About Us and Why We’re Hiring

We’re YNAB (“why-nab”), a monetary schooling firm with a budgeting app. We educate 4 Guidelines that create a brand new relationship with cash—one the place you’re keen on the way you spend and have a good time the way you save. For greater than a decade, individuals have been utilizing YNAB after which telling their pals what a distinction it has made of their lives. Try our group on Facebook, TikTok, or Reddit (actually!), or learn a few of our app reviews, 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 when 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 attaining desired outcomes. You are taking possession of integrating parts of the product org, together with technique, execution, administration, and communication.

For those who’re the one we’re in search of, you could have excessive requirements for all elements of product improvement. 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 attain their finest work—together with making the mandatory errors alongside the way in which.

Necessities (these are actual, precise necessities)

It principally 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 count on that you simply’ll be most profitable on this position in case 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 can be organizational readability, so it is best to have expertise looking for and speaking readability in all instructions from a product org.
• You’ll companion with others to tell our product technique and—most critically—lead on making it actionable, so it’s essential 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 already know out of your expertise means obsessing equally about our individuals and our product.
• Lastly, you’ll be accountable for ensuring that everybody has the prospect to execute, particularly within the product administration staff, so try 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, it’s essential know when 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 got one overarching requirement on the subject of becoming a member of our staff: our authentic Core Values Manifesto has to essentially click on with you. For those who’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 day-after-day at YNAB, and we imply it once we say we’re an equal alternative employer. We consider {that a} variety of backgrounds, skills, beliefs, and experiences is crucial to our success, and we’re keen about making a welcoming, supportive, and collaborative surroundings for all workers. All are inspired to use as we proceed to develop a wise, hard-working, and numerous staff 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 acquired many of Fortune’s “great place to work” awards during the last a number of years. We’ve got a staff stuffed with actually distinctive individuals—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 a detailed companion to Todd, our CEO, in your complete product course of. Todd began at YNAB in 2010 after a seek for a budgeting resolution ended up in a dialog with YNAB’s founder, Jesse. One job led to a different, and since then he’s been part of growing 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 along with his spouse and three youngsters, the place he retains life so simple as he can—consuming, sleeping, sitting, feeding the birds, reducing flowers, and ultrarunning.

You’ll perform and lead most carefully with Buffy, our Director of Engineering, and Dylan, our Design Director.

Buffy has been a Buffy since earlier than Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and certainly one of her life regrets isn’t 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 outside along with her household. She’s a lifelong New Englander, so be sure you inform her you’re keen on vacationing “in Cape Cod” after which please, watch her face very fastidiously for a response.

Dylan loves organizing design methods, obsessing over typographic particulars, and every part in between. Above his desk (ahem, kitchen desk, it’s a small house in spite of everything) sits an not easily seen letterpressed card with Dieter Rams’ 10 ideas of excellent design on it. In his spare time he’s most likely taking images or working—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—nicely—most likely everybody else at YNAB. We will’t even checklist all of them, actually. However we will say that folks like Jacob and Brenda (a few our PMs), Kathryn and Jack (each designers), Sebastian and Lindsey (our Heads of Expertise  and Advertising), and Eva and Rachel (our information scientist and product operations specialist) positive are excited to work with you.

How You’ll Work at YNAB

Now that you simply’ve met a few of your potential future teammates, let’s speak extra about YNAB as an organization. Right here’s how we function:

Stay The place You Need

We’re a distributed staff, 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. Need to up and transfer to France for a yr? Positive, 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 house location on her Strava profile. The distant Canadian wilderness? We’ve bought 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 barely work greater than that. There are events and seasons the place issues get busy and other people put some further time in—however then we encourage them to take some further day without work, too. We work arduous and sensible 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, in the end, we expect it makes us—and our work—even higher.

Flex Your Work Schedule

We’re absolutely distant, so a whole lot of our work is finished asynchronously, however we love working collectively in real-time when it is sensible. We attempt to schedule most conferences between 12-3pm Jap time (16:00-19:00 UTC) Monday-Thursday. Exterior of your conferences, we belief you to set your individual schedule by balancing your staff’s wants with your individual wants. You don’t must ask for permission to take off early one afternoon to see the physician, or be “energetic” on Slack when 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 (Severely)

We would like you to take trip. Actually, 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 sit up for seeing photos of your adventures in our #office_wall Slack channel!

