Country product manager - italy
Pubblicato il 17-10-2026 - Deel in Verona
Overview
In this role you lead Deel’s payroll operations for Italy, acting as the founding product leader for a greenfield market. You’ll own end-to-end strategy with cross-functional teams to design payroll, HR, and time-tracking solutions tailored to Italy’s regulatory landscape. You’ll balance ambitious market timelines with prudent prioritization while leveraging AI to accelerate delivery. This is a high-impact opportunity to shape Deel’s Mediterranean expansion and drive cross-country product alignment.
Retribuzione / Benefits
- Stock grant opportunities
- Optional flexible office membership (IWG)
- Equity-for-all commitment and inclusive culture
- Additional country-specific perks depending on location
Responsabilità
- Define the product strategy for the Italian market across payroll, HR, time, and services
- Lead an engineering team to execute the roadmap
- Coordinate dependencies across Product (payroll engine), Time, HRIS, and Services teams
- Break complex requirements into iterative increments and ship fast
- Own relationships with key accounts and validate solutions with customers
- Collaborate with sales, implementation,
and local compliance teams to enable scalable solutions
- Think entrepreneurially to build a market entry playbook from scratch
- Leverage AI to accelerate build and ensure regulatory compliance in collaboration with local teams
- Master Italian labor law (CCNL, INPS, regional variations) to ensure compliant solutions
- Position Italy as the anchor market for Deel’s Southern Europe expansion
Requisiti fondamentali
- Based in EMEA with proximity to the Italian market
- Fluent in Italian and English for coordination
- Comfort with ambiguity and making decisions with incomplete information
- Strong stakeholder management across multiple teams and external partners
- Pragmatism and systems thinking to connect payroll, HR, time tracking and compliance
- stakeholder management
- ambition and entrepreneurial mindset
- communication and collaboration
- deep understanding of Italian labor law (CCNL) and INPS contributions
- experience building payroll or payroll product capabilities
- enterprise customer experience or complex requirements handling
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