Associate Product Manager for Payroll APIs

Paylocity is an equal opportunity employer.
Associate Product Managers are emerging leaders in Product Development and work with dedicated product teams to ensure that our products deliver against our customers' unmet needs. They 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. They assist in developing and executing product vision and strategy, which includes conducting feature research, running discovery sessions, writing user stories, and owning the product backlog. They monitor the utilization of released functionality. They should be enthusiastic about creating vital functionality, innovating, and expanding our market-leading product suite. This position requires a 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.

• Collaborative, Innovative and Humble
• Starts with the customer's unmet need (both short and long term)
• Brings a point-of-view supported by a variety of data
• Always curious about the customer experience and current market and technology trends, able to adapt accordingly
• Enthusiastic about quality and controls
• A strong communicator with an affinity for change management
• Steadfast in your desire for production stability

During the first six months at Paylocity, you will:

• Own and drive tactical execution of product and feature delivery, partnering with Design & Engineering to bring features to market
• Facilitate product and feature discovery process by collecting quantitative and qualitative data
• Autonomously drive product delivery process
• Execute research-oriented tasks with clear direction from leadership
• Lead product management for one opportunity
• Develop a strong knowledge of our customers, our business, our competition, and the industry
• Regularly communicate with customers (with support from Product Manager) and internal stakeholders to get feedback on their wants and needs
• Collect and analyze a variety of data (e.g. industry, competitive, customer and stakeholder feedback) and with guidance, identify key themes and validate assumptions regarding product features and proposed roadmap priorities
• Contribute to development and pressure testing of product vision and strategy
• Use data to validate product roadmap priorities
• Conduct roadmap feature research with product designers
• Help set up customer validation testing of designs and run discovery sessions
• Write user stories in a manner clearly understandable to product teams
• Present designs, data and decisions to Product Manager to help them prepare for product briefing and deep dives
• Participate in all agile ceremonies
• Work with the Group Product Manager to define vision and strategy for product's marketing launch plan and own assigned components of the plan
• Regularly monitor utilization of released functionality, sharing utilization data and trends with Product Manager to identify areas of opportunity and recommend ideas
• Own product backlogs and PDRs and provide impact analysis of client issues to determine priority

Required Experience:

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience.
• Is either in a current Product Analyst role at Paylocity or has 1-3 years of experience outside Paylocity as a Product Owner
• Data driven, with solid problem framing and analytical skills
• Proficient in working with APIs
• Experience with system integration scenarios and use cases
• Strong interpersonal skills; you will need to develop strong relationships with software and software test engineers, operations, sales, marketing, and other internal key partners •Strong analytical and technology skills
• Superior attention to detail with strong 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

Our award-winning culture has made this the place employees want to be. We have plenty of opportunities for you to grow your career within Paylocity and offer benefits like Tuition Reimbursement so you can continue to learn and develop your skills. You could say our growth game is strong. We also reward hard work with a flexible, casual work environment and plenty of perks. From picnics to game nights, to holiday parties, there is no shortage of ways to have fun.
We also offer the following benefits and perks:

• Competitive pay
• Comprehensive benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401k)
• Flexible work hours
• Paid Parental Leave
• Ample volunteer opportunities and events
• Health and wellness program
• Stock purchasing options (NASDAQ: PCTY)

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