Greenshades Product Managers are responsible for executing Agile based software development across multiple product verticals whilst maintaining true ownership of their products and scrum teams.

The Product Management Department is aiming to hire professionals that have a combination of hard and soft skills that are valuable within a development organization. These professionals should expect to interact, manage, and communicate effectively across departmental boundaries, to external partners, and directly with users of the product. You should be comfortable working in a dynamic and fast-paced environment. Structure and processes are crucial, but as a results driven PM, flexibility is essential to ensure you are properly prioritizing the enhancements that will enable new revenue and maintain a high level of satisfaction for the active customer base. We expect you to be passionate about building products that our customers love. 

We are looking for a technically talented and data driven individual with a moderate level of experience within the Payroll / HCM space who seeks to enhance the products they take ownership of and grow their own skillsets. 

Responsibilities

• Define and develop the product strategy / roadmap to drive targeted business outcomes in alignment with top level corporate strategies / goals. 
• Identify new product features to solve problems that current and prospective clients are facing, through market or internal information via interactions with clients, sales, implementations, or other functional internal or external departments. 
• Nurture the technical relationships with key customers through various avenues (i.e. conducting voice of the customer feedback sessions). 
• Daily leadership and management of the Sprinting or KanBan processes of assigned scrum teams. 
• Present complex information, issues, processes, and potential solutions in an organized and summarized fashion to leadership, interested parties, and team members with the goal of producing buy in and cross team alignment. 
• Identify market opportunities and build business cases, including financial estimates, to own the P&L 
• Build a highly skilled and engaged development workforce. 
• Create User Story definitions and specifications and in turn define the “what to build” and “why we should build it” side of the development cycle. 
• Define, analyze, and manage metrics that track the success of managed products (KPIs) 
• Effectively and efficiently communicate product changes both internally for stakeholders and externally for users. 

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities 

• Must display the highest level of critical thinking to weigh alternatives and present solutions that are consistent with the business strategy. 
• Superior leadership abilities including the ability to share knowledge, resolve conflict, and create consensus. 
• Strong ability to take ownership of assigned tasks and responsibilities, and appropriately prioritize. 
• Excellent strategic project planning and documentation skills. 
• Logical, clear, and concise written and verbal communication skills. 
• Well versed in software development, web applications, computer architecture, and related subject matter. 
• A passion for data, with great quantitative skills. Fully comfortable with financial and operational metrics and analyses. 
• Must think like a both with strong business acumen as well as problem solver or engineer by displaying strong troubleshooting abilities to get to the source of problems and think critically about the potential solutions impact both technically and practically. 
• Must display initiative, ability to work independently and be able to use extensive independent judgment. 
• Ability to work seamlessly within a team as well as manage individual tasks. 
• Ability to react quickly to a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment. 
• Focus on the customer; Celebrates the success of others in the business. 
• Working knowledge of the Payroll and HCM software market, with an intermediate level of core payroll and tax concepts. 

Preferred Training and Experience 

• Bachelor's degree in a related area required (or equivalent work experience). 
• A minimum of 4 years of experience in a software development environment, preferably as a Product Owner, Product Manager, Business Analyst, or equivalent, with an HCM or Payroll industry focus. 
• Proven track record of developing and implementing winning technology strategies within a large, complex organization. 
• Proven track record overseeing all aspects of large-scale projects including planning, requirements gathering, resource management and budget. 
• Experience in Agile based software development. 
• Technical knowledge of Information Technology field, software development, and computer systems. 
• Familiarity with the following Product Management and/ or software development toolsets; Azure DevOps, SQL Syntax, Pendo, Miro / Figma / Lucid, and Postman 

This is a remote position.