Sr Product Manager

**Job Description**:
**Job ID**:

- SRPRO013770

**Employment Type**:

- Regular

**Work Style**:

- hybrid

**Location**:

- Montevideo,Uruguay

**Travel**:

- Up to 25%

**Role**:

- Sr Product Manager

**Company Overview**

With 80,000 customers across 150 countries, UKG is the largest U.S.based private software company in the world. And we’re only getting started. Ready to bring your bold ideas and collaborative mindset to an organization that still has so much more to build and achieve? Read on.

At UKG, you get more than just a job. You get to work with purpose. Our team of U Krewers are on a mission to inspire every organization to become a great place to work through our award-winning HR technology built for all.

Here, we know that you’re more than your work. That’s why our benefits help you thrive personally and professionally, from wellness programs and tuition reimbursement to U Choose — a customizable expense reimbursement program that can be used for more than 200+ needs that best suit you and your family, from student loan repayment, to childcare, to pet insurance. Our inclusive culture, active and engaged employee resource groups, and caring leaders value every voice and support you in doing the best work of your career. If you’re passionate about our purpose — people —then we can’t wait to support whatever gives you purpose. We’re united by purpose, inspired by you.

**About the Team**:
Product managers in the Pro Pay Pillar are essential members of our cutting-edge agile teams responsible for the delivery of mission critical payroll functionality in our innovative cloud based Human Capital Management (HCM) software solution UKG Pro suite.

**About the Role**:
We are searching for product manager who thrives on building great products and enjoys working in an agile environment to bring products from ideation to delivery.

This individual is skilled at serving and partnering with key internal and external stakeholders to understand customers’ problems and opportunities; and drive business outcomes for UKG and our customers. This individual is an analytical thinker with payroll domain knowledge and strong customer focus, who is accountable for researching, analyzing and documenting clear and actionable business requirements and business outcomes.

This role requires talent and passion for solving problems, innovation and collaboration while leading high profile initiatives and driving business outcomes. Skills essential to this role are strong analysis, organization, written and verbal communication, leadership, problem solving, product strategy and sound decision-making based on data.

Core competencies that a product manager must possess include accountability, collaboration, team oriented, growth mindset, customer value creation, learning agility, operational excellence and service ownership.

**Responsibilities**:

- Owns definition and direction of complex features and enhancements that have cross domain dependencies for the Pro suite
- Defines and documents stories and conditions of acceptance with other stakeholders input including UX Designers and Developers
- Defines and validates proposed value with customers and prospects using research, prototypes, and designs and drafts expected business outcomes
- Identifies and manages cross team dependencies when leading a feature through the development process and delivery
- Participates in roadmap building sessions and dialogue with Product and Engineering leaders
- Works with internal and external stakeholders to understand the HCM/Payroll business problems our customers face and the jobs they need to complete as part of their specific roles
- Responsible for requirement prioritization and evaluating trade-offs
- Communicates with multiple stakeholders including customers, prospects, as well as various internal stakeholders and synthesize multiple inputs to ensure business problem or opportunity is fully understood
- Helps ensure customers and the organization is ready for new product releases by leading knowledge transfer events (as needed)
- Works with UKG Learning team to curate content to help internal and external customers adopt new functionality
- Drives features through the development process by working with Engineering and user experience, prioritizes functional requirements, makes appropriate scope tradeoffs, and ensures completed capability satisfies customers’ needs

**Basic Qualifications**:

- 5+ years of experience in a SaaS Product Manager or Product Owner role
- Bachelor’s Degree in a business discipline or equivalent combination of education and experience

**Preferred Qualifications**:

- 5 or more years of experience in payroll and/or tax
- Excellent interpersonal communication skills with ability to collaborate with development partners and communicate complex concepts to internal and external stakeholders
- Strong analytical skills with ability to quickly understand the dynamic business and evolving compliance needs