Senior Product Manager – Extended Workforce Payments

Atlas HXM is a global Employer-of-Record provider dedicated to facilitating international talent management. They are seeking a Senior Product Manager to lead the development of Extended Workforce Payments products, focusing on contractor onboarding, compliance, and global payouts while navigating regulatory complexities.

Responsibilities:

• End-to-end product ownership of new Extended Workforce solutions, beginning with AOR
• Contractor lifecycle:
• Onboarding & classification
• Contracts & documentation
• Invoicing & payouts
• Build compliant flows for North America (US + Canada) with extensibility for global expansion
• Design and scale multi-currency, cross-border payment experiences
• Partner deeply with legal, compliance, finance, and ops to translate regulatory complexity into product
• Define and drive core metrics:
• Activation & onboarding completion
• Payment success rates
• Compliance coverage
• Revenue & margin
• Work closely with engineering to build reliable, scalable systems (not duct-taped workflows)
• Talk to users constantly - HR, finance, operations, Independent contractors, customers - and turn insights into product bets

Requirements:

• 3–5+ years in product, with experience in early-stage or high-growth environments or at a company within the hiring services spaces
• Built or led products in AOR / COR / EOR
• Built or led products in contractor management platforms
• Built or led products in global payroll or contractor payments
• Understanding of worker classification (and how risky it gets)
• Understanding of tax forms (W-9, W-8BEN, 1099 workflows)
• Understanding of cross-border payments (FX, rails, delays, failures)
• Comfortable using AI tools (LLMs, automation, Claude, Figma etc) in your day-to-day workflow
• Able to identify opportunities to embed AI into product experiences (e.g., compliance automation, document processing, risk detection)
• Stay current with emerging AI capabilities and apply them pragmatically—not just as hype
• Comfortable going from zero structure → shipped product → scaled system
• Ability to balance speed vs risk vs quality without getting stuck
• Understanding that payments, compliance, onboarding are systems, not just features
• Ability to design for edge cases, failures, and scale
• Ability to work through ambiguity without waiting for perfect clarity
• Familiarity with payment rails (ACH, wire, wallets, Stripe, etc.)
• Exposure to compliance-heavy or regulated environments