Key skills
Employer-of-Record (EOR)Agent-of-Record (AOR)Contractor management platformsGlobal payrollContractor paymentsWorker classificationTax form workflows W-9Tax form workflows W-8BENTax form workflows 1099Cross-border paymentsAI tools usageAI integration in productsPayment rails ACHPayment rails wirePayment rails walletsPayment rails StripeCompliance in regulated environmentsPragmatismSystem thinkingAIClaudeRailsFigma
About this role
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