Principal Product Manager - Payroll

OneAdvanced; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

26 days holiday

Private medical insurance

Employee assistance programme

Pension plan

Volunteering days

Job summary

OneAdvanced in the UK seeks a Principal Product Manager (Payroll) to define and deliver the long-term product strategy and portfolio across payroll-related products. You will influence governance, pricing, and AI-enabled capabilities while aligning with executive leadership and cross-functional teams.

The role focuses on statutory payroll processes, compliance, and strategic product decisions to drive sustainable growth and market differentiation from Birmingham.

Qualifications

• Expert-level domain expertise in UK payroll compliance and legislation.
• Experience with statutory payroll reporting and integrations with HMRC or pension providers is valued.
• Strong understanding of product strategy, portfolio management, and enterprise operating models.
• Hands-on experience with pricing strategy, revenue optimization, and governance.
• Familiarity with SaaS, platform, and digital product ecosystems.
• Knowledge of AI-enabled payroll capabilities and responsible AI governance.

Responsibilities

• Define the long-term product strategy and portfolio roadmap across payroll products.
• Lead executive-level customer engagement to inform strategy and investments.
• Set portfolio investment priorities and decision rights (build/buy/partner/AI).
• Own portfolio commercial strategy including pricing and revenue growth.
• Establish analytics, data governance, and regulatory compliance for AI-enabled products.
• Lead go-to-market strategy and timing aligned with UK legislative milestones.

Skills

Payroll domain expertise

UK payroll compliance

Strategic product management

Stakeholder engagement

AI governance

Data governance

Regulatory compliance

Pricing strategy

Education

CIPP qualification

Job description

Join OneAdvanced

The Principal Product Manager is a senior individual contributor within the product management function, accountable for defining and delivering the long-term product, customer, commercial, and technology strategy across a portfolio of products, business domains, or product ecosystems. The role is responsible for shaping investment priorities, product direction, market positioning, commercial outcomes, and organisational product capability.

The Principal Product Manager (Payroll) serves as the recognised authority on payroll and adjacent workflows, influencing business strategy, product operating models, AI adoption, governance frameworks, and cross-functional decision making. Working across executive leadership, engineering, design, commercial, legal, and customer communities, the role ensures the portfolio delivers sustainable commercial growth, market differentiation, customer value, and strategic advantage.

What You Will Do

• Maintain payroll domain expertise, keeping abreast of current and future proposed legislative compliance, evolving market trends and the competitor landscape
• Define and own the long-term product strategy, vision, and portfolio roadmap across multiple products, sectors, or business domains.
• Establish and govern portfolio-wide product management frameworks, delivery standards, prioritisation models, and ways of working.
• Lead executive-level customer engagement, ensuring strategic customer insight directly influences business, investment, and portfolio decisions.
• Define portfolio investment priorities and make build, buy, partner, or AI-enable decisions that shape future product capability and competitive advantage.
• Own portfolio commercial strategy, including pricing, packaging, revenue growth, profitability, and long-term market positioning.
• Hold accountability for portfolio commercial performance, business outcomes, and the sustainable growth of product revenues.
• Partner with executive leaders across Product, Engineering, Commercial, Finance, Legal, Marketing, and Customer functions to align strategic priorities and investments.
• Define portfolio-wide analytics, performance measurement, data governance, and insight frameworks to enable strategic decision-making.
• Establish organisational standards and governance for AI-enabled products, responsible AI, regulatory compliance, and emerging technology adoption, including AI-enabled payroll capabilities such as anomaly detection, automated compliance checks, and predictive payroll insights.
• Lead portfolio-level go-to-market strategy, market entry decisions, product positioning, and commercial launch planning, ensuring release timing aligns with key legislative milestones such as UK tax year-end and other statutory reporting deadlines.
• Drive innovation strategy, transformational change initiatives, and future growth opportunities across the product portfolio.
• Explore new partnership opportunities to drive further revenue growth
• Mentor product management team and shape the capability, standards, culture, and future direction of the product management profession within the organisation.

