Staff Product Manager, Homebase
Platform
$208-257k
US Salary dependent on location; Toronto: CA$188.5K – CA$222K + Equity
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Employee scheduling software for small businesses
Open for applications
Employee scheduling software for small businesses
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$208-257k
US Salary dependent on location; Toronto: CA$188.5K – CA$222K + Equity
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To make local business teams unstoppable.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of product management experience, with significant time spent on platform, infrastructure, or highly technical product areas
- Strong technical background (e.g., prior engineering experience or deep technical fluency working with engineers)
- Hands-on experience with authentication, authorization, identity systems, or security-adjacent domains, including evaluating third-party solutions and making build vs. buy recommendations
- Proven ability to influence without authority and partner effectively with senior engineering leaders
- Comfort operating in ambiguous problem spaces and defining structure where none exists
- Demonstrated ability to build for scale, reliability, security, and customer experience, not just internal-facing capabilities
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, especially for technical audiences
- AI Fluency: Experience using AI tools to improve product workflows, analyze tradeoffs, or increase execution velocity
- Ability to collaborate in the office weekly on Tuesdays and Wednesdays at a Homebase hub
- Experience comes in many forms—so if you're excited about this role, even if you don’t meet 100% of the qualifications, we encourage you to apply!
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Staff Product Manager, Platform to partner closely with engineering leadership and help shape the core platform that underpins Homebase as we scale
- This role is critical to our ability to grow securely, reliably, and quickly
- You’ll own foundational domains including authentication, authorization, identity, and core business platform capabilities, ensuring they are resilient, extensible, high quality
- This is a highly technical PM role—ideal for someone who loves working at the intersection of product, engineering, and security, and who thrives in ambiguity while building for the long term
- Co-own the platform roadmap in close partnership with engineering leadership for authentication, authorization, identity, and shared business capabilities, balancing immediate needs with long-term scale, security, and developer velocity
- Partner with Engineering and leadership to help define platform strategy, direction, and roadmap
- Collaborating closely with cross-functional stakeholders to ensure business-critical systems scale reliably and meet company needs
- Translate complex technical concepts into clear product direction, requirements, success metrics, and customer-facing experience implications
- Lead cross-functional alignment across Product, Engineering, Security, Infrastructure, and Design to ensure platform decisions consider both system integrity and end-user experience
- Define and track outcomes related to reliability, security posture, developer velocity, and scalability
- Partner with Engineering to define and operationalize platform KPIs, using metrics to drive prioritization and uncover gaps in capabilities and services
- Proactively identify risks, gaps, and opportunities in our platform architecture as the company grows, including build vs. buy decisions and vendor evaluations for platform capabilities
- Own the end-to-end experience for customer-facing platform surfaces (e.g., auth flows, permissions, identity-related UX)
- Ensure platform experiences are intuitive, trustworthy, and aligned with Homebase’s product quality bar
- Partner with Product Design and Research to validate platform-driven user experiences
- Advocate for customers while balancing technical constraints and long-term platform health
- Use AI tools to accelerate product discovery, requirements clarity, and decision-making—and continuously improve how platform PM work gets done
Application process
- Meet the Talent Acquisition team
- Meet the Hiring Manager
- Participate in a Talent Showcase
- Meet Cross-functional Partners
- Background Check + Offer Stage
- Welcome to the team, Homie 🎉
Our take
Homebase provide employees and businesses with time tracking applications, with a range of other HR functionality built in. Homebase automates the process of managing employee scheduling, and also helps companies improve internal communications.
The company contributes to the reduction of paperwork in an office by turning an array of devices into time clocks that track hours and overtime, while also providing payroll support. This makes it easier for companies to remain in sync, running a more efficient operation as a result.
Given that Homebase's customer base of small businesses is not able to pay a lot for its product, scale is the key driver in the company's future success. With over 100,000 customers already, its significant venture capital backing will ensure that the company will be able to grow (notably it's investing in Canadian talent) to provide its services on a profitable scale.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
29% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Apr 2024
$60m
SERIES D
Nov 2021
$30m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $189m
Company benefits
- Stock Options
- Paid parental leave
- Generous paid time off options
- Offsites, customer days & social events
- Work from Anywhere Month
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- 401(k) matching program
- Pre-tax commuter benefits
- Snacks + lunch on us at hub offices
- MasterClass at Work for ongoing learning
Company HQ
Yerba Buena, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
John Waldmann
(Founder & CEO)BA Political Science at Stanford. Associate at Boston Consulting Group, then KKR Capstone, before founding Homebase in 2014.
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