We’re Looking for a Product Manager

About Us and Why We’re Hiring

We construct “You Want a Funds,” the very best budgeting software program round. (However folks within the know name us YNAB, which is pronounced “why-nab.”) For greater than a decade, folks have been shopping for YNAB after which telling their associates what a distinction it has made of their lives. Google us, or learn a few of our critiques on the app store, and also you’ll see what we imply. We love constructing one thing that has an enormous optimistic affect on folks’s lives.

We’re a software program ecosystem that features private budgeting apps for net, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Android telephones. Our mission is to verify the entire world is aware of {that a} price range is the very best life and monetary planning device ever invented—and assist make it easy and joyful to make use of one.

YNAB is rising, and so is our product crew. You’re the product supervisor we’re on the lookout for in the event you’re collaborative, results-oriented, inventive, persistent, and disciplined. (To date, so good?) You like fixing advanced issues—each internally and for our customers—and know what it means to construct a mature, evolving product. You’re customer-centric and have a knack for growing a deep understanding of customers’ wants, and you may say the identical about understanding the challenges a SaaS enterprise like YNAB faces within the bigger market panorama. You in all probability manage issues in your sleep and luxuriate in making sense of chaos, however you’re additionally snug dwelling in spots the place messy is THE place to be. You talk for a dwelling and you understand it, so that you perceive the language of improvement and design, advertising and marketing and help, and use these languages effectively in all mediums, from face-to-face, to long-form, to feedback in a Figma file. You expound on decision-making methods for approach too lengthy at summer time barbeques, however one way or the other preserve folks listening. 

Necessities (these are actual, precise necessities): 

• You should have at the very least 5 years of expertise working within the SaaS business, at the very least 4 of which have been as a product supervisor. Advanced, data-rich functions are a plus.
• You should have expertise in cross-functional product improvement. And we actually imply that cross-functional half.

That’s a super-brief intro to what we’re on the lookout for. However first, you have to know in the event you’ll even like working with us. Let’s discuss a bit about life at YNAB, after which we’ll go into extra element about this position. 

We’re worthwhile, bootstrapped, and rising. YNAB was based in 2004 and we haven’t taken any outdoors funding—we’re in it for the lengthy haul. We’ve one overarching requirement with regards to becoming a member of our crew: our authentic Core Values Manifesto has to actually click on with you. In the event you’re nodding emphatically whereas studying it, you’ll in all probability actually prefer it right here, and we will’t wait to listen to from you!

We stay our Core Values daily at YNAB, and we imply it once we say we’re an equal alternative employer. We imagine {that a} range of backgrounds, talents, beliefs, and experiences are important to our success, and we’re keen about making a welcoming, supportive, and collaborative setting for all workers. All are inspired to use as we proceed to develop a sensible, hard-working, and various crew who loves working collectively to construct one thing that issues.

We additionally work actually exhausting, collectively, to make working at YNAB an incredible expertise, and we have been (humbly) proud to be named Fortune’s #1 Best Small Company to Work For for the final two years. We have a crew filled with really distinctive folks—the sort you’ll be excited to work with. We’d like to introduce you to a couple of them!

Who you’d be working with:

We’re speaking product administration right here, so that you’ll be working with a whole lot of completely different folks. We are able to’t even checklist all of them, actually. So we’ll begin with (only a few of) your fellow product managers: Elena, Hannah, Lee, and Milène. 

Elena began at YNAB as a help specialist, and empathy for the person expertise stays an enormous focus for her. Elena is an ever-optimizer, consistently attempting to make our processes extra environment friendly. Pre-YNAB she labored within the cheese business—in the event you’re a fan of fromage, you possibly can look ahead to many tasty suggestions!

Hannah loves constructing empowered, revolutionary, and trust-filled groups and is deeply invested in serving to people and communities change their monetary narratives and realities. She has a penchant for prepositional phrases and an abiding absorption with acronyms (and alliteration). She’s additionally a dancer and performing artist. 

Lee is keen about sample recognition and paring down advanced issues into easy options. He loves trivia, phrase puzzles, and discovering the precise proper vacuum attachment for the job. Lee firmly believes that some leftovers are higher when not reheated.

Milène joined YNAB from the information world and is keen to make YNAB extra data-informed however not data-obsessed. She frequently helps her associates higher handle their funds and may now scale this ardour by way of her job. Exterior of labor, you will discover Milène attempting the newest NYC eating places, planning her subsequent journey journey, or emptying her thoughts with a jigsaw puzzle.   

And as we mentioned above, you’ll additionally cross paths with—effectively—in all probability everybody else. Folks like Sophie and Scott (a few our builders), Niki or Adam (each designers), Angela (our Head of Assist), and Kelly (our product advertising and marketing specialist).

