About Us and Why We’re Hiring
We’re YNAB (“why-nab”), a monetary schooling firm with a budgeting app. We train 4 Guidelines that create a brand new relationship with cash—one the place you’re keen on the way you spend and rejoice the way you save. For greater than a decade, individuals have been utilizing YNAB after which telling their buddies what a distinction it has made of their lives. Try our group on Fb, TikTok, or Reddit (actually!), or learn a few of our app critiques, and also you’ll see what we imply. We love constructing one thing that has an enormous constructive influence on individuals’s lives.
YNAB is rising, and so is our management crew. You’re the Director of Product we’re in search of should you perceive the cross-functional nature of product deeply. You’re adept at creating priorities and actions out of bigger concepts, serving to the required work cascade all through our product org and attaining desired outcomes. You are taking possession of integrating elements of the product org, together with technique, execution, administration, and communication.
When you’re the one we’re in search of, you’ve excessive requirements for all features of product growth. You nurture, evangelize, coach, and train these requirements—and maintain the group accountable for them. You don’t dictate roadmaps by fiat; you construct and nurture a system of empowered consultants and work alongside them to floor the perfect choices. You assist everybody to attain their greatest work—together with making the required errors alongside the way in which.
Necessities (these are actual, precise necessities)
It mainly goes with out saying that we’re in search of a pacesetter in product, however simply to be clear: That doesn’t imply you’ve held a sure title for a sure time. However we anticipate that you just’ll be most profitable on this function in case you have deep and wealthy expertise as a member of a product org (whether or not that be in product administration, design, or engineering), together with alternatives to have exercised consequential management.
On this function, you’ll have 4 principal tasks:
- Your major focus shall be organizational readability, so you need to have expertise looking for and speaking readability in all instructions from a product org.
- You’ll accomplice with others to tell our product technique and—most critically—lead on making it actionable, so it is advisable be a grasp strategic decision-maker who can join the dots between our high-level mission and imaginative and prescient, firm technique, and enterprise wants.
- You’ll foster a world-class product tradition at YNAB, which you understand out of your expertise means obsessing equally about our individuals and our product.
- Lastly, you’ll be chargeable for ensuring that everybody has the possibility to execute, particularly within the product administration crew, so you need to be expert at collaborating with others throughout all firm capabilities to determine key routines and practices that take away roadblocks.
That’s a brilliant temporary intro to what you’ll be engaged on. However first, it is advisable know should you’ll even like working with us. Let’s speak a bit about life at YNAB, after which we’ll go into extra element about what we’re in search of.
YNAB began in 2004 and we haven’t taken any exterior funding—we’re established, worthwhile, and on this for the lengthy haul. We have now one overarching requirement relating to becoming a member of our crew: our authentic Core Values Manifesto has to actually click on with you. When you’re nodding emphatically whereas studying it, you’ll most likely actually prefer it right here, and we are able to’t wait to listen to from you!
We dwell our Core Values each day at YNAB, and we imply it once we say we’re an equal alternative employer. We consider {that a} variety of backgrounds, skills, beliefs, and experiences is vital to our success, and we’re obsessed with making a welcoming, supportive, and collaborative surroundings for all staff. All are inspired to use as we proceed to develop a wise, hard-working, and various crew that loves working collectively to construct one thing that issues.
We additionally work actually exhausting, collectively, to make working at YNAB an incredible expertise, and we’re (humbly) proud to have acquired lots of Fortune’s “excellent place to work” awards during the last a number of years. We have now a crew stuffed with actually distinctive individuals—the sort you’ll be excited to work with. We’d like to introduce you to a couple of them!
Who you’ll be working with:
You’ll be a detailed accomplice to Todd, our CEO, in all the product course of. Todd began at YNAB in 2010 after a seek for a budgeting answer ended up in a dialog with YNAB’s founder, Jesse. One job led to a different, and since then he’s been part of creating and scaling up Assist, Product Design, and Product Administration at YNAB till, in February of 2021, he turned YNAB’s CEO. He lives in a small New England city together with his spouse and three youngsters, the place he retains life so simple as he can—consuming, sleeping, sitting, feeding the birds, chopping flowers, and ultrarunning.
You’ll perform and lead most intently with Buffy, our Director of Engineering, and Dylan, our Design Director.
Buffy has been a Buffy since earlier than Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and certainly one of her life regrets just isn’t shopping for buffy.com whereas she was in school. She loves a great debugging session. When she’s not cleansing up our infrastructure, she’s most likely knitting socks, biking, or in any other case frolicking outdoor along with her household. She’s a lifelong New Englander, so you’ll want to inform her you’re keen on vacationing “in Cape Cod” after which please, watch her face very rigorously for a response.
Dylan loves organizing design programs, obsessing over typographic particulars, and every thing in between. Above his desk (ahem, kitchen desk, it’s a small residence in spite of everything) sits an not noticeable letterpressed card with Dieter Rams’ 10 ideas of excellent design on it. In his spare time he’s most likely taking pictures or operating—typically on the identical time.
