• Own the end-to-end product vision and multi-year strategy for Payroll, aligning it to Wave’s broader Embedded Services roadmap.
• Identify and size new product opportunities: leveraging customer research, regulatory insights, and competitive analysis.
• Lead cross-functional teams to build platform capabilities that simplify onboarding, enhance compliance, improve reliability, and scale Payroll sustainably.
• Translate strategy into clear roadmaps, requirements, and measurable outcomes that accelerate product performance and revenue growth.
• Drive disciplined execution—balancing experimentation, technical debt, and delivery velocity.
• Partner with CX, Operations, Risk, Compliance, Finance, and Engineering to ensure alignment on processes, risk tolerances, regulatory expectations, and customer goals.
• Build strong business cases and communicate tradeoffs across executive and senior leadership stakeholders.
• Influence the broader product ecosystem by collaborating with other PMs on payments, onboarding, risk, and customer experience flows that intersect Payroll.
• Use analytics, qualitative insights, and operational data to guide prioritization and evaluate success.
• Proactively identify friction points, investigate performance risks, and design scalable mechanisms to improve user experience and operational efficiency.
• Serve as a subject matter expert on Payroll, compliance, financial workflows, and employer/employee money movement.
• Provide strategic guidance to senior leadership on how to evolve Wave’s Payroll offering to win in market and better serve small businesses.

Senior Product Manager