Country Product Manager - Italy

Deel

Location: IT
Work arrangement: Remote
Job type: Full-time
Pay: $96,000 – $120,000 / year
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Key skills in this ad

Skills and tools

Product management
Payroll
AI
SaaS
Tax
Sales
Recruitment
Audit

Languages

Italian
English

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About this role

Who we are is what we do.

Deel is the all-in-one payroll and HR platform for global teams. Our vision is to unlock global opportunity for every person, team, and business. Built for the way the world works today, Deel combines HRIS, payroll, compliance, benefits, performance, and equipment management into one seamless platform. With AI-powered tools and a fully owned payroll infrastructure, Deel supports every worker type in 150+ countries—helping businesses scale smarter, faster, and more compliantly.

Among the largest globally distributed companies in the world, our team of 7,000 spans more than 100 countries, speaks 74 languages, and brings a connected and dynamic culture that drives continuous learning and innovation for our customers.

Why should you be part of our success story?

As the fastest-growing Software as a Service (SaaS) company in history, Deel is transforming how global talent connects with world-class companies – breaking down borders that have traditionally limited both hiring and career opportunities. We're not just building software; we're creating the infrastructure for the future of work, enabling a more diverse and inclusive global economy. In 2024 alone, we paid $11.2 billion to workers in nearly 100 currencies and provided healthcare and benefits to workers in 109 countries—ensuring people get paid and protected, no matter where they are.

Our momentum is reflected in our achievements and customer satisfaction: CNBC Disruptor 50, Forbes Cloud 100, Deloitte Fast 500, and repeated recognition on Y Combinator's top companies list – all while maintaining a 4.83 average rating from 15,000 reviews across G2, Trustpilot, Captera, Apple and Google.

Your experience at Deel will be a career accelerator. At the forefront of the global work revolution, you'll tackle complex challenges that impact millions of people's working lives. With our momentum—backed by a $17.3 billion valuation and $1 B in Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) in just over five years—you'll drive meaningful impact while building expertise that makes you a sought-after leader in the transformation of global work.

About The Role

We're building Deel's payroll operations for Italy to capture a significant market opportunity. This is a greenfield build. You'll be the founding product leader for Italy, working with a dedicated engineering team to design and launch payroll, HR, time tracking, and related products that serve Italy's complex regulatory and business environment.

As Country PM, you'll own end-to-end product strategy and execution. You'll work across compliance, engineering, payroll operations, HR, and time tracking to translate local requirements into products that work. You'll make critical trade-off decisions: what to build first, what gets deferred, and how to hit market timelines without overcommitting.

The Context

Italy represents both significant opportunity and technical complexity. As a major EU economy with one of Europe's most rigid and complex labor systems, Italy requires mastery of CCNL (collective bargaining agreements), Italian Labor Law (Codice del Lavoro), INPS social security contributions, and dual tax systems. You'll work with enterprises navigating one of the continent's most sophisticated—and most regulated—payroll landscapes.

We're building on Deel's internal infrastructure, which means you'll coordinate across multiple product teams and navigate technical complexity that a third-party vendor would hide. You own translating Italy's requirements into engineering work and prioritizing ruthlessly against your team's capacity.

What You'll Do

Define product strategy for the Italian market across payroll, HR, time, and services
Work with your dedicated engineering team to execute on the roadmap
Coordinate across Product (payroll engine), Time, HRIS, and Services teams to align on dependencies
Break complex requirements into iterative pieces. Ship early, learn from customers, iterate
Own the relationship with key accounts, understanding their needs and validating your solutions
Work with sales, implementation, and local compliance teams to ensure we're building something that can scale
Think like an entrepreneur. This is a new market opportunity, and you're building the playbook from scratch
Use AI to speed up the build, getting rules in and scale in collaboration with local compliance teams.
Master Italian labor law (CCNL collective bargaining, INPS requirements, regional variations) and build solutions that comply with Italy's strict employment regulations
Position Italy as the anchor market for Deel's Mediterranean and Southern Europe expansion

What We're Looking For

Must Have:

Based in EMEA (Italian market proximity and cultural understanding critical)
Fluent Italian speaker (plus fluent English required for coordination)
Comfort navigating ambiguity and making good decisions with incomplete information
Strong stakeholder management. You'll coordinate across teams and external partners
Pragmatism and systems thinking. You need to understand how payroll, HR, time tracking, and compliance fit together

Ideal To Have:

Deep understanding of Italian labor law, CCNL agreements, INPS system, or previous work in Italian payroll
Prior experience building payroll systems or working in payroll product roles
Track record launching new products or entering new markets
Experience with enterprise customers or complex business requirements

Total Rewards

Our workforce deserves fair and competitive pay that meets them where they are. With scalable benefits, rewards, and perks, our total rewards programs reflect our commitment to inclusivity and access for all.

Our salary range reflects gross base salary. For commercial roles with commission eligibility, this figure represents On-Target Earnings (OTE), inclusive of base salary and target commission.

Salary ranges are quoted in USD as a consistent global reference. Your offer will be localized to your country's currency using a market-aligned conversion.

Final pay is based on objective, job-related criteria including experience, skills, and location.

We don't ask about salary history. Offers are based on the role and what you bring to it.

Some things you'll enjoy

Stock grant opportunities dependent on your role, employment status and location

Additional perks and benefits based on your employment status and country

Optional flexible working office membership, with IWG

At Deel, we're an equal-opportunity employer that values diversity and positively encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of race, religion, sex, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, pregnancy or maternity or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

Unless otherwise agreed, we will communicate with job applicants using Deel-specific emails, which include @deel.com and other acquired company emails like @payspace.com and @paygroup.com. You can view the most up-to-date job listings at Deel by visiting our careers page.

Deel welcomes persons with disabilities to apply to any of our open roles. We will provide application and/or interview accommodations on request throughout the recruitment, selection and assessment process for applicants with disabilities or other needs. If you require application and/or interview accommodations, please inform our Talent Acquisition Team via email (recruiting@deel.com) and a team member will be in touch to ensure your equal participation.

As part of our hiring process, we primarily rely on interviews and role-related assessments. In limited cases, we may also consider informal background information relevant to the role, in line with our privacy and fairness obligations.

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$96,000 – $120,000 / year

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