We’re Hiring a Humbly Confident Product Manager

About Us and Why We’re Hiring 

We construct “You Want a Finances,” the perfect 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 mates what a distinction it has made of their lives. Google us, or learn a few of our evaluations 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 internet, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Android telephones. Our mission is to ensure the entire world is aware of {that a} funds is the perfect life and monetary planning software ever invented—and assist make it easy and joyful to make use of one.

YNAB is rising, and so is our product workforce. You’re the product supervisor we’re in search of in case you’re collaborative, results-oriented, artistic, persistent, and disciplined. (To date, so good?) You like fixing complicated 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 creating 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 most likely set up 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 realize it, so that you perceive the language of improvement and design, advertising and marketing and assist, and use these languages properly 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 season barbeques, however by some means hold folks listening. 

Necessities (these are actual, precise necessities): 

• You have to 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. Complicated, data-rich purposes are a plus.
• You have to have expertise in cross-functional product improvement. And we actually imply that cross-functional half.

That’s a brilliant transient intro to what we’re in search of. However first, it’s essential to know in case 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 function. 

We’re worthwhile, bootstrapped, and rising. YNAB was based in 2004 and we haven’t taken any exterior funding—we’re in it for the lengthy haul. We’ve got one overarching requirement in the case of becoming a member of our workforce: our unique Core Value Manifesto has to essentially click on with you. In case you’re nodding emphatically whereas studying it, you’ll most likely actually prefer it right here, and we will’t wait to listen to from you!

We dwell our Core Values day-after-day at YNAB, and we imply it after we say we’re an equal alternative employer. We imagine {that a} variety of backgrounds, skills, beliefs, and experiences are crucial to our success, and we’re keen about making a welcoming, supportive, and collaborative surroundings for all staff. All are inspired to use as we proceed to develop this good, hard-working, and numerous workforce who loves working collectively to construct one thing that issues.

We additionally work actually arduous, collectively, to make working at YNAB an incredible expertise, and we’re (humbly) proud to have been named Fortune’s #1 Best Small Company to Work For for the last two years. We have a workforce filled with really distinctive folks—the type 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 loads of totally different folks. We are able to’t even record all of them, actually. So we’ll begin with (just some of) your fellow product managers: Elena, Hannah, Lee, and Milène. 

Elena began at YNAB as a assist specialist, and empathy for the person expertise stays an enormous point of interest 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 case you’re a fan of fromage, you may stay up for many tasty suggestions!

Hannah loves constructing empowered, progressive, 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 complicated 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 info world and is keen to make YNAB extra data-informed however not data-obsessed. She frequently helps her mates higher handle their funds and might now scale this ardour by her job. Outdoors of labor, yow 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—properly—most likely everybody else. Folks like Sophie and Scott (a few our builders), Cindy and Adam (each designers), Angela (our Head of Help), 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:

Dwell The place You Need

We’re a totally distant workforce, so you may dwell and work wherever you need (with a dependable web connection!). That mentioned, you’ll be working predominantly with people based mostly in North America, so we count on that you just’ll be prepared and capable of work North American hours for a good portion of your time. Proximity doesn’t affect productiveness, but it surely certain does assist with communication typically.

No Outrageous Hours

We would like everybody to have a full life exterior of YNAB, and we seldom work greater than 40 hours per week. There have been a couple of events the place issues acquired busy and folks needed to put some additional time in. However then they took some additional day without work, so all of it balances out. We work arduous and good however we’re on this for the lengthy haul.

Take Trip (Significantly)

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

The YNAB Retreat

When the pandemic isn’t protecting us from touring, we get the groups collectively annually to make amends for spreadsheets and powerpoints in a Finest Western convention room. Simply kidding. To date, we’ve carried out Costa Rica, a gigantic cabin within the mountains, a seashore home within the Outer Banks, a ranch in Montana, and most just lately, Laguna Beach. We work collectively, play collectively, and reinforce the bonds we’ve made as a workforce and firm. Yearly, we depart refreshed, motivated, and excited for the 12 months forward collectively.

Up Your Recreation

We’re critical about serving to you enhance your craft. We funds 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 workforce is unfold throughout the globe, together with Switzerland, Argentina, Scotland, Canada, Iceland, and everywhere in the United States. We presently arrange workforce members who dwell within the U.S. or U.Okay. as staff, and those that dwell in different international locations as unbiased contractors. You’re an equal a part of the workforce regardless of the place you reside!

Advantages

For full-time W2 staff 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 have to examine your imaginative and prescient, you learn that proper—100%. Though in case you did have to examine your imaginative and prescient, NBD, we’ve acquired you lined! 