How You’ll Work at YNAB

Now that you just’ve met a few of your potential future teammates, let’s discuss extra about YNAB as an organization. Right here’s how we function:

Stay The place You Need

We’re a completely distant crew, so you possibly can stay and work wherever you need (with a dependable web connection!). That mentioned, you’ll be working predominantly with of us based mostly in North America, so we count on that you just’ll be keen and capable of work North American hours for a good portion of your time. Proximity doesn’t affect productiveness, but it surely positive does assist with communication typically.

No Outrageous Hours

We wish everybody to have a full life outdoors of YNAB, and we seldom work greater than 40 hours per week. There have been a number of events the place issues received busy and folks needed to put some further time in. However then they took some further time without work, so all of it balances out. We work exhausting and good however we’re on this for the lengthy haul.

Take Trip (Critically)

We wish you to take trip. In truth, we’ve a minimal trip coverage of three weeks per 12 months. 5 weeks feels about proper (plus two further weeks for our company-wide December break). It’s vital to get loads of downtime and get out and do one thing. We’ll look ahead to seeing photos of your adventures in our #office_wall Slack channel!

The YNAB Retreat

When the pandemic isn’t maintaining us from touring, we get the groups collectively every year to atone for spreadsheets and powerpoints in a Greatest Western convention room. Simply kidding. To date, we’ve achieved Costa Rica, a gigantic cabin within the mountains, a seaside home within the Outer Banks, a ranch in Montana, and most not too long ago, Laguna Beach. We work collectively, play collectively, and reinforce the bonds we’ve made as a crew and firm. Yearly, we depart refreshed, motivated, and excited for the 12 months forward collectively.

Up Your Sport

We’re critical about serving to you enhance your craft. We price range for it (hey-o!). Assume conferences, on-line programs and subscriptions, devoted time away from work to be taught one thing new… it’s actually as much as you and your supervisor. However we like to see our folks rising.  

U.S. or Worldwide? Nice!

Our crew is unfold everywhere in the world, together with Switzerland, Argentina, Scotland, Canada, Iceland, and everywhere in the United States. We presently arrange crew members who stay within the U.S. or U.Ok. as workers, and people who stay in different international locations as unbiased contractors. You’re an equal a part of the crew irrespective of the place you reside!

Advantages

For full-time W2 workers within the U.S., we provide incredible well being, dental, and imaginative and prescient insurance coverage, the place we cowl 100% of the premium for you and your loved ones. No must verify your imaginative and prescient, you learn that proper—100%. Though in the event you did must verify your imaginative and prescient, NBD, we’ve received you lined!

For full- and part-time W2 workers within the U.S., we even have a Conventional and Roth 401(ok) possibility. YNAB matches your contributions as much as six %, and matches vest instantly. (Are you a private finance junkie like our founder Jesse? He arrange YNAB’s 401k to have the bottom payment construction attainable, the place all plan prices are paid by YNAB, not your retirement nest egg. The funding funds accessible are incredible, passively-managed, extremely low-cost index funds. You’re not a PF junkie? Belief us, it’s superior.) For U.Ok. workers, we additionally contribute six % to your pension.

Aggressive Compensation

The beginning wage vary for this place is $105,000 – $121,000 yearly. We think about raises yearly, and have a bi-annual profit-share bonus. YNAB wins, you win—that form of factor.

Different Tidbits

• When you begin, we DEMAND (in a pleasant, ALL CAPS IS YELLING approach) that you just fill out your “Bucket Record” spreadsheet with 50 gadgets. (That’s tougher than it sounds!) 
• The bucket checklist actually helps in deciding what we should always provide you with in your birthday and the vacations.
• We’re all adults. There’s no must punch a clock, or ask for permission to take off early one afternoon to go see the physician. We have a look at what you accomplish, not how lengthy you’re in entrance of a pc.
• We wish you firing on all cylinders so we’ll set you up with a shiny new laptop and substitute it each three years.
• Did we point out that YNAB makes an enormous, optimistic distinction in folks’s lives? You might not assume that issues a lot, however then a number of months down the street you’ll notice it’s made your job actually, actually fulfilling. Don’t underestimate this one!

If this feels like your excellent setting, learn on as a result of now we wish to speak about you, and the way you’ll play an enormous half in altering folks’s lives.

Apply

Now, again to you, our new Product Supervisor…

What Success Seems to be Like: 

Our aim is for each YNAB person to attain life-changing monetary management—and for the entire planet to comprehend it’s attainable. No small factor, proper? In 2022, we’re centered on serving to all customers see YNAB match their wants—purposeful, social, and emotional—as they resolve monetary struggles.

