Senior Product Manager

Responsibilities:

• Lead a development team and product area to discover user needs, understand and define the product’s market positioning, define and refine team KPIs and objectives, understand tech tradeoffs, and create a roadmap that balances users, tech and business needs.
• Lead your empowered development team(s) to execute against that roadmap to deliver substantial timely value against those KPIs and objectives.
• Obtain a strong understanding of the users and market for your product, from competitive analysis to user segmentation, and drive this understanding through the business.
• Be a strong advocate for user needs across all functional areas, and help maintain the proper intersection of user needs with implementation and business needs.
• Manage the product objectives, key results and roadmap for your assigned business area; ensure these dovetail into the company's commercial strategy
• Work closely with stakeholders across the business, and of course work very closely with development teams composed of engineers, domain experts, design and others.
• Use data to shape your narratives and prioritization, and to drive understanding through the business using clear communication techniques.
• Create a culture of experimentation within your team, where validating assumptions and measuring impact ensure your teams limit guesswork and maximize value

What are you great at? (Previous experience):

• Tolerance and even enthusiasm for ambiguity, and a bias to action creates a data-driven path forward despite an unclear path.
• Personal stature, gravitas, a relationship builder, and excellent communication skills.
• Develop excellent working relationships with leaders throughout the company.
• Excellent critical judgment; ability to make good decisions, be trusted, respected and dependable, be proactive and responsive, ask the right questions, raise flags at the right time, able to prioritize and plan workloads for the team.
• Analytical thinking capability; logical, systematic, strategic and pragmatic.
• A growth mindset fostering a culture of feedback and high performance within your teams
• Deftly wielding multiple agile practices through software lifecycles. Educating the wider business teams on the development process.

Requirements:

• 6+ years product management experience, with payroll or payments industry experience.
• Demonstrated success in strategy through delivery, balancing user needs, business goals and technical implementation to create a functional and beautiful product.
• Experience in fostering the customer experience, end to end journey, UX and UI.
• Delivered complex projects with agile development teams, with a firm personal belief in ship, learn & iterate.

What would make you really stand out?

• Delivered a mass-market B2B product or service via a bespoke tech (digital) platform.
• Experience with People Operations software and businesses.
• Experience with Product Management in a startup or scale-up.
• Experience with a service-based product.