Sr. Product Manager - Payroll Experience

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. 

BambooHR is on a mission to set people free to do great work. We’re looking for a Senior Product Manager to play a pivotal role on our Payroll Experience team, owning some of the most critical and high-impact areas of payroll. This is a career-defining opportunity for a product leader who thrives in complex domains, cares deeply about accuracy and trust, and has experience building systems that scale operationally while remaining intuitive for users. Exposure to payroll, time tracking, compensation, finance, or accounting platforms is a strong plus.

Essential Job Duties

This role is for an experienced product manager who wants to lead a world-class team of builders. The product you’ll help build sits at the heart of payroll execution. Your work will directly influence payroll correctness, confidence, and efficiency for both BambooHR customers and internal teams. You’ll lead cross-functional efforts to modernize workflows, reduce friction and errors, and deliver great experiences that enable the continued growth of BambooHR’s payroll business.

You will:

• Develop a profound understanding of the challenges and opportunities in the Payroll domain through research and regular interaction with customers and internal stakeholders.
• Clearly define and frame the opportunities in this space and deliver a clear strategic vision that turns an inherently complex set of opportunities into a compelling narrative for your team, stakeholders, and executive leadership.
• Utilize the strategic vision and input from other sources to develop a clear plan to prioritize opportunities for improvement and consistently deliver high-value solutions aimed at improving customer and business outcomes. 
• Build strong relationships of trust with key stakeholders that own the teams and areas impacted by your work while continuously maintaining alignment around strategy, roadmap, and prioritization for all efforts.
• 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.

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, or Payments. Experience with optimizing run payroll workflows and paystubs is a plus.
• Demonstrable experience leading a team
• 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 make decisions by being persuasive.
• You have deep experience working with qualitative customer insights, and quantitative customer data to inform decisions
• You’re entrepreneurial; you don’t need direction; you're self-driven
• You’re organized, deliberate, and intentional 
• You’re able to switch between thinking creatively and analytically easily
• You can find excitement in delivering internal solutions that truly change the lives of the people who use them (we’re doing some really cool stuff!).
• You’ve integrated AI into your processes to act as a co-pilot or co-worker; bonus if you’ve had the opportunity to leverage AI in product solutions you’ve delivered
• At BambooHR, we believe in leveraging cutting-edge technology to empower people and transform HR. We're actively integrating AI into our solutions and workflows to enhance efficiency and drive innovation. To that end, we're looking to our