Trying inward, you’ll additionally assist us evolve our methods and processes to ship top-notch, dare we are saying life-changing, experiences to our customers. We’ve been rising. Rather a lot. We’ve labored exhausting to create groups which might be autonomous and outcome-focused, however we’ll by no means be ones to relaxation on our laurels. We count on you to talk up while you see a possibility to enhance our group and processes, and to embrace change as we proceed to develop.

You’ll must: 

• Usually ship actual worth to our customers. You possibly can each stay two years forward of your crew and help them within the current second as you shepherd work from discovery to ideation to launch to follow-up. Particularly, you’ll work hand-in-hand with a product designer in your crew to collectively develop imaginative and prescient, prioritize, and execute on technique.
• Perceive the person journey, not simply the one in our apps, but additionally the one in the true world as customers resolve their monetary struggles.
• Be snug with a number of discovery and ideation methods in your quest to make YNAB constantly higher. You get pleasure from speaking to prospects in person interviews and value testing and have a knack for summarizing analysis in a concise approach for teammates. 
• Be a curious, persistent, and fast learner, staying forward of recent concepts, applied sciences and different alternatives to assist YNAB customers take whole management of their cash, and possibly even sleep higher at night time.
• Perceive deeply that at YNAB “cross-functional” isn’t code for “designers and engineers.” We all know that nice concepts can come from anyplace, so Assist Specialists and Entrepreneurs are additionally members of our flat product groups. 
• Study the design rules and monetary logic of our apps just like the again of your hand. Then be taught our engineering processes just like the again of your different hand. Then discover one other hand for internalizing our model, advertising and marketing methods, and help ethic.
• Synthesize and make sense of ALL THE DATA and details about our merchandise, for your self and to assist others throughout the group make higher selections. You’re fluent in quantitative and qualitative information assortment and evaluation—and are cautious concerning the failings of every.
• Talk, clarify, persuade, discover and in any other case get all of the issues achieved in asynchronous codecs. Sure, we like speaking to one another in actual time, however as a distant crew, a lot of our collaboration is asynchronous and written.
• Be intensely curious. Interval.
• Oh, additionally, to not the exclusion of anything, however you’re intensely interested by how folks be taught, what motivates them, how they modify and develop habits, and the way conduct inside a product would possibly change conduct outdoors it.
• Be snug talking the language of software program improvement and product design. In the event you’re additionally snug diving into HTML and CSS (and even one of many programming languages in our improvement stack!), that’s a plus, but it surely’s not a requirement. Being conversant throughout all disciplines is essential.
• Handle key associate relationships, from day-to-day communication to contract negotiation.

That’s twelve bullets, however let’s nonetheless say that your success as a product supervisor comes all the way down to this: Your means to strategy product improvement as holistic, simultaneous, problem-solving of each person and enterprise objectives. 

And if we haven’t but spilled sufficient metaphorical ink on this concept: We work collaboratively right here so that you’ll hearken to concepts, questions, and critiques from teammates with grace and persistence—not as a result of that’s good, however since you see this as important to our shared success. That mentioned, you understand your stuff and may eloquently and logically clarify selections and, not for nothing, make them when the rubber hits the street. Full cease.

The right way to Apply

• Apply under by 11:59pm PST on Sunday, January twenty third. Agency. It’s an actual deadline. The sort you like.
• Connect a PDF of your cowl letter. 
  • In your cowl letter, introduce your self and clarify why this place is of curiosity to you, and why you’ll be a fantastic match. Please restrict this part of the duvet letter to 1.5 pages at most.
  • Embrace the phrase “consider” someplace in your cowl letter. 
  • On a separate web page of your cowl letter, reply the next questions (with every response being a couple of paragraph in size):
    • What attracted you to this place? (This isn’t about what attracted you to the software program.)
    • What standards do you search for when trying to find your subsequent firm or place?
    • What are your favourite and least favourite components of your present job?
    • Inform us a couple of time while you needed to be taught one thing new to excel at your job.
    • We love somebody with a perspective about product improvement. Reply, in a single paragraph: How early is just too early to ship? How late is just too late?
• When you’ve got a ready resume, connect it in PDF kind. In the event you don’t have a resume since you aren’t even positive you’re trying to change jobs, that’s nice! A casual checklist of your work and schooling historical past is all we’re on the lookout for.
• Please tell us if you need to reveal a necessity for lodging in reference to the recruitment and hiring course of. If that’s the case, contact us at [email protected] and point out within the topic line that you just’re making use of for the Product Supervisor position. Please solely use this electronic mail deal with for that objective.
• Notice: although we all know it’s customary in some international locations, we’d want in the event you didn’t share a headshot in your software supplies. Thanks!

We’re excited to listen to from you!

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