Product Manager Lead

Description Papaya Global is a rapidly growing, award-winning B2B tech unicorn with an ambitious mission to revolutionize the payroll & payments industry. With over $400M raised from multiple tier-one investors, our innovative technology provides a comprehensive solution for managing global workforces, encompassing everything from hiring and onboarding to managing and paying employees in over 160 countries. We are seeking a Product Manager Lead who will be responsible for leading a team of product managers, product planning, delivery, and marketing throughout the product lifecycle. You will: Maximize clarity by bringing a data-driven mindset to setting goals and milestones. Conceptualize and analyze different parts of our infrastructure and how they interrelate. Inspire the company by creating bold, game-changing ideas and delivering them across a set of customer problems. Elicit non-obvious customer needs, synthesize research to gain a deep understanding and narrow definition of a problem. Co-create with teammates to deliver high-quality results. Speak and write with clarity and comfort in deep technical discussions with engineers about the pros and cons of different approaches. Lead and mentor a team of product managers, driving alignment, execution quality, and professional growth across the product organization. Leverage AI-driven tools and methodologies to improve product planning, prioritization, data analysis, and decision-making across multiple product domains. Use AI capabilities to enhance synthesis of customer insights, market research, and technical complexity into clear product direction and strategy. Drive adoption of AI-assisted workflows within the product organization to improve efficiency, experimentation velocity, and product quality. Requirements 7+ years of experience as Product Manager or Technical Product Manager at world-class SaaS companies with significant growth and best-in-class product standards. 2+ years of experience leading product management teams. Product experience in building and launching highly scalable and reliable services is a plus. High bar across all dimensions—from personal contributions to team performance to product quality. Strong bias toward action, collaboration, and clear communication with a focus on simplification of complex topics. Hands-on, execution-oriented mindset with willingness to deep dive into technical and product challenges. Customer-centric mindset with proven ability to solve complex product problems and drive customer satisfaction. BA/BS in Computer Science or related field. Strong technical understanding from high-level architecture down to system-level considerations. Proven ability to leverage and implement AI tools in product leadership, including building AI-enabled workflows for strategy, prioritization, data-driven decision-making, and cross-functional execution, as well as driving adoption of AI across product processes at scale.