Airbase Group Product Manager II

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 providing 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.  

Help Airbase by 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.   

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The team 

The Expense Management team at Airbase by Paylocity, owns the Reimbursements, Corporate Card and the Travel experiences. The team is Accountable for offering a modern consumer grade experience to employees both on web and mobile app. The primary goal of this team is to drive employee happiness which will ultimately drive platform stickiness. 

About the role 

We’re looking for a Group Product Manager II (GPM II) to guide GPMs, PMs & BA in our Expense Management team at Airbase by Paylocity. The GPM II will coach their team to develop a vision for each product, they will also define the roadmap and drive the execution of the product strategy. The GPM II ensures the quality of that vision. Aligning with stakeholders and working collectively with Product peers are critical in this role. 

During the first six months at Paylocity, you will: 

• Use expertise to define and build long-term outcomes and product strategies in an area where they are undefined 
• Create scalable, long-term mechanisms that drive teams to deliver customer value and look to continually optimize processes  
• Provide coaching on long-term strategy definition, evangelizing vision to VPs/Directors to gain buy-in   
• Guide teams unassisted 
• Remove roadblocks, surface & mitigate short-term risks unassisted 
• Make opportunity/cost/resource trade-offs with guidance from Governance  
• Manage managers
• Stay Engaged with engineering heads on vision, timelines, risks, and team dynamics  
• Stay Engaged with design guidance on design needs, priorities, timelines, and long-term vision

Required Experience:  

• Gained 8+ years of experience in product management in agile development environments 
• Shown your passion for developing PMs at varying stages of their careers
• Demonstrated your customer-focused, outcome-motivated, and data-motivated mindset  
• Influenced and aligned many areas of the business around a common goal
• Successfully guided a product’s lifecycle through strategic and creative thinking 
• Built operational excellence within your team
• Must have good social skills with demonstrated abilities in working collectively with cross-functional teams  
• Experience in communicating product strategies to senior Heads and getting alignment on the path forward  
• Must have excellent communication skills  
• Used metrics to deep-dive into issues and uncover business-driving trends and patterns 
• Must have relevant experience in building SaaS products. Experience in building a consumer grade user experience is preferable 

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.