Airbase Product Manager I - Money Movement

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.

Paylocity acquired Airbase! Airbase Inc., a modern finance and spend management software solution that combines bill pay / accounts payable automation, expense management, corporate cards and procurement capabilities. The acquisition of Airbase represents an expansion of Paylocity’s suite and is expected to deliver incremental integrated value to HR and finance leaders in managing all of their spend on a single platform – expanding the Paylocity total addressable market beyond HCM and further into the Office of the CFO.

We give our employees what they need to succeed, including great benefits and perks! We offer various benefits, as well as perks that support you, your family, and your finances. And if it’s career development you desire, we provide that, too! At Airbase by Paylocity, people matter most and have always been at the heart of our business.

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As Product Manager I at Airbase by Paylocity, you will create the vision and strategy for a portfolio of products, based on an outside-in market point-of-view anchored in the customer. You will convey a clear and compelling narrative and an enthusiasm for relentlessly delivering customer value. You will demonstrate accountable ownership, unmitigated curiosity, a strong desire for continuous improvement, and the ability to think strategically about our products while empowering and leading others to do the same. 

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Description: 

The Money Movement team is dedicated to supporting and enhancing the payments infrastructure at Airbase by Paylocity ensuring seamless payments within the US and cross-border payments globally. This team is the backbone of the Bill Payments, Expense Reports and the Cards modules, moving billions of dollars of customer funds annually. Product management is the function that guides every step of a product’s lifecycle — by focusing on the product and its customers first and foremost.  Product Managers identify the most valuable problems to solve, enable their team to ship and iterate high-quality solutions quickly, and validate market impact. They leverage customer insights to deeply understand their problems, define the correct priorities and create a clear Product brief.

• Collaborative, Innovative and Humble 
• Starts with the customer unmet need (both short and long term) 
• Skilled at defining measures to identify user patterns and learn from user data
• Equally skilled at dreaming (and articulating) big, starting (and articulating) small, and working incrementally to achieve outcomes
• Experienced and preferred working in a player/coach role in which you regularly sought input from customers and other stakeholders (sales, service, partner teams), defined acceptance criteria, provided product direction to development team members and coached product owners through similar activities
• Always brings a point-of-view formed by mix of data, experience, and intuition 
• Eager to keep up with current market and technology trends, able to adapt accordingly
• Demonstrates confidence in successfully interacting at the CEO level; curious enough to ask questions and alter point-of-view appropriately 
• Enthusiastic about quality and controls 
• Steadfast in your desire for production stability 
• Highly emotionally intelligent, possessing the ability to adjust style to meet the needs of the audience 
• Supportive and savvy about change communication 
• Proactive in communication, gap identification, and risk mitigation 

Responsibilities 

1. Identify Problems & Priorities 

• Apply skills from user science, analytics and business acumen to identify customer and user problems. 
• Apply the lens of strategy, user goals and Airbase purpose to prioritize problems to solve. 

2. Communicate 

• Evangelize and communicate the product plan. 
• Apply low fidelity design to present vision for solutions to problems. 

3. Collaborate 

• Collaborate with engineers and designers to arrive at the detailed solutions to problems. 
• Collaborate with Sales and Customer Success to understand and eliminate obstacles to adoption and usage. 
• Work with Marketing to bring new features to life on various communication touch points. 

4. Execute 

• Own the roadmap for one or more parts of the product. 
• Work with engineering and design to plan launch scope. 
• Together with engineering and design, break-down scope into launch iterations. 

This role requires 

• Excellent communication (written and verbal) and interpersonal skills. 
• You should have worked at a startup or started your own company that shipped a product. 
• An engineering / technical background that will allow you to reason about product trade-offs and make good choices without significant input from engineers. 
• You should have been a practicing engineer for at least 2 years before becoming a product manager. 
• At least 2 years of experience in a Product Management role. 
• You should have a track record of shipping high quality products and features and owning the process end-to-end. 
• Experience building modern web applications. 
• Familiarity with modern UX/UI patterns. 
• Attention to detail - great products are all about the details. 
• Passionate about joining a small team and building a company.

 Airbase by Paylocity is an equal-opportunity employer. We are 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 Airbase by 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, or any other status protected by state or local law for an individual who falls within the jurisdiction of such law. 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.

Applicants who require an accommodation throughout the application and interview process should request this in advance by contacting accessibility@paylocity.com.

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