About Us and Why We’re Hiring
We’re YNAB (“why-nab”), a monetary training firm with a budgeting app. We educate 4 Guidelines that create a brand new relationship with cash—one the place you’re keen on the way you spend and have a good time 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. Take a look at our group on Fb, TikTok, or Reddit (actually!), or learn a few of our app evaluations, and also you’ll see what we imply. We love constructing one thing that has an enormous optimistic affect on individuals’s lives.
YNAB is rising, and so is our management group. 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.
In case you’re the one we’re in search of, you will have excessive requirements for all elements of product improvement. You nurture, evangelize, coach, and educate 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 selections. You assist everybody to realize their finest work—together with making the required errors alongside the best way.
Necessities (these are actual, precise necessities)
It principally goes with out saying that we’re in search of a frontrunner 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 simply’ll be most profitable on this position if 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 position, you’ll have 4 major duties:
- Your main focus will probably be organizational readability, so it’s best to have expertise in search of and speaking readability in all instructions from a product org.
- You’ll companion with others to tell our product technique and—most critically—lead on making it actionable, so you want to 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 liable for ensuring that everybody has the prospect to execute, particularly within the product administration group, so you need to be expert at collaborating with others throughout all firm features to ascertain key routines and practices that take away roadblocks.
That’s an excellent temporary intro to what you’ll be engaged on. However first, you want to 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’ve one overarching requirement on the subject of becoming a member of our group: our unique Core Values Manifesto has to essentially click on with you. In case you’re nodding emphatically whereas studying it, you’ll most likely actually prefer it right here, and we will’t wait to listen to from you!
We stay our Core Values day by day at YNAB, and we imply it after we say we’re an equal alternative employer. We imagine {that a} variety of backgrounds, skills, beliefs, and experiences is crucial to our success, and we’re keen about 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 group that loves working collectively to construct one thing that issues.
We additionally work actually onerous, collectively, to make working at YNAB an incredible expertise, and we’re (humbly) proud to have acquired a lot of Fortune’s “good spot to work” awards over the past a number of years. We’ve a group filled with actually distinctive individuals—the type 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 an in depth companion to Todd, our CEO, in your complete 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 growing and scaling up Assist, Product Design, and Product Administration at YNAB till, in February of 2021, he grew to become YNAB’s CEO. He lives in a small New England city along with his spouse and three youngsters, the place he retains life so simple as he can—consuming, sleeping, sitting, feeding the birds, slicing flowers, and ultrarunning.
You’ll operate 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 one among her life regrets just isn’t shopping for buffy.com whereas she was in faculty. She loves an excellent 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 make sure you inform her you’re keen on vacationing “in Cape Cod” after which please, watch her face very fastidiously for a response.
Dylan loves organizing design techniques, obsessing over typographic particulars, and the whole lot in between. Above his desk (ahem, kitchen desk, it’s a small condominium in any case) sits an not easily seen letterpressed card with Dieter Rams’ 10 ideas of excellent design on it. In his spare time he’s most likely taking photographs or working—typically on the similar time.
In truth, you’ll have interactions and affect throughout your complete product org, and also you’ll additionally cross paths with—nicely—most likely everybody else at YNAB. We are able to’t even listing all of them, actually. However we will say that individuals like Jacob and Brenda (a few our PMs), Kathryn and Jack (each designers), Sebastian and Lindsey (our Heads of Expertise and Advertising and marketing), and Eva and Rachel (our information scientist and product operations specialist) certain are excited to work with you.
How You’ll Work at YNAB
Now that you simply’ve met a few of your potential future teammates, let’s speak extra about YNAB as an organization. Right here’s how we function:
Dwell The place You Need
We’re a distributed group, so you’ll be able to stay 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. Wish 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 dwelling location on her Strava profile. The distant Canadian wilderness? We’ve bought individuals there, too. Not all of us transfer round, however the truth that these people 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 folks put some further time in—however then we encourage them to take some further day off, too. We work onerous and good and we care deeply about what we do, however we additionally love our households and about 2,000 different issues. We’ve perspective and, in the end, we predict it makes us—and our work—even higher.
Flex Your Work Schedule
We’re absolutely distant, so loads 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. Outdoors of your conferences, we belief you to set your individual schedule by balancing your group’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 “lively” on Slack should you’re working deeply on a venture. We have a look at what you accomplish—not when or how lengthy you’re in entrance of a pc.
Take Trip (Significantly)
We would like you to take trip. In reality, we’ve got 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 photos of your adventures in our #office_wall Slack channel!
