Staff Product Manager, Benefits

Deel is the all-in-one payroll and HR platform for global teams. Our vision is to unlock global opportunity for every person, team, and business. Built for the way the world works today, Deel combines HRIS, payroll, compliance, benefits, performance, and equipment management into one seamless platform. With AI-powered tools and a fully owned payroll infrastructure, Deel supports every worker type in 150+ countries—helping businesses scale smarter, faster, and more compliantly.

Benefits is one of Deel's fastest growing products. What started as a feature bundled into our core offering has grown into a strategic product area in its own right, and we're now investing seriously in what it becomes next. We're past the earliest proving phase, but we're nowhere near done. The next chapter is growth and depth: expanding global coverage country by country, and making the experience genuinely great for the companies that administer benefits and the workers who live in them every day.

This role owns both tracks:

• 1-to-100: Take an early-stage product and build it into something people are proud of by improving depth, reliability, and the global user experience at scale.
• 0-to-1: Define and launch a new product vertical within benefits. The ambition is set; the execution is yours to shape.

What you'll actually do

• Own the 1-to-100: Work directly with customers to understand where the product falls short and iterate rapidly.
• Ensure that AI is at the core of your product and user’s experience. Ship experiences where agents do the work the users used to do.
• Drive product depth — improving integrations, enrollment flows, and the experience for companies and employees managing benefits globally.
• Partner closely with Ops, Sales, and GTMs to ensure the product can be sold and adopted at scale.
• Make hard prioritisation calls across a complex, multi-market product with real commercial stakes.
• Lead a 0-to-1: Define and ship an MVP of a new product vertical within the first 3 months.
• Run structured discovery, frame the problem clearly, and move from insight to shipped product quickly.
• Leverage Deel's existing infrastructure and distribution where relevant; we have significant assets to build on.
• Operate as a high-agency, technically credible PM: Hold peer-level technical conversations with engineering leads, not as an engineer, but as a PM who understands the constraints and speaks the language.
• Use AI tools actively in your day-to-day workflow. Not aspirationally — concretely, specifically, today.
• Navigate constant prioritisation trade-offs with a CEO who is directly engaged with product decisions.

What you'll bring

• Non-negotiable: Real 0-to-1 experience: you have taken a product from a blank page to something in market, and you can tell that story end-to-end including the hard parts.
• Product taste and war stories: you have shipped enough to have strong instincts about what good looks like, and you can back them with evidence.
• Active AI fluency: you build products that leverage AI and use AI tools in your workflow today, specifically and concretely. Not planning to. Not interested in. Actually doing it.
• Technical credibility: you can hold a peer-level conversation with an engineering lead about APIs, integrations, and data models.
• High agency from day one: you do not need a clean brief or a finished roadmap. You are the person who creates structure, not finds it.

Strongly valued:

• B2B SaaS experience at a scaling startup or scaleup: managing multiple engineering teams and owning both discovery and delivery.
• Multi-country product experience: understanding that global compliance is a product problem, not just a legal one.
• 7+ years of PM experience with demonstrable Staff-level impact.
• Fintech, payments, or embedded finance background — experience building transaction-based or financially complex products.

What we are not looking for:

• Deep Benefits domain knowledge as a substitute for product craft: we care about how you build, not which industry you've built in.
• Someone who needs the environment to be structured before they can operate.
• Delivery-focused PMs without strong discovery instincts.

How Deel works — what you're walking into

• Quarterly planning exists but plans change. New priorities emerge and the organisation moves fast. That is a feature, not a bug.
• The CEO is directly engaged with product decisions — you will have exposure at the leadership level from day one.
• AI is embedded in how we work — in the product, in the process, and in how individuals operate day to day. Everyone has access to frontier AI tools with no limits.
• Releases are frequent. If a client is blocked, you solve it — you do not wait for the next window.
• This is not for everyone. If you need structure to feel comfortable, this will be hard. If that sounds like the right kind of hard, we'd like to hear from you.

Total Rewards

Our workforce deserves fair and competitive pay that meets them where they are. With scalable benefits, rewards, and perks, our total rewards programs reflect our commitment to inclusivity and access for all.

Our salary range reflects gross base salary. For commercial roles with commission eligibility, this figure represents On-Target Earnings (OTE), inclusive of base salary and target commission. Salary ranges are quoted in USD as a consistent global reference. Your offer will be localized to your country's currency using a market-aligned conversion. Final pay is based on objective, job-related criteria including experience, skills, and location.

We don't ask about salary history. Offers are based on the role and what you bring to it.

Some things you'll enjoy:

• Stock grant opportunities dependent on your role, employment status and location.
• Additional perks and benefits based on your employment status and country.
• The flexibility of remote work, including optional WeWork access.

At Deel, we're an equal-opportunity employer that values diversity and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of race, religion, sex, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, pregnancy or maternity or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

Deel welcomes persons with disabilities to apply to any of our open roles. We will provide application and/or interview accommodations on request throughout the recruitment, selection and assessment process for applicants with disabilities or other needs. If you require application and/or interview accommodations, please inform our Talent Acquisition Team via email (recruiting@deel.com) and a team member will be in touch to ensure your equal participation.

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