Senior Director Product Management - Office of the CIO

Paylocity is an award-winning provider of cloud-based HR and payroll software solutions, offering the most complete platform for the modern workforce. The company has become one of the fastest-growing HCM software providers worldwide by offering an intuitive, easy-to-use product suite that helps businesses automate and streamline HR and payroll processes, attract and retain talent, and build a strong workplace culture.

While traditional HR and payroll providers automate basic HR processes such as payroll and benefits administration, Paylocity goes further by developing tools that HR and businesses need to compete for talent and deliver against the expectations of the modern workforce.

Help Paylocity enhance communication and enable employees to connect, collaborate, and create from anywhere with a position in Product & Technology!

Want to develop the strategies and principles needed to deliver compelling software? 

Join our team and help us enhance our all-in-one software platform, elevate our one-of-a-kind technology, and improve the employee experience. Take your career to the next level at one of G2's Top 100 Software Companies. Explore our Product & Technology positions to see where you fit!

The Senior Director of Product Management, Office of the CIO,  is a critical role in our organization. With ownership over the full product development lifecycle, you will guide your team to identify the most valuable problems to solve, enable them to ship and iterate high-quality solutions quickly, and validate market impact. 

This position requires a strategic product leader committed to understanding the challenges our customers face and working collaboratively across the organization to bring market leading solutions to fruition. As the Sr Director of Product Management, you will be responsible for setting and executing our overall strategy for a new product development area focused on the intersection of the HR & IT, grounding in creating a modern employee experience. You will drive from 0 to 1 and beyond for these products.  Creating a connected experience for employees and the IT professionals supporting them from onboarding through retirement is the goal.  You will work closely with cross-functional teams ensure that our products meet the needs of our customers and align with our business goals. 

Who you are:  

• Always curious about current market and technology trends, competitive landscape, and influences product strategy accordingly. 
• Highly collaborative individual that can co-create a vision and drive execution of that vision. 
• Have built teams from a few team members to a scaled high functioning team. 
• An influential leader who rallies multiple product teams around the vision and creates an atmosphere where teams are empowered to deliver. 
• Data driven individual that uses insights and experience to create and prioritize 12–24-month roadmaps  
• A superior communicator with an affinity for change management. 
• A leader who focuses on talent development by creating enabling and inclusive environments and identifying, coaching, and cultivating high potentials. 
• Determined and willing to experiment, embracing constant feedback loops.
• Ability to work with engineering teams located across different time zones. 

Required Experience 

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, business management or related field; MBA preferred. 
• 10+ years of experience in product management, with at least 5 years in a leading teams larger than 20 people. 
• Proven track record of developing and launching successful SaaS based products from introduction to retirement.  
• Solid interpersonal and communication, and collaboration skills with proven ability to work across the organization with a one-team mindset. 
• A proven track record of defining outcome orientated business goals and then delivering on those goals to drive profitable growth. 
• Hands-on knowledge of agile product practices and prevalent best practices including product briefs, competitive analysis, product usage analytics, user segmentation, and prioritization.  
• Possess a blend of business to have a big-picture vision as well as the drive and attention to detail that transforms strategy into action. 
• Experience building products for the IT Services industry is a must. 

Paylocity is an equal-opportunity employer.

Paylocity is committed to the full inclusion of all individuals. We recruit, train, compensate, and promote regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, veteran status, and other protected status as required by applicable law. At Paylocity, we believe diversity makes us better.

We embrace and encourage our employees’ differences in age, culture, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion or spiritual belief, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other characteristics that make our employees unique. We actively cultivate these differences through our employee resource groups (ERGs), employee experiences, perspectives, talents, and approaches to drive innovation in the software and services we provide our customers.

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