Sr. Product Manager - Payroll Tax Products

Please Note: This is a Utah-based hybrid position which will require some regular in-office days each week. Additionally, employment with BambooHR is contingent on passing both a background and credit check. 

What You'll Do

BambooHR is on a mission to set people free to do great work. The role we’re looking to fill is a career-defining opportunity for someone passionate about product who has deep experience with building tools that scale and automate internal processes and teams. Exposure to and understanding of finance, payroll, Federal & State Tax regulations, or accounting platforms is a plus. 

We are looking for an experienced product manager who wants to lead a world-class team of engineers and designers. The product you’ll help build touches some of our most critical teams and  internal processes. You will help build workflows and experiences that will enable the growth of our market leading payroll business through building out strategic tools and workflows that empower and scale our internal Payroll Services Teams responsible for managing Tax Payments and Filing for our Payroll customers

What will you be doing?

• Develop a profound understanding of the challenges and opportunities in the Payroll Tax domain through research and regular interaction with customers and internal stakeholders.
• Clearly define and frame internal customers’ challenges for your team while prioritizing opportunities for improvement.
• Build strong relationships of trust with key business stakeholders that own the teams impacted by your work while creating alignment around strategy, roadmap, and execution prioritization for all efforts with those leaders.
• Consistently deliver high-value solutions aimed at improving user behavior and outcomes for our internal payroll services teams and BambooHR
• Strategically manage the product roadmap by capturing input from various sources, comprehending and prioritizing this input, and ensuring your team is focused on the most impactful projects.
• Possess the ability to comprehend and communicate technical requirements effectively. Transform these requirements into actionable specifications for your engineering team.
• Define solution scopes to their most compact and coherent state, allowing for early customer deployment
• Regularly assess the effectiveness of your solutions through quantitative and qualitative measures to ensure they successfully address the identified challenges.
• Own and maintain the quality of the product areas your team is responsible for; deliver world-class software in every release
• Inspire and lead a team of dedicated, intelligent professionals to achieve their career best, fostering a culture of excellence.

If you’re an experienced Senior Product Manager with a passion for solving meaningful problems, and scaling manual processes and have the skills and drive to make a significant impact in the HR and Payroll industry, we encourage you to apply.

• Deeply know the problems and opportunities that you’re tackling through research and regular interaction with internal customers; define and frame those problems for the team
• Ship software that changes peoples’ behavior for the better, creating better outcomes for our customers and BambooHR
• Manage the roadmap: capture work from a wide range of inputs, understand and prioritize this work so your team is always working on the most impactful projects
• Collaborate with your team in thinking big, to imagining future solutions that solve these problems
• Scope these solutions to their smallest coherent state to ship to customers as early as you can
• Constantly evaluate if your solutions have solved the problem through quantitative and qualitative measures
• Own and maintain the quality of the product areas your team is responsible for; deliver world-class software in every release
• Motivate a group of committed, intelligent people to do the best work of their careers

What You Need to Get the Job Done

• You feel aligned with the BambooHR values
• 4+ years experience as a product manager, with a proven track record of shipping impactful products
• Experience as a product manager in at least one of the following industries: Payroll, Fintech, Accounting, Payroll Tax, or Payments. Experience with Federal and State Tax requirements is a plus.
• Demonstrable experience leading a team
• Ideally, you have a strong design background, as it’s essential you’re able to think deeply about product design decisions and have an understanding of how to create simple user interfaces
• You can clearly communicate product decisions and the rationale behind them. You’re comfortable making decisions without consensus. You can help others m