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 like the way you spend and rejoice the way you save. For greater than a decade, individuals have been utilizing YNAB after which telling their associates 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 opinions, and also you’ll see what we imply. We love constructing one thing that has an enormous constructive affect on individuals’s lives.
YNAB is rising, and so is our management staff. 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 mandatory work cascade all through our product org and reaching desired outcomes. You’re taking possession of integrating parts of the product org, together with technique, execution, administration, and communication.
In the event you’re the one we’re in search of, you might have excessive requirements for all elements of product growth. 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 specialists and work alongside them to floor the perfect selections. You assist everybody to realize their greatest work—together with making the mandatory 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 when you’ve got 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 fundamental tasks:
- Your main focus can 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 accomplice with others to tell our product technique and—most critically—lead on making it actionable, so you’ll 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 recognize out of your expertise means obsessing equally about our individuals and our product.
- Lastly, you’ll be answerable for ensuring that everybody has the possibility to execute, particularly within the product administration staff, so you ought to be expert at collaborating with others throughout all firm features to ascertain key routines and practices that take away roadblocks.
That’s a brilliant temporary intro to what you’ll be engaged on. However first, you’ll 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 outdoors funding—we’re established, worthwhile, and on this for the lengthy haul. We’ve one overarching requirement in terms of becoming a member of our staff: our authentic Core Values Manifesto has to essentially click on with you. In the event 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 reside our Core Values each day at YNAB, and we imply it once we say we’re an equal alternative employer. We imagine {that a} range of backgrounds, talents, beliefs, and experiences is essential to our success, and we’re enthusiastic about making a welcoming, supportive, and collaborative setting for all staff. All are inspired to use as we proceed to develop a sensible, hard-working, and numerous staff 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 obtained a lot of Fortune’s “good spot to work” awards over the past a number of years. We’ve a staff 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 a detailed accomplice to Todd, our CEO, in the whole 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 Help, 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, chopping 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 considered one of her life regrets will not be shopping for buffy.com whereas she was in school. She loves debugging session. When she’s not cleansing up our infrastructure, she’s most likely knitting socks, biking, or in any other case frolicking open air along with her household. She’s a lifelong New Englander, so make sure to inform her you like 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 every part in between. Above his desk (ahem, kitchen desk, it’s a small residence in any case) sits an not easily seen letterpressed card with Dieter Rams’ 10 rules of fine design on it. In his spare time he’s most likely taking photographs or operating—typically on the identical time.
In truth, you’ll have interactions and affect throughout the whole product org, and also you’ll additionally cross paths with—effectively—most likely everybody else at YNAB. We are able to’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 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 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:
Dwell The place You Need
We’re a distributed staff, so you’ll be able to reside 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? Certain, 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 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 you 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 additional time in—however then we encourage them to take some additional 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’ve perspective and, in the end, we expect 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 smart. We attempt to schedule most conferences between 12-3pm Jap time (16:00-19:00 UTC) Monday-Thursday. Outdoors of your conferences, we belief you to set your personal schedule by balancing your staff’s wants with your personal 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 challenge. We have a look at what you accomplish—not when or how lengthy you’re in entrance of a pc.
Take Trip (Critically)
We would like you to take trip. The truth is, 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 necessary 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 individual. You’ll typically have the chance to satisfy together with your staff 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 really exhausting to put in writing that sentence, even realizing it’s such 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 Seaside, and most just lately, Palm Springs. We work collectively, play collectively, and reinforce the bonds we’ve made as a staff and firm. Each time we meet up, we depart refreshed, motivated, and excited for the yr forward collectively.
Up Your Recreation
We’re critical about serving to you enhance your craft. It’s an important work of our managers, and we funds for it, too (hey-o!). Assume conferences, on-line programs and subscriptions, devoted time away from work to be taught one thing new… It’s actually as much as you and your supervisor. However we like to see our individuals rising.
Different Advantages
Our staff is unfold all around the world—principally in the US, but in addition within the UK, Canada, Germany, Brazil, Mexico, and a number of other different international locations. Group members who reside within the US or UK are arrange as staff, and people who reside in different international locations 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.
In the event 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 lined!) We even have a Conventional and Roth 401(okay) possibility, the place YNAB matches your contributions as much as six %, and matches vest instantly. (Are you a private finance junkie like our founder Jesse? He arrange YNAB’s 401k to have the bottom price construction attainable, the place all plan prices are paid by YNAB, not your retirement nest egg. The funding funds accessible are implausible, passively-managed, extremely low-cost index funds. You’re not a PF junkie? Belief us, it’s superior.) In the event you’re within the UK, we additionally contribute six % 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 staff members. The beginning wage for this function can be between $130,000 – $180,000 USD yearly (with the highest of that vary reserved just for probably the most skilled candidates). If we determine to make you a proposal, we’ll decide probably the most applicable 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! In the event you be a part of our staff, you’ll even be eligible for a increase every year and for our profit-share twice a yr. (YNAB wins, you win—that type of factor.)
A Few Last Tidbits
- When you begin, we DEMAND (in a pleasant, ALL CAPS IS YELLING approach) that you just fill out your “Bucket Checklist” spreadsheet with 50 objects. (That’s tougher than it sounds!)
- We like to rejoice with you once 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 would like you firing on all cylinders, so we’ll set you up with a shiny new laptop and substitute it each three years.
- Did we point out that YNAB makes an enormous, constructive distinction in individuals’s lives? You could not suppose that issues a lot, however then a number of months down the street you’ll notice it’s made your job actually, actually pleasurable. Don’t underestimate this one!
If this appears like your best setting, 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 answerable 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 discuss our imaginative and prescient for every of these a bit bit extra.
To supply organizational readability, you’ll:
- Facilitate key communication and choice making buildings within the product org.
- Join elements of imaginative and prescient to technique to concrete items of product work, during our product growth course of.
- Present constant updates and suggestions on the execution of product work, utilizing metrics which can be applicable to our strategic targets.
- Evangelize the aim, success, challenges, and wishes of the product throughout the corporate.
To tell actionable technique, you’ll:
- Act as a accomplice and sounding board for the manager staff, 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 staff 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 reaching 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 possible sundown.
- Take possession and act the place empowered to, and hand-off the place you’ll 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 buildings, practices, and expectations essential to do product effectively. (Critically, that’s a complete job proper there.)
- Present mentorship and training to direct experiences and to particular person contributors all through the group.
- Multiply the experience and fervour of others to assist them lead on necessary elements of product tradition.
- Construct connections throughout the varied components of capital-p Product, from design to product administration, engineering, information science, product advertising, buyer help, supply, and extra.
- Facilitate the trade of concepts in each formal and casual methods.
- Preserve and enhance upon the options of our product course of which can be distinctive to us.
To ensure everybody has the possibility to execute, you’ll:
- Work most intently with the product administration staff for management, administration, and accountability.
- Work with different purposeful leaders on useful resource allocation—at common cadences but in addition 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.
- Devour standing updates extra constantly than anybody else within the firm (and everyone is fairly good at this, so excessive bar!).
- (Actually, to checklist the bullets right here could be a step overboard. Product organizations are extremely complicated, which you recognize, 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 means to strategy product growth as holistic, simultaneous, problem-solving of each person and enterprise targets. You see the nuance in every part, but in addition convey 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 essential to our shared success. And within that, we all know you recognize 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 can be with out peer.
The right 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!
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