Meet Your Group
A few of our greatest work (and bonding!) is completed in particular person. You’ll typically have the chance to fulfill together with your group 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 compensate for spreadsheets and powerpoints in a Finest Western convention room. Simply kidding. (It’s truly onerous to put in writing that sentence, even realizing it’s such an excellent joke.) Up to now, we’ve gone to Costa Rica, a gigantic cabin within the mountains, a seaside home within the Outer Banks, a ranch in Montana, Laguna Seashore, and most just lately, Palm Springs. We work collectively, play collectively, and reinforce the bonds we’ve made as a group and firm. Each time we meet up, we go away refreshed, motivated, and excited for the yr forward collectively.
Up Your Sport
We’re severe about serving to you enhance your craft. It’s an important work of our managers, and we finances 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 group is unfold all around the world—principally in america, but additionally within the UK, Canada, Germany, Brazil, Mexico, and a number of other different international locations. Group members who stay within the US or UK are arrange as staff, and people who stay in different international locations set themselves up as impartial contractors. Irrespective of the place you reside, you’re eligible for our beneficiant paid household go away, trip, holidays, and sick time.
In case you’re within the US, we additionally supply improbable 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 bought you lined!) We even have a Conventional and Roth 401(ok) choice, 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 charge construction doable, the place all plan prices are paid by YNAB, not your retirement nest egg. The funding funds out there are improbable, passively-managed, extremely low-cost index funds. You’re not a PF junkie? Belief us, it’s superior.) In case 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 intention to supply a aggressive advantages package deal to our group members. The beginning wage for this position will probably be between $130,000 – $180,000 USD yearly (with the highest of that vary reserved just for essentially the most skilled candidates). If we resolve to make you a suggestion, we’ll decide essentially the most acceptable quantity based mostly on what we learn about your expertise and competency for the position, after which we’ll make you our greatest supply and hope that you simply settle for! In case you be a part of our group, you’ll even be eligible for a elevate annually and for our profit-share twice a yr. (YNAB wins, you win—that sort of factor.)
A Few Remaining Tidbits
- When you begin, we DEMAND (in a pleasant, ALL CAPS IS YELLING manner) that you simply fill out your “Bucket Checklist” spreadsheet with 50 objects. (That’s tougher than it sounds!)
- We like to have a good time with you if you full one thing in your bucket listing—AND, we love utilizing your bucket listing as inspiration in your finest birthday current(s) ever.
- We would like you firing on all cylinders, so we’ll set you up with a shiny new pc and change it each three years.
- Did we point out that YNAB makes an enormous, optimistic distinction in individuals’s lives? Chances are you’ll not assume that issues a lot, however then just a few months down the street you’ll understand it’s made your job actually, actually pleasing. Don’t underestimate this one!
If this appears like your superb surroundings, learn on as a result of now we wish to speak about 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 liable 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 imagine in you.
Let’s speak about our imaginative and prescient for every of these a little bit bit extra.
To offer organizational readability, you’ll:
- Facilitate key communication and resolution making constructions within the product org.
- Join elements of imaginative and prescient to technique to concrete items of product work, all over our product improvement 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 companion and sounding board for the chief group, and our CEO Todd particularly, to develop a radical understanding of our technique and its implications.
- Create and preserve alternative roadmaps on the stage between firm technique and group 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 improvement of the product past the quarter or the yr. Prioritize work based mostly on the long-term plan, together with what we wish to emphasize sooner or later and what we’ll probably sundown.
- Take possession and act the place empowered to, and hand-off the place you want to.
- 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 selections and actions within the context of key, enduring concepts.
- Set up the constructions, practices, and expectations essential to do product nicely. (Significantly, that’s a complete job proper there.)
- Present mentorship and training to direct reviews and to particular person contributors all through the group.
- Multiply the experience and fervour of others to assist them lead on vital elements of product tradition.
- Construct connections throughout the varied parts of capital-p Product, from design to product administration, engineering, information science, product advertising and marketing, buyer help, supply, and extra.
- Facilitate the change of concepts in each formal and casual methods.
- Keep and enhance upon the options of our product course of which are distinctive to us.
To ensure everybody has the prospect to execute, you’ll:
- Work most intently with the product administration group for management, administration, and accountability.
- Work with different useful 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 throughout 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.
- Devour standing updates extra persistently than anybody else within the firm (and everyone is fairly good at this, so excessive bar!).
- (Actually, to listing the bullets right here may be a step overboard. Product organizations are extremely complicated, which you understand, even after 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 all the way down to your means to strategy product improvement as holistic, simultaneous, problem-solving of each person and enterprise objectives. You see the nuance in the whole lot, but additionally carry readability out of it. You handle to empower and nurture the individuals in our product group—whereas additionally offering a transparent and compelling route. 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 crucial to our shared success. And within that, we all know you understand your stuff and might eloquently and logically clarify selections and, not for nothing, make them when the rubber hits the street. Full cease.
Need fewer phrases for a abstract? You’re amazingly real and genuinely superb, and together with your assist and management, our product and product group will probably be with out peer.
How you can 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. In case you’re not on this place proper now, however know somebody who may be, we’d respect you passing this alongside!
