[Hiring] Senior Director of Product @Oyster

Role Description

As Senior Director of Product for our Employer of Record offering, you will own the product vision, strategy, and execution across the full employer of record (EoR) lifecycle. This spans customer-facing workflows, internal tooling, and employee-facing experiences that enable companies around the world to hire, onboard, pay, and manage their global workforce efficiently, compliantly, and at scale.

This leader will treat the entire Customer journey, from onboarding documentation collection through time off, benefits, pay, and offboarding, as a single seamless experience for our customers and our team members.

We’re looking for an AI-first product leader comfortable applying creativity and first-principles thinking to solve real Customer and operational problems across a complex, regulated domain.

Key Responsibilities

• Accountable for the end-to-end performance and strategic alignment of the EoR platform, ensuring it delivers measurable business impact and Customer outcomes across the full employment lifecycle.
• Own prioritization, delivery integrity, and cross-functional alignment to company objectives, with responsibility for translating strategy into scalable, outcome-driven product execution.
• Spearhead highly complex, business-critical product and platform initiatives, successfully navigating executive alignment and securing executive buy-in to translate the EoR product’s strategic vision into definitive, measurable company outcomes.
• Directly manage, develop, and grow a team of Product Managers, setting a high bar for product craft, discovery, and delivery.
• Drive prioritization across the product, balancing new features, regulatory requirements, tech debt, and operational improvements across multiple teams and roadmaps.
• Translate product strategy into execution, working with Product Managers to define clear roadmaps, outcomes, and success metrics at the team and domain level.
• Partner closely with Engineering and Design leadership to deliver high-quality, scalable solutions with strong user experience across both teams.
• Partner with leaders across Operations, Finance, and Legal to shape broader company strategy, ensuring the platform supports overall business and margin goals.
• Represent the EoR, Contractors, and connected areas at the strategic leadership level, clearly communicating strategy, trade-offs, progress, risks, and impact.
• Use data and insights to inform product-level decisions, measure impact, and drive continuous improvement.
• Contribute to the wider Product organization, shaping best practices, raising the bar for product quality, and helping build a strong product-led culture.
• Foster an AI-first culture within the Product organization, reimagining our product development lifecycles to maximize operational velocity and scalability.
• Build, inspire, and retain a high-performing, bar-raising, remote-first Product team, ensuring the organization has the talent and capability to execute our long-term product strategy.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in Product Management, including 5+ years in a leadership role managing other Product Managers, with a strong track record of driving measurable business and Customer outcomes across complex product domains.
• 4+ years of experience in HR tech, EoR, payroll, compliance, or B2B SaaS, with deep familiarity with regulated or operationally complex environments.
• Demonstrated ability to set and communicate product vision and strategy at a product or business-unit level, connecting team-level work to company outcomes.
• Strong track record as a systems thinker, with a proven ability to take highly complex, localized regulations and turn them into scalable, automated, agentic product workflows.
• Proven people leadership skills, with experience coaching and developing Product Management talent, building high-performing teams, and creating clarity in ambiguous environments.
• Experience leading multi-layered product organizations, including managing and developing other product leaders.
• Proven track record of hiring and developing "bar-raising" talent, turning individual contributors into strong leaders and leaving teams significantly stronger than you found them.
• Strong product discovery and problem-framing skills, with the ability to synthesize Customer pain points, market signals, and operational data into an impactful product strategy.
• Hands-on experience driving AI-powered and automation-driven product initiatives, including defining use-cases, evaluating trade-offs, and measuring real-world impact.
• Highly data-driven, with the ability to operate at both the strategic and analytical levels.
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity, with a proactive, ownership-driven mindset and the ability to bring clarity and structure across a multi-team domain.
• High standards for quality, ethics, and transparency, particularly when building products that directly impact people's employment, compensation, and compliance.
• Proven experience in scale-up or high-growth environments, balancing speed, quality, and long-term sustainability across multiple teams and workstreams.

Requirements

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

Benefits

• Enjoy 40 days off per year (including holidays and vacation), or more if required by your country.
• Access Plumm, our mental well-being service.
• Each month, receive a wellbeing allowance in your ThanksBen wallet. Spend it on a wide range of options; see the benefits catalogue for ideas.
• All new parents are eligible for at least three months’ paid leave, with job protection for up to 12 months or as required locally.
• Receive a stipend for your laptop and home office equipment to get you set up quickly.