Product Manager

Summary

Join Employment Hero as a Product Manager and lead the product strategy, vision, and delivery roadmap. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver exceptional value to users. Drive product discovery, translate the vision into delivery and continuous improvement, and manage the product backlog strategically. Prioritize user stories, balance business goals with feasibility, and represent the customer in decision-making. Collaborate with designers, developers, sales, marketing, and support teams. Concisely communicate ideas and project status to stakeholders. This role requires a proven track record in product management, experience with agile software development, and strong analytical and communication skills. Employment Hero offers remote work flexibility, cutting-edge tools, a supportive team environment, ESOPs, and generous benefits including parental leave and learning opportunities.

Requirements

• Undergraduate degree (Business Systems, IT or Engineering disciplines preferred)
• 5+ years of experience in product management and strategy, with a proven record of successfully launching products
• 3+ years working experience with software development teams using agile (Scrum preferred)
• Innovative thinking with a passion for problem-solving and user-centric design
• Demonstrate ability to drive cross-functional alignment, motivation and coordinate teams
• Strong analytical skills, with a goal to be data-informed and metrics oriented
• Self-driven and able to thrive in fast-paced, high-growth, and uncertain situations
• Able to write well-defined specifications to clearly communicate expected product outcomes
• Track record of being able to critically analyse data samples (both qualitative and quantitative) and produce sensible insights to fuel product initiatives
• Able to challenge expectations and question the status quo on a day-to-day basis
• Hungry, creative, enthusiastic, and data-driven with a diverse skill set
• Experience validating ideas and generating user feedback through different customer research methodologies
• Proven commercial acumen with the ability to build financial models and execute on business drivers

Responsibilities

• Responsible for the delivery of the product vision and its success
• Drive the product discovery for features and initiatives on the roadmap
• Translate the product vision and roadmap through to delivery, operation and continuous improvement
• Monitor and adapt the product vision and roadmap as constraints are identified whilst staying true to the product vision
• Apply a strategic mindset to user story prioritisation and delivery
• Continually maintain a prioritised backlog of user stories
• Balance business goals, stakeholder expectations and customer desirability with what can feasibly be delivered (technically and within available time and budget)
• Represent the customer and business in decision-making prioritisation during release and sprint planning
• Able to identify, filter and prioritise customer complaints and feedback
• Collaborate with designers and product leadership team to plan, undertake and input results of testing and performance measurement into future release and roadmap planning
• Collaborate with our Product Designers to ensure we deliver best-in-class designs, and create appropriate user stories and acceptance tests
• Collaborate with Developers to ensure the product vision and designed solutions are feasible and viable
• Work with Sales and Marketing to develop launch collateral with the aim of educating and sharing Product’s vision with customers and prospects alike
• Collaborate with Professional Services and Support teams to create rollout and implementation plans for existing customers
• Concisely explain ideas, issues or project status to key stakeholders and the wider organisation at an appropriate level of business or technical detail
• Ensure product requirements are gathered accurately and are communicated transparently to the product squad
• Be able to host, conduct and articulate presentations to the whole organisation, including C-level execs, as well as corporate partners and external customers

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with HR and/or payroll software
• Knowledge of how global leave management is administered
• International product experience

Benefits

• You will work remotely, with the flexibility to own your time and impact
• You will access cutting-edge tools to amplify your work, knowledge and outputs
• You’ll surround yourself with ambitious, outcome-driven colleagues who challenge you to do the best work of your life
• You’ll own ESOP (employee share options) in one of the world’s fastest-growing tech companies
• You’ll also have access to a wide range of benefits that includes - a very generous parental leave policy, subsidised egg freezing (so you can make the choice that’s right for you, on your terms), a WFH office expense budget, and outstanding learning & development opportunities