Honestly, you’ll have interactions and affect throughout all the product org, and also you’ll additionally cross paths with—effectively—most likely everybody else at YNAB. We will’t even checklist all of them, actually. However we are able to say that folks like Jacob and Brenda (a few our PMs), Kathryn and Jack (each designers), Sebastian and Lindsey (our Heads of Know-how and Advertising), and Eva and Rachel (our knowledge scientist and product operations specialist) positive are excited to work with you.
How You’ll Work at YNAB
Now that you just’ve met a few of your potential future teammates, let’s speak extra about YNAB as an organization. Right here’s how we function:
Reside The place You Need
We’re a distributed crew, so you may dwell and work wherever you need. Proximity doesn’t affect productiveness. Taylor, our Technical Fellow, was touring who-knows-where for a few years earlier than he settled again within the U.S. Need to up and transfer to France for a yr? Positive, Todd did that. Don’t like France? How about browsing in Hawaii, the place Rachel trotted off to for a month. Tulsa Distant? Can do. Product supervisor Megan formally lists “nomadic” as her house location on her Strava profile. The distant Canadian wilderness? We’ve received individuals there, too. Not all of us transfer round, however the truth that these of us have is completely okay as a result of we’re all adults. Simply be sure to have a willingness to make your location work for others, too. Oh, and a dependable web connection. Like, a very good one. Please.
Work 4 Days a Week
We’ve adopted a four-day work week (nonetheless 100% paid!) and infrequently work greater than that. There are events and seasons the place issues get busy and other people put some further time in—however then we encourage them to take some further break day, too. We work exhausting and sensible and we care deeply about what we do, however we additionally love our households and about 2,000 different issues. We have now perspective and, in the end, we expect it makes us—and our work—even higher.
Flex Your Work Schedule
We’re absolutely distant, so a variety of our work is completed asynchronously, however we love working collectively in real-time when it is sensible. We attempt to schedule most conferences between 12-3pm Japanese time (16:00-19:00 UTC) Monday-Thursday. Exterior of your conferences, we belief you to set your individual schedule by balancing your crew’s wants with your individual wants. You don’t have to ask for permission to take off early one afternoon to see the physician, or be “energetic” on Slack should you’re working deeply on a undertaking. We have a look at what you accomplish—not when or how lengthy you’re in entrance of a pc.
Take Trip (Significantly)
We wish you to take trip. In truth, we have now a minimal trip coverage of three weeks per yr, and we encourage you to take as much as 5 weeks (plus you get an additional two weeks for our company-wide December Break yearly). It’s vital to get loads of downtime and to get out and do one thing. We’ll look ahead to seeing footage of your adventures in our #office_wall Slack channel!
Meet Your Workforce
A few of our greatest work (and bonding!) is completed in individual. You’ll usually have the chance to fulfill together with your crew a couple of times a yr, at a small-team work-focused meetup or at our firm retreat. On the YNAB retreat, we like to atone for spreadsheets and powerpoints in a Finest Western convention room. Simply kidding. (It’s truly exhausting to jot down that sentence, even figuring out it’s such a great joke.) To date, we’ve gone to Costa Rica, a gigantic cabin within the mountains, a seashore home within the Outer Banks, a ranch in Montana, Laguna Seashore, and most lately, Palm Springs. We work collectively, play collectively, and reinforce the bonds we’ve made as a crew and firm. Each time we meet up, we depart refreshed, motivated, and excited for the yr forward collectively.
Up Your Sport
We’re critical about serving to you enhance your craft. It’s a very powerful work of our managers, and we price range for it, too (hey-o!). Assume conferences, on-line programs and subscriptions, devoted time away from work to study one thing new… It’s actually as much as you and your supervisor. However we like to see our individuals rising.
Different Advantages
Our crew is unfold everywhere in the world—principally in the USA, but additionally within the UK, Canada, Germany, Brazil, Mexico, and several other different nations. Workforce members who dwell within the US or UK are arrange as staff, and people who dwell in different nations set themselves up as impartial contractors. Irrespective of the place you reside, you’re eligible for our beneficiant paid household depart, trip, holidays, and sick time.
When you’re within the US, we additionally supply implausible well being, dental, and imaginative and prescient insurance coverage, the place we cowl 100% of the premium for you and your loved ones. No have to test your imaginative and prescient, you learn that proper—100%. (Though should you did have to test your imaginative and prescient, NBD, we’ve received you coated!) We even have a Conventional and Roth 401(okay) possibility, the place YNAB matches your contributions as much as six p.c, and matches vest instantly. (Are you a private finance junkie like our founder Jesse? He arrange YNAB’s 401k to have the bottom payment construction doable, the place all plan prices are paid by YNAB, not your retirement nest egg. The funding funds obtainable are implausible, passively-managed, extremely low-cost index funds. You’re not a PF junkie? Belief us, it’s superior.) When you’re within the UK, we additionally contribute six p.c to your pension.