What You Will Have

• Expert-level domain expertise in UK payroll compliance and legislation is essential. Experience and knowledge Irish and UK Public Sector payroll also desirable.
• Working knowledge of statutory payroll reporting and processes (e.g. RTI/FPS/EPS submissions, P45/P60, pensions auto-enrolment, Statutory Sick Pay, and National Minimum Wage) and experience integrating with HMRC, pension providers, and banking/BACS systems.
• Expert-level understanding of product strategy, portfolio management, and enterprise product operating models.
• Deep expertise in commercial product management, including pricing strategy, revenue optimisation, profit growth, business modelling, and investment governance.
• Advanced knowledge of SaaS, platform, digital product, and technology business models.
• Understanding of integrations with payroll systems (e.g. hr and time & attendance systems, benefits, pension providers, early wage access, pay verification etc).
• Expert understanding of customer insight methodologies, strategic market analysis, and product-led growth principles.
• Comprehensive knowledge of governance, compliance, security, risk management, and regulatory frameworks impacting digital products.
• Expert understanding of AI technologies, AI-enabled product ecosystems, responsible AI, governance frameworks, and regulatory obligations.
• Strong understanding of financial management principles including ROI, gross margin, investment prioritisation, and portfolio performance management.
• Deep awareness of market dynamics, competitive strategy, platform economics, ecosystem development, and emerging technologies.
• A recognised payroll qualification (e.g. CIPP - Chartered Institute of Payroll Professionals) is highly desirable.

All applicants must have the legal right to work in the UK at the time of application.

What We Do For You

Wellbeing that means something

• 26 days' holiday + bank holidays (and the option to buy more) plus 1 paid volunteering day every year
• Exceptional family leave, 26 weeks fully paid maternity/adoption, 4 weeks fully paid paternity, 22 weeks fully paid shared parental leave, plus 5 days paid bereavement leave
• Robust sick pay of up to 13 weeks full pay + 13 weeks half pay
• 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme for confidential support
• Private medical insurance for everyone, no medical-history exclusions

Financial benefits that have your back

• Performance-based rewards tailored to your role, from company-wide bonuses to OTE and commission structures
• Income protection: up to 75% salary for 5 years if you ever need it

Grow your career with us

• SkillsHub learning platform with leadership pathways, future-manager training, and a huge online library
• Access to external training and apprenticeships

Making a Difference

• MatchIt!Fundraise for a cause close to your heart and OneAdvanced will match part of the funding
• Pennies from Heavendonate the pennies from your pay check to help make a difference without lifting a finger

Plus plenty other flexible benefits to suit your lifestyle on our RewardHub, including:

• ULEV car scheme with 1,000+ models
• Dental insurance, Health Cash Plan, Critical Illness Cover, Partner Life Cover

Who We Are

At OneAdvanced, we are at the forefront of delivering sector-focused technology solutions that simplify complexity, drive meaningful progress, and help build a fairer, more inclusive society.

We're much more than a software company. We deliver SaaS workflow applications and IT services that power organisations across Education, Government, Healthcare, Legal, Manufacturing, Housing, Retail, and more.

OneAdvanced is one of the UK's largest business software and services companies. Based in Birmingham (The Mailbox), operating across the UK, Ireland, India, and Australia.

Our secure, scalable platform, including OneAdvanced AI, our private AI service for UK organisations, powers connectivity and innovation across critical sectors. Alongside our software are our IT services, including hosting, managed services, and application modernisation.

We strive to create an inclusive workplace that drives innovation and collaboration, championing diverse perspectives and ideas. Our Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) strategy is embedded in everything we do, guiding us to create meaningful impact for our people, our customers and the planet.

Proud to be recognised in the Financial Times’ Best Employers 2026 list for the second-year running, an independent and data led ranking based on employee feedback. Join us and become part of a team that's powering the world of work and making a real difference.

Join us and become part of a team that's powering the world of work and making a real difference.

Learn more at www.oneadvanced.com