Meet Your Crew

A few of our greatest work (and bonding!) is finished in particular person. You’ll typically have the chance to satisfy along with your staff a few times a yr, at a small-team work-focused meetup or at our firm retreat. On the YNAB retreat, we like to make amends for spreadsheets and powerpoints in a Finest Western convention room. Simply kidding. (It’s really arduous to put in writing that sentence, even realizing it’s such joke.) Thus far, we’ve gone to Costa Rica, a gigantic cabin within the mountains, a seashore home within the Outer Banks, a ranch in Montana, Laguna Beach, and most 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 Sport

We’re critical about serving to you enhance your craft. It’s crucial work of our managers, and we funds 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 individuals rising.

Different Advantages

Our staff is unfold everywhere in the world—largely in the USA, but in addition within the UK, Canada, Germany, Brazil, Mexico, and a number of other different nations. Crew members who reside within the US or UK are arrange as workers, and those that reside in different nations set themselves up as impartial contractors. Regardless of the place you reside, you’re eligible for our beneficiant paid household depart, trip, holidays, and sick time.

For those who’re within the US, we additionally provide improbable well being, dental, and imaginative and prescient insurance coverage, the place we cowl 100% of the premium for you and your loved ones. No must test your imaginative and prescient, you learn that proper—100%. (Though when you did must test your imaginative and prescient, NBD, we’ve bought you coated!) We even have a Conventional and Roth 401(ok) 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 charge construction doable, the place all plan prices are paid by YNAB, not your retirement nest egg. The funding funds accessible are improbable, passively-managed, extremely low-cost index funds. You’re not a PF junkie? Belief us, it’s superior.) For those who’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 intention to supply a aggressive advantages bundle to our staff members. The beginning wage for this position can be between $130,000 – $180,000 USD yearly (with the highest of that vary reserved just for essentially the most skilled candidates). If we resolve to make you a proposal, we’ll decide essentially the most applicable quantity based mostly on what we learn about your expertise and competency for the position, after which we’ll make you our greatest provide and hope that you simply settle for! For those who be a part of our staff, you’ll even be eligible for a increase annually and for our profit-share twice a yr. (YNAB wins, you win—that form of factor.)

A Few Closing Tidbits

• When you begin, we DEMAND (in a pleasant, ALL CAPS IS YELLING manner) that you simply fill out your “Bucket Checklist” spreadsheet with 50 objects. (That’s more durable than it sounds!)
• We like to have a good time with you whenever you full one thing in your bucket checklist—AND, we love utilizing your bucket checklist as inspiration in 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 change it each three years.  
• Did we point out that YNAB makes an enormous, constructive distinction in individuals’s lives? Chances are you’ll not assume that issues a lot, however then a number of months down the highway you’ll notice it’s made your job actually, actually satisfying. Don’t underestimate this one!

If this appears like your ideally suited surroundings, learn on as a result of now we wish to speak about you, and the way you’ll play a giant half in altering individuals’s lives.

Now again to you, our new Director of Product….

As we talked about earlier, you’ll be accountable 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 consider in you.

Let’s speak about our imaginative and prescient for every of these a little 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, all through our product improvement course of.
• Present constant updates and suggestions on the execution of product work, utilizing metrics which can be applicable to our strategic objectives.
• Evangelize the aim, success, challenges, and desires of the product throughout the corporate.

To tell actionable technique, you’ll:

• Act as a companion and sounding board for the chief staff, and our CEO Todd specifically, to develop a radical understanding of our technique and its implications.
• Create and preserve alternative roadmaps on the degree 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 attaining them.
• Have plans and contingency plans for the long-term improvement of the product past the quarter or the yr. Prioritize work based mostly on the long-term plan, together with what we wish to emphasize sooner or later and what we’ll possible sundown.  
• Take possession and act the place empowered to, and hand-off the place it’s essential.
• 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 nicely. (Severely, that’s a complete job proper there.)
• Present mentorship and training to direct studies 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 parts of capital-p Product, from design to product administration, engineering, information science, product advertising and marketing, buyer help, supply, and extra.
• Facilitate the alternate of concepts in each formal and casual methods.
• Keep and enhance upon the options of our product course of which can be distinctive to us.

To verify everybody has the prospect to execute, you’ll:

• Work most carefully with the product administration staff for management, administration, and accountability.
• Work with different practical 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 throughout 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 persistently 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 advanced, which you already know, even once we’ve made and stored them so simple as could 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 capacity to strategy product improvement as holistic, simultaneous, problem-solving of each consumer and enterprise objectives. 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 high—not as a result of that’s good, however as a result of we see this as crucial to our shared success. And within that, we all know you already know your stuff and might eloquently and logically clarify selections 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 superb, and along with your assist and management, our product and product group can be with out peer.

Methods to Apply

Please apply at this link earlier than Sunday, September tenth at 11:59pm PST.

We’re excited to listen to from you!

P.S. For those who’re not on this place proper now, however know somebody who could be, we’d recognize you passing this alongside!