Principal Technical Product Manager

ADP is hiring a Principal Technical Product Manager

  We're hiring a Principal Technical Product Manager to work in our next gen global Payroll Platform strategy and execution. This role will drive platform capabilities that enable ADP's international expansion across various countries, managing a complex portfolio that includes Globalization initiatives, payments orchestration, statements platform, and platform standardization efforts. You'll join a growing team of product managers, architects, engineers, and AI researchers building the platform that enables ADP's international expansion across various countries. We're looking for someone who thrives in complexity: you'll balance strategic vision with hands-on execution, work across multiple country teams and engineering organizations. You will make product decisions that need to hold up under real-world scale across diverse global markets. You'll translate complex, high-level country requirements into end-to-end platform capabilities, identify reusable patterns across geographies, and drive the shift from custom code to configurable frameworks. You're energized by global challenges, comfortable defending architectural trade-offs, and ready to push for technical excellence while keeping business constraints front and center.      Here's what you can expect on a typical day:    Strategic Planning & Stakeholder Alignment. You'll start your day reviewing priorities across multiple countries and engineering teams. You'll facilitate coordination meetings with global development teams and regional product managers, extracting priorities and negotiating roadmap commitments. You're constantly balancing critical launches with long-term platform evolution.    Requirements Translation & Pattern Recognition. You'll take high-level country requests—often incomplete and calculation-focused—and expand them into complete platform flows. You're excellent at identifying reusable patterns across countries. You’re always asking "How does this scale globally?”    Architecture & Design Collaboration. You'll spend time with architects and senior engineers debating technical approaches. You can hold your own discussing microservices, event-driven architecture, configuration frameworks, and multi-tenancy patterns. You translate technical trade-offs for business stakeholders and defend why certain decisions matter for scale.    Cross-Functional Coordination. You'll coordinate across platform components—policy management, payroll processing, tax filing, reporting, integrations—ensuring cohesive end-to-end delivery. You'll partner with frontend teams on practitioner experiences and AI research teams on intelligent automation. You're the glue connecting diverse teams toward common goals.    Documentation & Communication. You'll write sharp design briefs, functional specifications, and architecture decision records. You'll present to VP-level executives on portfolio status and risks. You're capable at persuading partners with varying seniority and technical expertise.      Intake & Assessment. When new country requests come in, you'll assess them for reusability, identify gaps in specifications, and run working sessions to expand calculation-only requests into full platform flows. You're comfortable pushing back when requests don't align with platform principles and proposing better alternatives.  Qualifications

TO SUCCEED IN THIS ROLE:    Experience & Background   

• You have a Bachelor's degree OR equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or related field. Bonus if you have hands-on technical experience or have worked in payroll, HCM, or financial services domains.

• You have 10+ years of firsthand experience defining and delivering enterprise platform products, working with agile teams across multiple geographies and time zones.

• You have 3+ years working on global products serving multiple countries/regions with varying regulatory requirements

• You've successfully launched products in highly regulated domains (payroll, tax, HR) where compliance, auditability, and scale were key success factors. Extra credit if you've worked on global products serving multiple countries with varying regulatory requirements.

• You've managed highly critical portfolios, balancing multiple concurrent workstreams and critical milestones.

• You've worked hands-on with AI/ML features—bonus if you've integrated generative AI, LLM-based automation, or intelligent tooling into product workflows.

 

Technical Depth

• You're comfortable digging into platform architecture, APIs, microservices, configuration frameworks, and event-d