Aggressive Compensation
At YNAB, we’re dedicated to equitable, market-driven, data-based compensation and we purpose to supply a aggressive advantages bundle to our crew members. The beginning wage for this function shall be between $130,000 – $180,000 USD yearly (with the highest of that vary reserved just for probably the most skilled candidates). If we resolve to make you a suggestion, we’ll decide probably the most acceptable quantity primarily based on what we find out about your expertise and competency for the function, after which we’ll make you our greatest supply and hope that you just settle for! When you be part of our crew, you’ll even be eligible for a increase every year and for our profit-share twice a yr. (YNAB wins, you win—that sort of factor.)
A Few Ultimate Tidbits
- When you begin, we DEMAND (in a pleasant, ALL CAPS IS YELLING means) that you just fill out your “Bucket Listing” spreadsheet with 50 gadgets. (That’s tougher than it sounds!)
- We like to rejoice with you if you full one thing in your bucket checklist—AND, we love utilizing your bucket checklist as inspiration in your greatest birthday current(s) ever.
- We wish you firing on all cylinders, so we’ll set you up with a shiny new laptop and exchange it each three years.
- Did we point out that YNAB makes an enormous, constructive distinction in individuals’s lives? It’s possible you’ll not assume that issues a lot, however then a couple of months down the highway you’ll understand it’s made your job actually, actually pleasing. Don’t underestimate this one!
If this appears like your ideally suited surroundings, learn on as a result of now we need to discuss you, and the way you’ll play an enormous half in altering individuals’s lives.
Now again to you, our new Director of Product….
As we talked about earlier, you’ll be chargeable for offering organizational readability and informing actionable technique, whereas fostering a world-class product tradition and ensuring that everybody has an opportunity to execute. That’s it, huh? We consider in you.
Let’s discuss our imaginative and prescient for every of these somewhat bit extra.
To offer organizational readability, you’ll:
- Facilitate key communication and choice making buildings within the product org.
- Join features of imaginative and prescient to technique to concrete items of product work, all over our product growth course of.
- Present constant updates and suggestions on the execution of product work, utilizing metrics which are acceptable to our strategic objectives.
- Evangelize the aim, success, challenges, and desires of the product throughout the corporate.
To tell actionable technique, you’ll:
- Act as a accomplice and sounding board for the chief crew, and our CEO Todd specifically, to develop a radical understanding of our technique and its implications.
- Create and preserve alternative roadmaps on the stage between firm technique and crew problem-spaces.
- Work with others to develop, talk, and make clear measures of success for our product, information us towards them, and construct collective accountability for attaining them.
- Have plans and contingency plans for the long-term growth of the product past the quarter or the yr. Prioritize work primarily based on the long-term plan, together with what we need to emphasize sooner or later and what we’ll seemingly sundown.
- Take possession and act the place empowered to, and hand-off the place it is advisable.
- Mine for battle, collaborate, and act as a sounding-board on product imaginative and prescient and technique.
To foster a world-class product tradition, you’ll:
- Body our choices and actions within the context of key, enduring concepts.
- Set up the buildings, practices, and expectations essential to do product effectively. (Significantly, that’s a complete job proper there.)
- Present mentorship and training to direct stories and to particular person contributors all through the group.
- Multiply the experience and fervour of others to assist them lead on vital features of product tradition.
- Construct connections throughout the various components of capital-p Product, from design to product administration, engineering, knowledge science, product advertising and marketing, buyer help, supply, and extra.
- Facilitate the change of concepts in each formal and casual methods.
- Preserve and enhance upon the options of our product course of which are distinctive to us.
To verify everybody has the possibility to execute, you’ll:
- Work most intently with the product administration crew for management, administration, and accountability.
- Work with different purposeful leaders on useful resource allocation—at common cadences but additionally when the necessity arises off-cycle.
- Work hand-in-hand with Rachel, our ProductOps Specialist, on routines and communication inside the product org.
- Use 1:1’s, retros, and different instruments to constantly mine for blockers, obstacles, and bottlenecks within the group. Oh, and clearly, clear them.
- Eat standing updates extra constantly than anybody else within the firm (and all people is fairly good at this, so excessive bar!).
- (Actually, to checklist the bullets right here is perhaps a step overboard. Product organizations are extremely advanced, which you understand, even once we’ve made and stored them so simple as will be.)
That’s a whopping twenty-two-and-a-half bullets, however let’s nonetheless say that your success as our Director of Product comes right down to your capacity to method product growth as holistic, simultaneous, problem-solving of each consumer and enterprise objectives. You see the nuance in every thing, but additionally convey readability out of it. You handle to empower and nurture the individuals in our product group—whereas additionally offering a transparent and compelling course. As a result of (if we haven’t but spilled sufficient metaphorical ink on this concept) we work collaboratively right here from backside to prime—not as a result of that’s good, however as a result of we see this as vital to our shared success. And inside that, we all know you understand your stuff and might eloquently and logically clarify choices and, not for nothing, make them when the rubber hits the highway. Full cease.
Need fewer phrases for a abstract? You’re amazingly real and genuinely wonderful, and together with your assist and management, our product and product group shall be with out peer.
The best way to Apply
Please apply at this hyperlink earlier than Sunday, September tenth at 11:59pm PST.
We’re excited to listen to from you!
P.S. When you’re not on this place proper now, however know somebody who is perhaps, we’d recognize you passing this alongside!