Core Payroll Platform Product Manager

🕒 April 6

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Hourly

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51 - 200 employees

👥 HR Tech

☁️ SaaS

🤝 B2B

HR Tech • SaaS • B2B

Hourly is a comprehensive payroll and HR management platform designed to streamline business operations. It provides integrated solutions for payroll, time tracking, GPS, HR, and workers' compensation, ensuring real-time data synchronization. Hourly's platform is particularly beneficial for small business owners looking to simplify payroll tasks and ensure precise financial management with pay-as-you-go options. Businesses in various industries such as construction, maintenance, transportation, and food service leverage Hourly to enhance operational efficiency and manage workers' compensation and payroll needs seamlessly.

📋 Description

• 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.