Senior Product Manager

At SmartBarrel, we're revolutionizing the construction industry with innovative technology designed specifically for job sites. Born from the need for efficient time tracking in construction, our mission is to bring workers and companies together through collaborative and transparent solutions. We pride ourselves on being approachable, knowledgeable, and passionate about making a tangible difference in day-to-day operations.

We are professional, agile, and focused on delivering high-quality products. Our work environment includes a modern office setting, food provided, work-from-home days, and growth opportunities.

Specialty contractors run their labor on SmartBarrel: who was on site, for how long, on which job, at what rate. Behind every punch is a rule. Daily overtime in California. A union agreement's shift differential. Prevailing wage on a public job. Per diem by distance. A meal-break penalty. You know those rules cold, and you turn them into product.

When Sales, Support, Engineering or a client's payroll manager asks "how should this work?", you answer, then you write it down so nobody has to ask again. You own the product areas where time becomes pay: pay rules and earn codes, overtime, union and prevailing wage, compliance, and the payroll exports that feed our clients' ERPs.

This is not a role where you collect requirements and hand them off. You bring the answer. If you've been the person a contractor's whole payroll department calls when a rule doesn't make sense, this is your job.

• Be the domain authority: answer the payroll, timekeeping, union, prevailing wage and productivity questions from Sales, Support, Implementation, Engineering and clients, then document each answer so it's settled for good.
• Own the time-to-pay roadmap: overtime and pay rules, earn codes, per diem, shift-based pay, break tracking and attestations. Decide what to build next and why.
• Write the rule before the code: specs that settle every edge case before development starts: multi-state overtime, mixed union and non-union crews, multiple trade classifications in one day, retro rate changes, union reciprocity.
• Build compliance into the product: certified payroll (WH-347 and state forms), Davis-Bacon and state prevailing wage, fringe benefits, apprentice ratios, meal and rest breaks, and Canadian provincial employment standards.
• Connect labor to productivity: help turn hours, cost codes and quantities into the productivity and job-cost insight contractors actually manage to.
• Sit across the table from clients: get on calls and job sites with payroll managers, CFOs and union administrators. Help close deals where the question is "can you handle our rules?"
• Raise the team's level: mentor our Associate PM, and give Implementation and Support a payroll playbook so fewer questions need you.
• Track the rules as they change: state overtime changes, new wage determinations, union contract updates. Our clients should hear about them from us first.

• 6+ years in construction payroll, labor compliance or workforce/timekeeping, with at least part of it in product, implementation or solutions at a software company (or the reverse)
• You can explain these without notes: FLSA vs. state overtime (including California daily and double time), Davis-Bacon and state prevailing wage, certified payroll, fringe benefits and union remittances, collective bargaining agreements, per diem taxability
• Hands-on with at least one construction ERP or payroll system: Vista/Viewpoint, Spectrum, CMiC, Foundation, Sage 300 CRE, or a certified payroll tool like LCPtracker
• Real product craft: you write specs, prioritize with reasons, and say no without losing the room
• Comfortable with data: Excel at an expert level, SQL a plus
• Credible with a CFO, a payroll manager and a foreman, all in the same day
• Nice to have: Certified Payroll Professional (CPP) or Canadian PCP/CPM; Canadian payroll (CRA, provincial ESA, CCQ); time at a specialty trade contractor; construction tech or workforce SaaS experience; bilingual English/Spanish or English/French

• Competitive salary + stock option eligibility
• 401(k) (US) / RRSP program (Canada, if offered)
• Health, dental & vision insurance
• Paid time off
• Professional development assistance, including payroll certifications
• Real ownership: you work directly with the CEO, a former specialty contractor, and you shape how thousands of field workers get paid correctly
• A direct, fast-moving team that hates wasted time as much as you do: short meetings, quick decisions, no process for its own sake