Senior Technical Product Manager

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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!
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Are you looking for an opportunity to innovate, pursue new technologies, solve problems, and contribute to high-profile projects? Do you want to join an organization that's making significant annual investment in technology? Then you've found the right place.
We are seeking an experienced and dynamic Senior Technical Product Manager to join our Product Development team. As a key leader, you will collaborate closely with dedicated product teams to ensure our products meet and exceed our customers' unmet needs. This role requires a deep commitment to exceptional results, a passion for innovation, and the ability to foster strong relationships with a diverse, multi-discipline team.
Key Responsibilities:

• Product Vision and Strategy: Lead the development and execution of the product vision and strategy. This includes conducting feature research, running discovery sessions, and taking ownership of the product backlog.
• Data-Driven Decision Making: Collect and analyze various data sources, including industry insights, competitive analysis, and customer feedback, to identify key themes and validate assumptions about product features.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work collaboratively with cross-functional teams across sales, strategy, data, design, marketing, and legal to drive successful product releases and marketing launch plans.
• Customer Focus: Develop a deep understanding of customer problems and expected outcomes. Evangelize these insights to gain buy-in from leadership and stakeholders.
• Roadmap Ownership: Own and drive the product roadmap strategy and definition, ensuring alignment with business goals and customer value proposition.
• Communication: Clearly convey a compelling narrative and product vision to both internal and external stakeholders. Write user stories and facilitate communication with product teams.
• Technical Expertise: Leverage your strong technical background to understand and communicate complex technical concepts effectively. Contribute to engineering discussions regarding technology decisions and product strategy.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field; MBA or advanced degree is a plus.
• Proven experience as a Product Manager, with a track record of successfully launching and managing technical products.
• 6+ years of experience in product management.
• 2+ years of experience in Payroll/Human Capital Management or similar industries, preferably with a leading SaaS company.
• Strong technical background with the ability to understand and communicate technical concepts effectively.
• Experience working in an Agile environment.
• Data-driven, with excellent problem framing and analytical skills.
• Exceptional communication (verbal and written) and organizational skills.
• Superior attention to detail.
• Strong interpersonal and relationship-building skills.
• Customer-focused and outcome-driven.
• Ability to think strategically and creatively.
• Leadership skills to guide a product's lifecycle.

What to Expect in Your First Six Months:

• Identify, define, and drive impactful customer outcomes with the Paylocity Marketplace technology team.
• Develop a strong knowledge of our customers, our business, our competition, and the industry.
• Regularly communicate with customers and internal stakeholders to gather feedback.
• Conduct roadmap feature research and run discovery sessions.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive successful product releases.
• Influence product leadership to define the vision and strategy for product marketing launch plans.
• Monitor the utilization of released functionality, analyze trends, and recommend improvements.

EEO and accessibility Statement
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 [email protected].
This role can be performed from any office in the US. The pay range for this position is $129,750-$196,514; 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
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