Product Owner
Our Product & Technology organization nurtures a dynamic agile work environment full of talented individuals with a variety of thoughts, ideas and backgrounds working in small squads around a shared mission. Guided by our development principles, and a passion for compelling software, we come together to deliver great products and make Paylocity an exciting place to work. Best of all this is a work from home opportunity!
The Product Owner is a key leader within Product Development and works with a dedicated product team. This person is responsible for building a consensus amongst stakeholders by defining a shared product vision of what needs to be built and championing this vision to the product team through creation of business objectives, epics and user stories. This person should have a talent for conveying a clear and compelling narrative and an enthusiasm for creating vital functionality, while striving to innovate and expand our market-leading product suite. This position requires commitment to exceptional results, a strong desire for continuous improvement and the ability to think strategically about our products and act tactically. This in-turn will ensure we continue to innovate and expand our market-leading product suite.
Are you the teammate we are looking for?
Who you are:
- Collaborative, Innovative and Humble
- Starts with the customer unmet need (both short and long term)
- Equally skilled at dreaming (and articulating) and starting (and articulating) small
- Always brings a point-of-view formed by mix of data, experience, and gut
- Thick-skinned enough to successfully interact at the CEO level; curious enough to ask questions and alter point-of-view appropriately
- Relentlessly curious about current market and technology trends, able to adapt accordingly
- Passionate about quality and controls
- A superior communicator with an affinity for change management
- Unflinching in your desire for production stability
How we work:
- Curiosity and candor; the quality of the idea wins the day
- Casual, focused, and agile environment operating under our shared principles
- Customers at the center of everything we do
- Small, mission-focused squads with an entrepreneurial spirit backed by enterprise investments
- Consistent routines across stakeholders to ensure complete transparency
- Close working relationship between executive stakeholders and customers
What we offer:
- A compelling mission to elevate payroll and human resources across the backroom and into the boardroom
- Focus on helping our customers automate manual processes, appeal to the modern workforce, and glean insights from analytics
- Lean enabling process that focuses on putting our customers at the center of everything we do
- A commitment to investing in our products, hiring the best talent, and giving them the chance to meaningfully contribute to a vast market opportunity
- Ample opportunity and encouragement to stay current with external training
- A phenomenal culture that keeps getting better
Required Experience:
- 3+ years delivering software solutions in agile SaaS environment as a Product Manager, preferably in Enterprise Software space
- Data driven, with strong problem framing and analytical skills. You must be able to properly frame and size complex problems, then break them down into actionable steps
- Strong interpersonal skills; you will need to develop strong relationships with software and QA engineers, operations, sales, marketing and other internal key partners
- Excellent analytical, communication, technology skills
- Superior attention to detail with strong written and organizational skills
- Self-directed, self-motivated
- Agile, humble, trustworthy, and a team player
- Excel at communicating with the team remotely (confluence, slack, zoom, email, etc.)
During the last three months, you would have:
- Established a point-of-view about the product vision and aligned business owners and product stakeholders to that vision
- Became a deep expert in our customers, our business, the industry and the data
- Translated product vision into prioritized and deliverable epics and user stories
- Coordinated with other Product Owners to establish overall release goals and identify dependencies for cross-product initiatives
- Driven continuous improvement; shared lessons learned and contributed to the development of the agile practices
- Adjusted product priorities based on actual experience and user feedback
- Facilitated and guided product planning, stakeholder interactions, and demos
- Worked with internal and external customers to fully understand and conceptualize features and work flows related to those features
- Created, maintained, prioritized and owned the product backlog
- Made the final determination on feature acceptance and what ships
- Understood the competitive landscape and balance but not be beholden to it
- Acted as the voice of the customer, answered product related questions, and provided overall direction