Program Manager, Product

Who We Are At Justworks, you’ll enjoy a welcoming and casual environment, great benefits, wellness program offerings, company retreats, and the ability to interact with and learn from leaders in the startup community. We work hard and care about our most prized asset - our people. We’re helping businesses get off the ground by enabling them to focus on running their business. We solve HR issues. We’re data-driven and never stop iterating. If you’d like to work in a supportive, entrepreneurial environment, are interested in building something meaningful and having fun while doing it, we’d love to hear from you. We're united by shared goals and shared motivations at Justworks. These are best summed up in our company values, which are reflected in our product and in our team. Our Values If this sounds like you, you’ll fit right in. Department Technology Strategy Operations About the team This role reports to the Manager of Program Management under the Technology Strategy Operations team. Our Program Management function plays a vital role in keeping Justworks’ Technology Division – comprising Product, Design, Engineering, and Data – focused and connected. We connect dots and break silos across teams by maintaining an effective operating cadence, managing strategic initiatives, and leading special projects that help translate strategy into execution. Who You Are You’re excited by the idea of leading initiatives across the organization and driving impact. Everything you deliver is backed by a solid strategy. You maintain confidence throughout your work while staying committed to getting things done. ​​As a Program Manager on the Technology team, you will work closely with Product, Design, Engineering, and Data, in partnership with teams across Revenue, Operations, and Legal, to accelerate the delivery of high-impact initiatives that are critical to driving our strategy and alignment with company goals. You will drive product initiatives forward that have multiple stakeholders, competing deadlines, and many moving parts.In this role, you’ll act as a bridge between functions and teams, helping connect work across the organization and ensuring clarity, alignment, and follow-through. You will leverage and apply program management frameworks to support effective execution, manage dependencies, and drive accountability and delivery across initiatives within a core product domain. You are comfortable bringing structure to ambiguity, tracking progress against plans, and escalating risks or trade-offs as needed to keep work moving forward. You thrive in cross-functional environments and are motivated by seeing complex initiatives translate into real outcomes. Your Success Profile What You Will Work On As a Program Manager on the Technology team, you will be responsible for driving execution across one or more key initiatives within a core product or business domain. You will partner closely with Technology professionals and cross-functional leaders to ensure work is well-coordinated, risks are managed, and outcomes are delivered. You will: Lead the execution of cross-functional programs and initiatives, partnering closely with Product, Design, Engineering, Data, and other stakeholders, including Operations, Compliance, Customer Success, Product Marketing, and Sales Support program planning and definition by determining program goals, scope, workstreams, and success metrics in partnership with functional leaders Participate in and help drive discovery activities to understand business needs, constraints, and dependencies, translating findings into clear plans, milestones, deliverables, and timelines Coordinate work across multiple teams, tracking dependencies, risks, and progress to keep initiatives moving forward Facilitate program operating rhythms such as working sessions, check-ins, milestone reviews, and retrospectives Develop, maintain, and own core program artifacts, including project plans, status updates, docum ... (truncated, view full listing at source)