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 have a good time the way you save. For greater than a decade, folks have been utilizing YNAB after which telling their pals 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 impression on folks’s lives.
YNAB is rising, and so is our management group. You’re the Director of Product we’re on the lookout for in the event 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 reaching desired outcomes. You’re taking possession of integrating elements of the product org, together with technique, execution, administration, and communication.
When you’re the one we’re on the lookout for, you’ve got excessive requirements for all points 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 consultants and work alongside them to floor one of the best choices. You assist everybody to attain their finest 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 on the lookout for 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 position when 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 important tasks:
- Your major focus will probably be organizational readability, so it’s best to have expertise looking for and speaking readability in all instructions from a product org.
- You’ll associate 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 folks 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 ought 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, you’ll want to know in the event you’ll even like working with us. Let’s discuss a bit about life at YNAB, after which we’ll go into extra element about what we’re on the lookout for.
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 got one overarching requirement on the subject of becoming a member of our group: 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 will’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} variety of backgrounds, talents, beliefs, and experiences is crucial to our success, and we’re keen about making a welcoming, supportive, and collaborative setting for all staff. All are inspired to use as we proceed to develop a wise, hard-working, and numerous group that loves working collectively to construct one thing that issues.
We additionally work actually arduous, collectively, to make working at YNAB an incredible expertise, and we’re (humbly) proud to have obtained a lot of Fortune’s “great spot to work” awards over the past a number of years. We’ve got a group filled with actually distinctive folks—the sort you’ll be excited to work with. We’d like to introduce you to some of them!
Who you’ll be working with:
You’ll be an in depth associate 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 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 one in all her life regrets just isn’t shopping for buffy.com whereas she was in faculty. She loves a very good 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 be sure you inform her you like vacationing “in Cape Cod” after which please, watch her face very rigorously for a response.
Dylan loves organizing design methods, obsessing over typographic particulars, and all the pieces in between. Above his desk (ahem, kitchen desk, it’s a small condo in spite of everything) sits an not noticeable letterpressed card with Dieter Rams’ 10 rules of excellent design on it. In his spare time he’s most likely taking photographs or operating—typically on the identical time.
Honestly, you’ll have interactions and affect throughout your complete product org, and also you’ll additionally cross paths with—properly—most likely everybody else at YNAB. We will’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 knowledge 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 discuss extra about YNAB as an organization. Right here’s how we function:
Reside The place You Need
We’re a distributed group, so you may 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. Wish to up and transfer to France for a 12 months? 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 residence location on her Strava profile. The distant Canadian wilderness? We’ve acquired folks 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 extremely 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 arduous and good and we care deeply about what we do, however we additionally love our households and about 2,000 different issues. We’ve got perspective and, finally, we predict it makes us—and our work—even higher.
Flex Your Work Schedule
We’re totally distant, so quite a lot 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 Japanese time (16:00-19:00 UTC) Monday-Thursday. Exterior 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 in the event you’re working deeply on a venture. We take a look at what you accomplish—not when or how lengthy you’re in entrance of a pc.
Take Trip (Severely)
We would like you to take trip. The truth is, we’ve got a minimal trip coverage of three weeks per 12 months, 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 essential to get loads of downtime and to get out and do one thing. We’ll sit up for seeing photos of your adventures in our #office_wall Slack channel!
Meet Your Workforce
A few of our greatest work (and bonding!) is completed in particular person. You’ll usually have the chance to fulfill along with your group a couple of times a 12 months, 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 arduous to put in writing that sentence, even realizing it’s such a very good 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 Seaside, and most 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 depart refreshed, motivated, and excited for the 12 months forward collectively.
Up Your Recreation
We’re severe about serving to you enhance your craft. It’s crucial work of our managers, and we price range for it, too (hey-o!). Suppose 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 folks rising.
Different Advantages
Our group is unfold everywhere in the world—largely in america, but in addition within the UK, Canada, Germany, Brazil, Mexico, and several other different nations. Workforce members who reside within the US or UK are arrange as staff, and people who reside in different nations set themselves up as unbiased contractors. Regardless 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 examine your imaginative and prescient, you learn that proper—100%. (Though in the event you did have to examine your imaginative and prescient, NBD, we’ve acquired you lined!) We even have a Conventional and Roth 401(okay) choice, 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 payment construction potential, 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 % 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 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 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 position, after which we’ll make you our greatest supply and hope that you just settle for! When you be part of our group, you’ll even be eligible for a increase annually and for our profit-share twice a 12 months. (YNAB wins, you win—that form of factor.)
A Few Remaining Tidbits
- When you begin, we DEMAND (in a pleasant, ALL CAPS IS YELLING means) that you just fill out your “Bucket Record” spreadsheet with 50 objects. (That’s tougher than it sounds!)
- We like to have a good time with you once you full one thing in your bucket listing—AND, we love utilizing your bucket listing as inspiration on 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 exchange it each three years.
- Did we point out that YNAB makes an enormous, constructive distinction in folks’s lives? Chances are you’ll not assume that issues a lot, however then just a few months down the highway you’ll understand it’s made your job actually, actually satisfying. Don’t underestimate this one!
If this feels like your excellent setting, learn on as a result of now we need to discuss you, and the way you’ll play an enormous half in altering folks’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 discuss our imaginative and prescient for every of these slightly bit extra.
To offer organizational readability, you’ll:
- Facilitate key communication and choice making buildings within the product org.
- Join points 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 applicable to our strategic targets.
- Evangelize the aim, success, challenges, and desires of the product throughout the corporate.
To tell actionable technique, you’ll:
- Act as a associate and sounding board for the manager group, and our CEO Todd particularly, to develop a radical understanding of our technique and its implications.
- Create and keep alternative roadmaps on the degree 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 reaching them.
- Have plans and contingency plans for the long-term growth of the product past the quarter or the 12 months. 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 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 choices and actions within the context of key, enduring concepts.
- Set up the buildings, practices, and expectations essential to do product properly. (Severely, 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 essential points of product tradition.
- Construct connections throughout the varied parts 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.
- 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 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 repeatedly 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 everyone is fairly good at this, so excessive bar!).
- (Actually, to listing the bullets right here could be a step overboard. Product organizations are extremely advanced, which you recognize, even once we’ve made and saved them so simple as might 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 skill to method product growth as holistic, simultaneous, problem-solving of each person and enterprise targets. You see the nuance in all the pieces, but in addition deliver readability out of it. You handle to empower and nurture the folks in our product group—whereas additionally offering a transparent and compelling path. As a result of (if we haven’t but spilled sufficient metaphorical ink on this concept) we work collaboratively right here from backside to high—not as a result of that’s good, however as a result of we see this as crucial to our shared success. And inside that, we all know you recognize your stuff and may 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 along with your assist and management, our product and product group will probably be with out peer.
Methods 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 could be, we’d recognize you passing this alongside!
