Senior Product Manager

Paylocity is an equal opportunity employer.
Senior Product Manager
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. 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 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:
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)
• 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
• 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:

• Identify, define, and drive impactful customer outcomes consistently
• Evangelize customer problems and expected outcomes to VP/Director leadership and stakeholders to gain buy-in.
• Operate autonomously and proactively seeks out ambiguous and impactful customer problems
• Lead product strategy for multiple opportunities
• 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 (under guidance from Product Manager) and validate assumptions regarding product features
• Contribute to development and pressure testing of product vision and strategy
• Under guidance from Product Manager, propose product roadmap and leverages data to drive priorities and customer value.
• 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. Begins to break down complex functionality into epics.
• Assists Product Manager in presenting data, designs, and decisions to stakeholders in product briefing and deep dives
• Participate in all agile ceremonies
• Work with 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 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:

• 3+ years of experience in product management.
• 5+ years of experience in Payroll/Human Capital Management, preferably at a SaaS provider
• Deep domain expertise in payroll, benefits, time & labor 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 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