Product Manager - Payments (hybrid 2x a week in office)

WHO WE ARE We are a modern, embedded payroll provider that helps empower companies to build their own unique payroll service. On top of our easy-to-use payroll API we are pioneering an all inclusive tax engine to democratize a broken and cumbersome process providing accessibility to small, medium and large businesses and helping Americans get paid.

Backed by over $14 million in funding from top investors such as Y Combinator, Spark Capital (Marqeta, Coinbase, Affirm), and Robinhood's Founder; Vlad Tenev we are projected to be a forerunner in embedded payroll with an industry amassing billions of dollars in untapped revenue.

Our mission is to empower companies to become their own fin-tech company using our simple, seamless, and forward-thinking payroll technology and we'd love to learn more about you and how you could be a fit for our growing team here in San Francisco!

ABOUT THE ROLE We are looking for our third product hire here at Zeal. As part of the founding Product team, you will manage the payments within our payroll infrastructure and will help lay down the foundations for the product team to grow and scale. You will be an active participant in discussions with stakeholders, engineering, and design to help ship beautiful products that our users love. If you are on board for a large-scope product role with the ability to wear many hats and define an amazing fin-tech product, this may be the role for you!

SOME THINGS YOU MAY BE WORKING ON

• This is a highly autonomous role that will own the entire payments road map here at Zeal
• You will support multiple different methods of payments: push to card, earned wage access programs, and more
• Building a digital wallet program for employees and employers to organize funds and get money faster to those who need it
• Working on establishing and improving our bank integrations
• Partner with Ops to automate and improve the everyday ACH process for customers with a keen focus on process optimization
• Write and maintain user stories per changing product and engineering requirements
• Liaise between various teams to manage project scope
• Maintain accurate, up-to-date internal documentation and release notes
• You will partner in product discovery and lead product delivery to ensure the final, shipped product matches the expectations of the customer
• Collaborate with various teams to manage project scope, reporting on project statuses and key metrics

YOU HAVE

• A few years of experience as a Product Manager preferably at a start-up
• Experience working within payments or fintech adjacent industries would be great
• Experience overseeing roadmap strategy and definition for a B2B-related product
• Skilled at product strategy and road mapping
• You have experience with task and project management as well as some analytics tools
• Adept at white-boarding and have the ability to conduct customer and user surveys to optimize the current and future product roadmap
• A keen sense for prioritization and being flexible to iterate on changing business requirements
• Strong communication and collaboration skills and you are an adept partner to stakeholders, engineers, designers, and other staff members

NICE-TO-HAVE

• Experience working in finance, information systems, or an API ecosystem
• Customer-driven product development experience, you think about the problem first and question the ‘why’ behind how we build our products
• Interest in payroll, HR, and/or the fin-tech landscape

OUR INTERVIEW PROCESS This is our process for most of our roles, but sometimes stages are subject to change from time to time, but we will definitely notify you of the change ahead of time.

Step 1: Chat with our recruiter

Step 2: Chat with the hiring manager

Step 3: Take-Home Assignment

Step 4: Presentation/Final Interview with the team

After a few days to 1 week, we will get back to you with a decision

ZEAL CULTURE Zeal is located in the SoMa district of San Francisco and we value in-person collaboration and communication as we grow and scale our business. We are a tight-knit, inclusive community that is into music 🎵, cocktails 🍹, pets 🐈🐕, ping-pong 🏓 and above all else ~ high quality espresso ☕ but more importantly we value championing for our employees to bring their authentic true selves to work and aim to provide a fun and collaborative work environment for everyone!

OUR BENEFITS

• 100% health coverage premium paid by the company; vision, dental
• Generous salary and equity for all staff
• 401k option; helping you save for the future
• up to $4k reimbursement for female employees to get access to safe and legal abortion care
• Monthly benefits stipend to use for lunch, commuting, and other essentials
• Free professional headshot for your LinkedIn
• Free snacks and drinks and Friday happy hours
• Awesome Swag

OUR COMPENSATION & PHILOSOPHY The range for this role is between $115,000 and $145,000 for California-based candidates Check out our Job Leveling, Salary, and Equity Guide to learn more! {https://www.notion.so/Job-Leveling-Salary-and-Equity-at-Zeal-ae4900f63acd465e871a76c5afa9cbbe}

❤️ If you are curious to know more about our culture, check out our Notion Culture Doc {https://www.notion.so/Do-remarkable-things-at-Zeal-0d9af42e7dd2498391e1ccfde42c0137}

Zeal is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.