Modern Product Manager - Payroll

About Rise

Rise is Canada’s complete people management solution that gives employers everything they need to build loyal and productive teams—all in one place. We collaborate and co-create to build solutions that completely change how companies of all shapes and sizes manage their payroll, scheduling, time tracking, group benefits, recruitment, onboarding, and more. At Rise, we’re changing how work happens and how people work. We’d love for you to join us and experience the most positive, challenging, and transformative part of your career.

About the role

Vacations, benefits, perks, office parties and team events — none of that matters if employees don't get paid accurately and on time. Great employee experience starts with payroll, and thousands of Canadian businesses rely on Rise to get it right. We’re looking for a modern Product Manager to join our team and lead the evolution of our most popular product. If you have a proven track record of end-to-end product development, from discovery through to launch, and don’t flinch at a compliance-heavy domain, this role is for you. You'll also have the opportunity to shape the future of payroll in the age of AI, reducing manual work and helping our clients spend less time on admin and more time on their people. As a fast-growing organization, Rise is a great place for an entrepreneurial self-starter who's comfortable with significant autonomy and ownership and ready to make a meaningful impact on the lives of millions of working Canadians.

The day-to-day

• Discover and define problems and opportunities, striking a balance between keeping existing customers happy and creating differentiated innovation that accelerates our growth.
• Prioritize and sequence six-week projects and other small improvements, resulting in a dynamic product roadmap.
• Use evidence and customer stories to get buy-in from your teammates, influence stakeholders, and evangelize the product vision.
• Pair up with a Product Designer and a team of Engineers to collaboratively solve customer problems and deliver them within business constraints.
• Identify opportunities to apply AI and automation to reduce manual effort for clients and internal teams.
• Help empower Rise's Go-To-Market and Client Experience teams to effectively bring on new customers and keep the ones we have.

About you

• 3+ years of Product Management experience — SaaS or fintech preferred.
• Excellent communication skills: written, verbal, presentations, demos, etc.
• Great logical, analytical, and abstract thinking skills.
• Demonstrated experience in identifying, breaking down, and prioritizing complex and ambiguous problems within strategic and resource constraints.
• Demonstrated experience collaborating with Design and Engineering in a fast-paced, iterative environment to deliver exceptional solutions to customer problems.
• In-depth customer development, user research, and interviewing skills.
• Experience in influencing senior stakeholders and leading without formal authority.
• Proven ability to use data to inform decisions and optimize product performance.
• Experience using AI to streamline and automate work tasks.
• An entrepreneurial spirit, a growth mindset, and a team-focused mentality.
• Bonus: Familiarity with Canadian payroll.

What Rise offers

Rise is all about creating a positive company culture, both for our clients and our employees. We believe that happiness isn’t the cause of employee engagement, it’s the result. This position offers $90,000-110,000 in base salary, based on experience, plus stock options. We offer a remote work environment. On occasion, we may meet as a team or one-on-one in person. You'll get access to modern tools to get work done: ChatGPT, Gemini, ProductBoard, Figma, and more. Rise believes that time off is just as important as time spent working. We offer 3 weeks of paid vacation, flexible personal wellness days, as well as one day off for your birthday and your work anniversary. We support your growth with a personal $1,000 learning and development budget to take courses, attend conferences, webinars, you name it! We offer no-wait benefits. This means that starting your first day, you have access to our comprehensive benefits package, which includes dental, eye care, and $2,000 in counselling coverage, among many other great health benefits. At Rise, we care more about where you’re headed, not where you’ve been. We encourage people of all ages, backgrounds, identities, and orientations to apply.