Staff Product Manager, Integrations

Deel Deel · Enterprise · EMEA · R&D

Staff Product Manager, Integrations at Deel, a global payroll and HR platform. This role focuses on defining and executing the strategy for integrations with strategic HR and finance platforms, aiming to automate processes and enhance customer success. The position requires deep technical expertise in APIs, integration design patterns, and platform architecture, with a strong emphasis on driving measurable business impact through complex integrations.

What you'd actually do

  1. Own the end-to-end strategy and roadmap for strategic integrations, balancing short-term customer needs with long-term scalability and technical excellence
  2. Partner with leadership across partnerships, sales, customer success, and product teams to identify integration opportunities and align cross-functional priorities
  3. Drive discovery to deeply understand customer problems, evaluate solutions through the lens of feasibility, desirability, and viability, and prioritize the highest-impact initiatives
  4. Lead complex, cross-team initiatives from ideation through launch and post-launch optimization, ensuring elegant solutions to intricate technical and business challenges
  5. Define and track meaningful KPIs tied to OKRs, analyze results post-launch, and drive data-informed decisions for continuous improvement

Skills

Required

  • 6-8+ years of product management experience in fast-paced, high-growth environments (scale-up/start-up strongly preferred)
  • Deep technical expertise: APIs, domain-driven design, integration design patterns, and platform architecture
  • Proven track record of building and scaling complex integrations that drive measurable business impact
  • Strong commercial acumen with ability to prioritize based on business value, market dynamics, and strategic positioning
  • Demonstrated experience leading cross-team initiatives and influencing stakeholders across engineering, design, partnerships, and business functions
  • Strategic thinker who can build compelling long-term vision while executing with Deel Speed and bias for action
  • Exceptional ability to communicate complex technical concepts to diverse audiences through clear storytelling and data-driven narratives
  • Skilled at working in ambiguity, rapidly synthesizing insights from qualitative and quantitative data to drive decisions
  • Strong design sensibility for both UX and UI, with proven ability to make complex integration experiences simple and intuitive for non-technical users
  • Independent, autonomous leader who thrives on ownership and accountability

Nice to have

  • 3+ years of experience building and scaling enterprise HRIS and ERP external payroll integrations, working closely with large customers and diverse stakeholder groups
  • Experience with enterprise software platforms such as SAP, Workday, Oracle, or similar
  • Background in platform product management or developer tooling
  • Experience establishing integration frameworks, patterns, or platforms that enable team scalability

What the JD emphasized

  • Deep technical expertise: APIs, domain-driven design, integration design patterns, and platform architecture
  • Proven track record of building and scaling complex integrations that drive measurable business impact
  • Strong commercial acumen with ability to prioritize based on business value, market dynamics, and strategic positioning
  • Demonstrated experience leading cross-team initiatives and influencing stakeholders across engineering, design, partnerships, and business functions
  • Strategic thinker who can build compelling long-term vision while executing with Deel Speed and bias for action
  • Exceptional ability to communicate complex technical concepts to diverse audiences through clear storytelling and data-driven narratives
  • Skilled at working in ambiguity, rapidly synthesizing insights from qualitative and quantitative data to drive decisions
  • Strong design sensibility for both UX and UI, with proven ability to make complex integration experiences simple and intuitive for non-technical users
  • Independent, autonomous leader who thrives on ownership and accountability