Product Manager II

Paylocity is an equal opportunity employer.
Paylocity is a cloud-based software company that creates customized HR solutions for small to mid-sized organizations. Our workplace enhances communication and enables employees to connect, collaborate, and create from anywhere. Our award-winning culture ensures everyone has a voice and feels truly welcome. Join Paylocity as we shape the future of technology and the workplace!
We give our employees what they need to succeed, including great benefits and perks! We offer medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and a 401(k) match, 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 Paylocity, people matter most and have always been at the heart of our business.
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 Product Manager II is a key leader within Product Development, working with dedicated product engineering teams to ensure that our products deliver against our customers' unmet needs. This position will focus on the benefits administration needs of employers and their employees. They are responsible for collecting and analyzing a variety of data to determine what needs to be built and in what priority. They contribute to and execute product vision and strategy, which includes conducting feature research, running discovery sessions, writing user stories and owning the product backlog. They should 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:

• Collaborative, innovative, and humble
• Passionate about product experimentation, research, and discovery
• Brings a point-of-view supported by variety of data
• Comfortable with operating autonomously to solve problems
• Focused on delivering outcomes to meet customer needs
• Strong communicator able to evangelize your strategic vision across different audiences

During the first six months at Paylocity, you will:

• Develop a strong knowledge of our customers, our business, our competition, and the industry
• Regularly communicate with customers 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) to identify key themes to determine customer value proposition and validate assumptions regarding product features
• Define the customer problems & desired outcomes that feed into product & feature discovery
• Autonomously own product & feature discovery, execution and delivery end-to-end including go to market activities
• Evangelize customer problems and expected outcomes to Product leadership & stakeholders to gain buy in (and to senior leaders with Group Product Manager guidance)
• Participate in all agile ceremonies with product engineering team
• Own & maintain 12 month strategic product roadmap, product backlogs and product development requests (PDRs), and provide impact analysis of client issues to determine priority
• Regularly monitor utilization of released functionality, sharing data and trends with Group Product Manager to identify areas of opportunity and recommend ideas
• Proactively seek customer problems to solve for and new market opportunities to pursue

Required Experience:

• 3+ years of experience in product management. Bonus if this experience is in Benefits or Human Capital Management.
• 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 engineers, 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 customer focused and outcome driven
• Must be data and insights driven
• Must be focused and able to think strategically and creatively

Paylocity is an equal opportunity employer. Paylocity is committed to the full inclusion of all individuals. 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 [email protected]
This role can be performed from any office in the US. The pay range for this position in Colorado is $116,000 - $176,913; 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 Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act. Base pay information is based on market location. Applicants should apply via www.paylocity.com/careers