The Role

ℹ️ This is a 12-month fixed-term employment contract.

Location: While this position is posted in a specific location, all of Oyster’s positions are fully remote and you can work from home. Forever. To create the best experience for our new hire, this role requires you to be based within +3 / -3 UTC.

As a Lead Product Manager for the Hire & Onboard team, you will own the product vision, strategy, and execution for the end-to-end hiring and onboarding experience. This includes customer-facing workflows, internal tools, and employee-facing experiences that enable companies around the world to hire efficiently, compliantly, and at scale. You should be an AI-first product thinker, comfortable applying automation and AI to solve real customer and operational problems. You bring strong product judgment, a structured approach to problem-solving, and the ability to balance user needs, regulatory complexity, and business outcomes.

In this role, you will operate at the intersection of product strategy, delivery, and cross-functional execution. You’ll lead complex initiatives that require close collaboration across Engineering, Design, Legal, Compliance, Finance, Operations, and Go-To-Market teams. Strong ownership, clear communication, and the ability to drive alignment and momentum are critical to success.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the product vision and strategy for the Hire & Onboard domain, aligned with company goals and customer outcomes.
• Lead discovery and prioritisation across hiring and onboarding problems, balancing new features, regulatory needs, tech debt, and operational improvements.
• Translate strategy into execution, defining clear roadmaps, outcomes, and success metrics.
• Partner closely with Engineering and Design to deliver high-quality, scalable solutions with strong user experience.
• Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders, including Operations, Legal/Compliance, and Go to Market, to ensure feasibility and alignment.
• Represent the Hire & Onboard domain in senior stakeholder forums, clearly communicating trade-offs, progress, risks, and impact.
• Identify and evaluate opportunities to leverage AI and automation to improve hiring and onboarding outcomes, efficiency, and decision-making.
• Use data and insights (quantitative and qualitative) to inform decisions, measure impact, and continuously improve outcomes.
• Ensure regulatory and compliance requirements are embedded into product development without compromising usability or speed.
• Continuously improve product processes, contributing to best practices across the wider Product organisation.

Core Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in Product Management, with a strong track record of owning complex product areas end-to-end and driving measurable business and customer outcomes.
• 3+ years of experience in HR tech, hiring, onboarding, payroll, compliance, or B2B SaaS, with a solid understanding of regulated or operationally complex domains.
• Strong product discovery and problem-framing skills, with the ability to deeply understand customer pain points, validate assumptions, and translate insights into impactful product solutions.
• Hands-on experience building or iterating on AI-powered and automation-driven features, including defining use cases, evaluating trade-offs, and measuring real-world impact.
• Highly data-driven, comfortable using qualitative and quantitative insights to inform prioritisation, measure success, and continuously improve outcomes.
• Experience working in multinational, cross-functional environments, collaborating effectively across Engineering, Design, Legal, Compliance, Operations, and Go-To-Market teams.
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity, with a proactive, ownership-driven mindset and the ability to bring clarity and structure to complex or evolving problem spaces.
• Strong standards for quality, ethics, and transparency, particularly when building products that impact people, employment, and compliance.
• Proven experience in scale-up or high-growth environments, with the ability to balance speed, quality, and long-term sustainability.

You’ll also need

• A reliable home internet connection (or be able to get one)
• Fluent English language skills