Technical Product Manager
Overview
YNAB is hiring a Technical Product Manager to join their infrastructure product group, focusing on making YNAB more scalable, resilient, and joyful.
Job Description
YNAB is a financial education company with a spendfulness app that helps people all over the world spend their money on what matters most to them. They are looking for a technically-minded Product Manager to join their infrastructure effort.
Responsibilities
- - Determine what to work on and why
- - Participate in the how
- - Share the responsibility for execution
- - Act as the grease (not the glue)
- - Become an expert on the business, product, and customers
- - Use research to refine team priorities
- - Map the team's work from long-term vision to short-term roadmap
- - Navigate trade-offs and define key indicators
- - Communicate the value and strategic purpose of the work
- - Act as a critical sounding-board for product designers and engineers
- - Monitor effort and resources involved in each approach
- - Meet colleagues where they are and speak the languages of engineering and/or product design
- - Understand that accountability is shared
- - Take on some project management responsibilities
- - Define launch plans, manage release cycles, and conduct retrospectives
- - Communicate relentlessly to ensure team alignment
- - Collaborate with engineers and product designers to validate assumptions
Required Skills
- - At least three years of experience as a Product Manager
- - Strong technical background
- - Experience in the SaaS industry
- - Experience with complex, data-rich applications, developer-facing products, cross-platform code sharing, legacy system migrations, developer documentation and architectural guidelines, analytics pipelines and data warehouses, security best practices, cross-platform release planning and execution, third party APIs, and infrastructure improvements
- - Deep love for cross-functional product development
Benefits
- - Fully remote work
- - Four-day work week
- - Flexible work schedule
- - Minimum vacation policy of three weeks per year
- - Company-wide December Break
- - Opportunity to meet with YNAB teammates at least once a year
- - Generous paid family leave, vacation, holidays, and sick time
- - Fantastic medical, dental, and vision insurance for US employees
- - Traditional and Roth 401(k) option with YNAB matching contributions
- - Six percent pension contribution for UK employees
- - Competitive compensation with annual raises and profit-share
About the company
Today, YNAB is driven by a small (but growing!), passionate team. We are building the best method for money management out there. When you gain control of your money, you gain control of your life and it feels great.