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 existing team members and future hires to share this forward-thinking mindset: individuals who are curious about AI's potential, eager to learn and adapt, and ready to explore how intelligent tools can elevate their work along with BambooHR'simpact on setting people free to do great work. Join us in reimagining the future of HR!
What You'll Love About Us
- A Great Company Culture that has been recognized by multiple organizations like Inc, and Salt Lake Tribune
- Comprehensive health, life, and disability insurance
- Generous leave policies that include 4 weeks of vacation, 12 company holidays, parental leave, and volunteer time off so you can enjoy quality of life
- 401k plans with up to 6% company match
- $2000 Paid-Paid Vacation bonus
- EAP through Headspace
- Check out all our benefits that benefit you
About Us
At BambooHR, we're building something different: we're building a people intelligence platform that transforms HR and sets people free to do great work! We're a proven market leader driving innovation while building lasting success through thoughtful, sustainable growth. Here, you'll find a place that champions growth: both professional and personal, both individual and collective.
We invest in potential, giving you the space to stretch your capabilities and turn good ideas into reality while providing the safety net of a supportive, values-driven culture. Our approach combines meaningful work with meaningful lives, offering competitive benefits, professional development, and the flexibility to thrive both in and outside the office.
What sets us apart isn't just what we do, but how we do it: with openness, integrity, and a shared commitment to doing the right thing. Join us in creating HR software that makes work better for everyone, while we make work better for you.
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