Senior Product Manager - Core HR

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.
 

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The Senior Product Manager is a key leader within Product Development, working with dedicated product teams to ensure that our products deliver against our customers’ unmet needs. ?You are responsible for collecting and analyzing a variety of data to help the product team determine what needs to be built and in what priority. You contribute to and execute product vision and strategy, which includes conducting feature research, running discovery sessions, writing user stories, and owning the product backlog. You have a talent for conveying a clear and compelling narrative and an enthusiasm for creating vital functionality, while striving to innovate and expand our market-leading product suite. This position requires commitment to exceptional results, a strong desire for continuous improvement and the ability to build strong relationships with a multi-discipline team.? 

Who you are:
 

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.

• Starts with the customer unmet need (both short and long term)
• Brings a point-of-view supported by variety of data 
• Always curious about the customer experience and current market and technology trends, able to adapt accordingly and manage ambiguity 
• Operates autonomously in discovering and evangelizing for the right customer problems to solve
• Highly collaborative with the ability to work cross functionality and inter disciplinary across stakeholders

During the first six months at Paylocity, you will:  

• Identify, define, and drive impactful customer outcomes consistently
• Operate autonomously and proactively seek out ambiguous and impactful customer problems
• Develop a strong knowledge of our customers, our business, our competition, and the industry
• Collect and analyze a variety of data (e.g., industry, competitive, customer and stakeholder feedback) to identify key themes to determine customer value proposition (under guidance from leader) and validate assumptions regarding product features 
• Under guidance from leader, propose a product roadmap and leverage data to drive priorities and customer value 
• Conduct roadmap feature research with product designers
• Write user stories in a manner clearly understandable to product teams. Break down complex functionality into epics 
• Regularly monitor utilization of released functionality, sharing data and trends with other Product Leaders to identify areas of opportunity and recommend ideas 
• Own product backlogs and product development requests (PDR’s) to provide impact analysis and determine priority 

Required Experience:

• 5+ years of experience in product management. 
• Experienced in setting strategy for a new product or feature 
• Experience working in an agile environment
• Data driven, with excellent problem framing and analytical skills
• Strong interpersonal and relationship building skills; you will need to develop strong relationships with software and software test engineers, operations, sales, marketing and other internal key partners
• Superior attention to detail with excellent communication (verbal and written) and organizational skills
• Must be able to collaborate with team to encourage and motivate team members to produce and deliver on objectives
• Must be customer focused and outcome driven
• Must be data and insights driven
• Must be focused and able to think strategically and creatively
• Must be able to lead and guide a product’s lifecycle

Preferred attributes for this role:  

• Experience building experiences for Enterprise (1000+ employees) customers, preferably in the HCM domain
• 5+ years of experience in Payroll/HR/Human Capital Management, preferably at a SaaS provider

Responsibilities Include:

• Designs, develops, and manages activities for a specific product or group of products from product definition and planning through production, release, and end of life

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.
 

We comply with federal and state disability laws and make reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities. To request reasonable accommodation in the job application or interview process, please contact LeaveBenefits@paylocity.com. This email address is exclusively designated for such requests, aligning with federal and state disability laws. Please do not send resumes to this email address, as they will be removed. 

This role can be performed from any office in the US. The pay range for this position is $128,000 - $182,800 /yr; however, base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. This position is eligible for an annual bonus and restricted stock unit grant based on individual performance in addition to a full range of benefits outlined here. This information is provided per the relevant state and local pay transparency laws for the location in which this position will be performed. Base pay information is based on market location. Applicants should apply via www.paylocity.com/careers. 

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