For full- and part-time W2 staff within the U.S., we even have a Conventional and Roth 401(okay) choice. YNAB matches your contributions as much as six p.c, 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 potential, the place all plan prices are paid by YNAB, not your retirement nest egg. The funding funds out there are incredible, passively-managed, extremely low-cost index funds. You’re not a PF junkie? Belief us, it’s superior.) For U.Okay. staff, we additionally contribute six p.c to your pension.

Aggressive Compensation

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

Different Tidbits

• When you begin, we DEMAND (in a pleasant, ALL CAPS IS YELLING approach) that you just fill out your “Bucket Checklist” spreadsheet with 50 gadgets. (That’s tougher than it sounds!) 
• The bucket record actually helps in deciding what we must always provide you with to your birthday and the vacations.
• We’re all adults. There’s no have to punch a clock, or ask for permission to take off early one afternoon to go see the physician. We take a look at what you accomplish, not how lengthy you’re in entrance of a pc.
• We’re presently trialing a four-day work week! For us, this implies 4 common days of labor adopted by a three-day weekend…each week. That is new to us, and we’re studying loads, however we’re enthusiastic about what it may imply each for the corporate and our workforce members.  
• We would like you firing on all cylinders so we’ll set you up with a shiny new laptop and change it each three years.
• Did we point out that YNAB makes an enormous, optimistic distinction in folks’s lives? It’s possible you’ll not assume that issues a lot, however then a couple of months down the street you’ll understand it’s made your job actually, actually pleasing. Don’t underestimate this one!

If this appears like your very best surroundings, learn on as a result of now we need to discuss you, and the way you’ll play an enormous half in altering folks’s lives.

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Now, again to you, our new Product Supervisor… 

What Success Seems Like: 

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

Wanting inward, you’ll additionally assist us evolve our techniques 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 arduous to create groups which are autonomous and outcome-focused, however we’ll by no means be ones to relaxation on our laurels. We count on you to talk up once you see a possibility to enhance our group and processes, and to embrace change as we proceed to develop.

You’ll have to: 

• Repeatedly ship actual worth to our customers. You’ll be able to each dwell two years forward of your workforce and assist 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 workforce to collectively develop a imaginative and prescient, prioritize tasks, and execute on technique.
• Perceive the person journey, not simply the one in our apps, but additionally the one in the actual world as customers resolve their monetary struggles.
• Be snug with a number of discovery and ideation methods in your quest to make YNAB persistently higher. You get pleasure from speaking to clients in person interviews and usefulness testing and have a knack for summarizing analysis in a concise approach for teammates. 
• Be a curious, persistent, and fast learner, staying forward of latest concepts, applied sciences, and different alternatives to assist YNAB customers take whole management of their cash, and possibly even sleep higher at evening.
• Perceive deeply that at YNAB “cross-functional” isn’t code for “designers and engineers.” We all know that nice concepts can come from wherever, so assist specialists and entrepreneurs are additionally members of our flat product groups. 
• Be taught 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 assist 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 carried out in asynchronous codecs. Sure, we like speaking to one another in real-time, however as a distant workforce, a lot of our collaboration is asynchronous and written.
• Be intensely curious. Interval.
• Oh, additionally, to not the exclusion of the rest, however you’re intensely inquisitive about how folks be taught, what motivates them, how they alter and develop habits, and the way conduct inside a product would possibly change conduct exterior it.
• Be snug talking the language of software program improvement and product design. In case 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 accomplice 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 right down to this: Your capability 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 endurance—not as a result of that’s good, however since you see this as crucial to our shared success. That mentioned, you realize your stuff and might 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 beneath by 11:59PM PDT on Sunday, June nineteenth. Agency. It’s an actual deadline. The type 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’d be an excellent match. Please restrict this part of the quilt letter to 1.5 pages at most.
  • Embody 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 looking for your subsequent firm or place?
    • What are your favourite and least favourite elements of your present job?
    • Inform us a couple of time once 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 simply too early to ship? How late is simply too late?
• You probably have a ready resume, connect it in PDF kind. In case you don’t have a resume since you aren’t even certain you’re seeking to change jobs, that’s superb! In that case, please simply embrace an off-the-cuff record of your work and schooling historical past or a hyperlink to your LinkedIn profile.
• Our purpose is to make the recruitment and hiring course of as accessible as potential. If we will help you with an accessibility want, e-mail us at [email protected] and point out the function you’re making use of for within the topic line. (Please word that we will solely reply to messages associated to lodging.)
• Although we all know it’s customary in some areas, we’d want it in case you didn’t share a headshot in your software supplies. Thanks!

We’re excited to listen to from you!

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P.P.S. In case you’re not on this place proper now, however know somebody who could be, we’d recognize you passing this alongside!