Payroll jobs in United States

Client: Our Client
Position: Staff Product Manager, Labor Time Tracking & Payroll

Our Client is seeking a Staff Product Manager to own the strategy, execution, and evolution of the labor time tracking, payroll readiness, labor costing, and mobile time-entry product domains. This senior individual-contributor role is responsible for defining the product vision, improving financial accuracy, and delivering seamless experiences for both field and back-office users.

Our Client is a fast-growing technology organization serving operationally complex industries. The company builds modern software solutions that streamline field and office workflows, enabling customers to run more efficient and more profitable operations. This role joins a rapidly scaling product team that values strong execution, deep domain understanding, and collaborative leadership.

The Staff Product Manager will lead all product areas related to Labor Time Tracking, Payroll Readiness, Labor Costing, mobile worker experiences, financial data workflows, and supporting APIs and integrations. This includes ownership of time capture, approvals, exceptions, audit trails, and the data foundation required for payroll accuracy and costing integrity.

This position serves as the senior individual-contributor authority across all payroll and time-tracking workflows. Intake guidance indicates that priority areas may include integrations, mobile UX, costing accuracy, and API expansion. Year-one outcomes should emphasize reducing payroll-cycle friction, improving integration reliability, and strengthening labor data quality.

• Deeply understand customer workflows across time tracking, payroll, costing, and field operations.
• Develop the long-term strategy and roadmap for time tracking, payroll readiness, and labor costing capabilities.
• Identify opportunities to reduce friction and improve the mobile time-entry experience for field technicians.
• Shape architectural decisions around APIs, data models, and financial workflows.

• Write clear PRDs, requirements, acceptance criteria, and supporting documentation.
• Partner with Engineering, Design, QA, and Implementation to deliver high-quality features.
• Manage ongoing prioritization, roadmap execution, release planning, and customer rollout.
• Ensure smooth user adoption and effective internal communication during launches.

• Collaborate with CX, Sales, Implementation, and other internal teams to represent customer needs.
• Support go-to-market readiness for upcoming product enhancements.
• Serve as a subject matter expert for time tracking, payroll, and labor costing.

• Own APIs related to time, payroll hours, labor costing, and expenses.
• Guide integration pathways with payroll, ERP, and accounting systems.
• Partner with Engineering to drive accuracy, scalability, and workflow integrity.

• Create intuitive mobile and web experiences that streamline time capture and review.
• Support implementation teams with customer rollout and acceptance testing.
• Ensure workflows reflect financial and operational best practices.

• 5+ years of Product Management experience.
• Experience with time tracking, payroll systems, ERP workflows, costing, labor management, or construction tech.
• Strong understanding of workflow-heavy, data-sensitive product areas.
• Experience with APIs and third-party integrations.
• Strong product discovery, research, and communication skills.
• Experience with lean agile methodologies.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, Business, or related field.

Nice to Have:

• Experience building mobile or consumer-facing applications.
• Background in ERP, payroll technology, or construction software.
• Startup or high-growth environment experience.
• Experience using analytics tools (e.g., Mixpanel, Pendo).
• Familiarity with financial best practices related to labor workflows.

• Remote flexibility available, with minimal travel.
• This is a net-new, high-impact role created due to organizational growth.
• Priority outcomes for year one include reducing payroll-cycle friction, improving integration reliability, and enhancing labor data accuracy.