Director of Product, YNAB
$130-180k
Expert level
Remote from Canada, Europe, UK, US
Paid app, free classes and personalised support for financial education
Job no longer available
Paid app, free classes and personalised support for financial education
101-200 employees
FintechB2CLifestylePersonal healthEducationPersonal financeMental healthFinancial ServicesSaaSSocial Impact
Job no longer available
$130-180k
Expert level
Remote from Canada, Europe, UK, US
101-200 employees
FintechB2CLifestylePersonal healthEducationPersonal financeMental healthFinancial ServicesSaaSSocial Impact
Company mission
To help people get good with money, so they never have to worry about money again. Join us!
Role
Who you are
- YNAB is growing, and so is our leadership team. You’re the Director of Product we’re looking for if you understand the cross-functional nature of product deeply
- You’re adept at creating priorities and actions out of larger ideas, helping the necessary work cascade throughout our product org and achieving desired outcomes
- You take ownership of integrating components of the product org, including strategy, execution, management, and communication
- If you’re the one we’re looking for, you have high standards for all aspects of product development. You nurture, evangelize, coach, and teach these standards—and hold the organization accountable for them
- You don’t dictate roadmaps by fiat; you build and nurture a system of empowered experts and work alongside them to surface the best decisions. You help everyone to achieve their best work—including making the necessary mistakes along the way
- It basically goes without saying that we’re looking for a leader in product, but just to be clear: That doesn’t mean you’ve held a certain title for a certain time
- But we expect that you’ll be most successful in this role if you have deep and rich experience as a member of a product org (whether that be in product management, design, or engineering), including opportunities to have exercised consequential leadership
- Your primary focus will be organizational clarity, so you should have experience seeking and communicating clarity in all directions from a product org
- You’ll partner with others to inform our product strategy and—most critically—lead on making it actionable, so you need to be a master strategic decision-maker who can connect the dots between our high-level mission and vision, company strategy, and business needs
- You’ll foster a world-class product culture at YNAB, which you know from your experience means obsessing equally about our people and our product
- Finally, you’ll be responsible for making sure that everyone has the chance to execute, especially in the product management team, so you should be skilled at collaborating with others across all company functions to establish key routines and practices that remove roadblocks
What the job involves
- To provide organizational clarity, you'll:
- Facilitate key communication and decision making structures in the product org
- Connect aspects of vision to strategy to concrete pieces of product work, all the way through our product development process
- Provide consistent updates and feedback on the execution of product work, using metrics that are appropriate to our strategic goals
- Evangelize the purpose, success, challenges, and needs of the product across the company
- To inform actionable strategy, you'll:
- Act as a partner and sounding board for the executive team, and our CEO Todd in particular, to develop a thorough understanding of our strategy and its implications
- Create and maintain opportunity roadmaps at the level between company strategy and team problem-spaces
- Work with others to develop, communicate, and clarify measures of success for our product, guide us toward them, and build collective accountability for achieving them
- Have plans and contingency plans for the long-term development of the product beyond the quarter or the year. Prioritize work based on the long-term plan, including what we want to emphasize in the future and what we’ll likely sunset
- Take ownership and act where empowered to, and hand-off where you need to
- Mine for conflict, collaborate, and act as a sounding-board on product vision and strategy
- To foster a world-class product culture, you'll:
- Frame our decisions and actions in the context of key, enduring ideas
- Establish the structures, practices, and expectations necessary to do product well. (Seriously, that’s a whole job right there.)
- Provide mentorship and coaching to direct reports and to individual contributors throughout the organization
- Multiply the expertise and passion of others to help them lead on important aspects of product culture
- Build connections across the diverse elements of capital-p Product, from design to product management, engineering, data science, product marketing, customer support, delivery, and more
- Facilitate the exchange of ideas in both formal and informal ways
- Maintain and improve upon the features of our product process that are unique to us
- To make sure everyone has the chance to execute, you'll:
- Work most closely with the product management team for leadership, management, and accountability
- Work with other functional leaders on resource allocation—at regular cadences but also when the need arises off-cycle
- Work hand-in-hand with Rachel, our ProductOps Specialist, on routines and communication within the product org
- Use 1:1’s, retros, and other tools to continuously mine for blockers, obstacles, and bottlenecks in the organization. Oh, and obviously, clear them
- Consume status updates more consistently than anyone else in the company (and everybody is pretty good at this, so high bar!)
- You’ll function and lead most closely with Buffy, our Director of Engineering, and Dylan, our Design Director
- We’ve adopted a four-day work week (still 100% paid!) and rarely work more than that. There are occasions and seasons where things get busy and people put some extra time in—but then we encourage them to take some extra time off, too
- We’re fully remote, so a lot of our work is done asynchronously, but we love working together in real-time when it makes sense. We try to schedule most meetings between 12-3pm Eastern time (16:00-19:00 UTC) Monday-Thursday. Outside of your meetings, we trust you to set your own schedule by balancing your team’s needs with your own needs
- You don’t need to ask for permission to take off early one afternoon to see the doctor, or be “active” on Slack if you’re working deeply on a project. We look at what you accomplish—not when or how long you're in front of a computer
Application process
- A written questionnaire (mid-Sept)
- First video interview with 2-3 team members (early Oct)
- A paid, skills-based project and a second video interview to review it together (mid-Oct)
- Third video interview with another 2-3 team members (late Oct)
- Fourth video interview with some of our executive team members (early Nov)
- In-person interview with Todd (mid/late Nov)
- Decision made (early Dec)
Our take
The average American worker has been feeling the strain over recent years. Rising household debt, poor financial literacy, and a complex labor market has helped contribute to a taxing period for finances. Now, we’re seeing more Americans than ever start budgeting and engaging with personal finance apps. You Need a Budget (YNAB) is one of them.
The YNAB budgeting platform has been up and running for nearly two decades now, and consistently wins a place in ‘budgeting app’ shortlists. It helps users create a budget and spending plan, as well as offering digital resources like live classes.
Whilst YNAB was early in developing this spread of features, other competitors were quick to follow suit, including the likes of Mint or Honeydue. YNAB has, however, secured a strong reputation in the growing sector. Whilst the company may need to expand to survive, YNAB is for now one of the leading players.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company benefits
- 4-Day Work Week (every Friday off).
- Minimum vacation policy of three weeks per year. Five weeks feels about right (plus two extra weeks for our company-wide December break).
- Professional development stipend.
- 100% Remote, Worldwide.
- Generous paid parental leave.
- New computer when you start, and replacements every 3 years.
- Team meetups once or twice a year, at a small-team work-focused meetup or at our company retreat.
- Flexible work schedule. Outside of your meetings, we trust you to set your own schedule by balancing your team’s needs with your own needs. We look at what you accomplish—not when or how long you're in front of a computer.
- Purpose. Did we mention that YNAB makes a huge, positive difference in people’s lives?
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance, where we cover 100% of the premium for you and your family. 🇺🇸
- 401k (Traditional and Roth) with 6% match and immediate vesting. 🇺🇸
- 6% pension contribution. 🇬🇧
Company HQ
Lehi, UT
Leadership
Jesse Mecham
(Founder)https://www.crunchbase.com/person/jesse-mecham
Taylor Brown
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