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Senior Product Manager - Special Projects

Tremendous

This Senior Product Manager role focuses on payments and high-priority research to launch new product areas. You will act as an internal incubator, validating ideas before they become permanent squads.

What you’d own

  • New product area research and opportunity sizing
  • Shovel-ready briefs, prototypes, and specs
  • Portfolio of high-priority open questions
  • End-to-end execution for small projects

Who it’s for

A fit if you…

  • ✓You have 6+ years of experience shipping web applications with at least 2 years of zero-to-one experience.
  • ✓You are comfortable being the sole person accountable for an initiative without a dedicated team.
  • ✓You excel at written communication and producing decision memos to persuade stakeholders.

Not for you if…

  • ✗You prefer a stable, long-term ownership of a single product over a shifting portfolio of projects.
  • ✗You rely on frequent meetings to drive product progress rather than asynchronous documentation.
  • ✗You prefer having a dedicated squad and team immediately available to execute your roadmap.

Reading between the lines

  • The 'Kill calls' mention implies you will be expected to make high-stakes decisions on whether to abandon projects entirely.
  • The requirement to use AI agents for research suggests a heavy emphasis on speed over manual data gathering.
  • The phrase 'portfolio comes first' implies you must be comfortable with your priorities shifting frequently based on validation results.

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Full job description

Compensation: $250K – $325K • Offers Equity

Tremendous is the global platform built for businesses to send thousands of payouts to anyone, anywhere, for free. We're trusted by 20,000 organizations like Atlassian, MIT, and United Way to deliver gift cards and money to millions of recipients worldwide.

Our customers (researchers, marketers, HR teams, nonprofits, and platform businesses) rave about how fast and easy Tremendous is to use. Check out our ratings on G2 https://www.g2.com/products/tremendous/reviews.

Tremendous is profitable and growing without outside investors. We’re a fully remote, high-documentation, low-meeting culture, which means more time for what matters in both your professional and personal life. The team agrees– our employee NPS is in the high 80s.

About the role

Most PMs at Tremendous run a squad. This role owns problems instead.

We're growing fast and spinning up new product areas. Each one needs research, a roadmap, and shovel-ready specs before we staff it. That's your job. You'll dig into areas where we might launch a squad, and run projects too small to need one.

You'll carry one or two projects at a time, drawn from the company's highest-priority open questions. When a problem proves worth solving, what happens next depends on how big the opportunity is.

If it justifies a long-term team, you'll likely build that squad and lead it as its PM. If it's worth building but smaller, you'll build it yourself with an engineer or two and design help from a related squad. If it's small and close to an existing squad's work, you'll hand it off with a finished brief, and that squad's PM will carry it forward. You'll have real influence over new project areas and which teams exist a year from now.

Today, the product management org is 7 PMs, led by a co-founder who serves as Head of Product.

You will

  • Report to our Co-founder / Head of Product, Kapil Kale https://www.linkedin.com/in/kapilvkale/
  • Own new product areas before they have a team. Develop a thesis, do the research, size the opportunity, and make a recommendation: spin up a squad, build it lean, hand it off, or kill it. Kill calls are as valuable as green lights.
  • Turn research into shovel-ready work. Your output is briefs, prototypes, and specs that a squad can pick up and build immediately.
  • Move quickly using AI. Use agents to dig through customer tickets, sales calls, usage data, and competitor research. Ship clickable prototypes in days to test ideas with real customers.
  • Run projects that don't need a full squad. Some work is worth doing but too small for a team. You'll drive these end-to-end with engineers from existing squads.
  • Cover a squad when needed. If a team is temporarily without a PM, you may step in. This is occasional, and your portfolio comes first.
  • Work async. Most product work here happens in writing. If you're used to running product through meetings, this will feel different.

You have

  • 6+ years building and shipping web applications as a designer, engineer, or product manager at tech companies, with at least 2 years taking new products from zero to one.
  • Comfortable being the only person accountable for an initiative that doesn't have a team yet.
  • Comfortable owning a portfolio instead of a single product. If validation kills your thesis, you move to the next bet without drama.
  • A track record of turning ambiguous opportunities into prioritized, shovel-ready roadmaps.
  • Strong product intuition, design judgment, and technical fluency. You hold your own with designers and engineers.
  • Outstanding written communication. We're documentation-first, and this role runs on briefs and decision memos that need to persuade senior stakeholders.
  • Founder, founding PM, or first-product-hire experience is a strong plus.

What’s cool about the role

  • Competitive pay and equity. Base salary for this role: $250,000 to $325,000.
  • Real benefits. 100% covered health (US), unlimited PTO, 12-16 weeks paid parental leave.
  • Fully remote. Work from anywhere in the Americas.
  • Great culture. Read more about how we work in our public handbook https://handbook.tremendous.com/.

About Tremendous

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Tremendous is a payouts and incentive platform that lets companies send rewards, rebates, referral bonuses, and research incentives to recipients globally in their preferred format — gift cards, Venmo, PayPal, ACH, prepaid cards, and more. The platform is used by market research firms, sales teams, HR departments, and growth teams who need a fast, flexible way to send money without building custom payout infrastructure. Tremendous handles the compliance, delivery, and recipient experience behind the scenes. The company is bootstrapped, profitable, and has processed hundreds of millions in payouts with a lean team and a strong product focus.

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