Product Manager Embedded Payroll Services

Hackajob Ltd; Newcastle upon Tyne; Hybrid; GBP 61,000 - 101,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental coverage

Vision coverage

Flexible work patterns

Sage Foundation volunteer time

Professional development

Job summary

Hackajob Ltd. is seeking a Platform Product Manager for HR & Payroll services, focusing on APIs and scalable architecture. You will build for diverse personas including product teams, accountants, partners, and developers, and deepen partner integrations.

Work closely with Engineering, Data, Compliance, and Go-to-Market teams to shape the roadmap, ensure regulatory alignment, and drive growth with an emphasis on AI-enabled productivity.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years of product management experience, preferably in HR, payroll, or compliance-heavy domains.
• Strong analytical skills with ability to interpret data, regulatory requirements and customer insight for decision making.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management across technical and non-technical audiences.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and workstreams in a fast-paced environment.
• Genuine interest in AI and applying it to improve product capability and team productivity.
• Experience with APIs, integrations, platform services, partner ecosystems, or embedded software.
• Familiarity with payroll, tax, or employment law compliance across markets.
• Experience with product-led growth and usage-driven prioritisation.

Responsibilities

• Own HR & Payroll domain services as a platform product manager, focusing on APIs and scalable architecture.
• Develop for a broad set of personas including product teams, accountants, partners, and developers.
• Understand payroll domain services architecture, roadmap, and partner integrations.
• Collaborate with Engineering, Data, Compliance, and Go-to-Market teams and support partner ecosystem.
• Contribute to HR & Payroll services roadmap balancing compliance, partner needs, scalability, and growth.
• Engage with partners and customers to validate assumptions and identify gaps.
• Translate requirements into measurable outcomes for the team.
• Contribute end-to-end to the embedded payroll services roadmap.
• Align compliance priorities with the team and reflect AI-driven productivity opportunities.
• Measure success via adoption, revenue, retention, roadmap quality, partner satisfaction, and feature briefs.

Skills

Product management

API integrations

Stakeholder management

Analytical thinking

Communication

AI interest

Compliance knowledge

Growth mindset

Tools

Sage

APIs

Job description

Salary: £61,000 - 101,000 per year

Requirements

• Minimum 3 years of product management experience, preferably within HR, payroll, or a related compliance-heavy domain
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to interpret data, regulatory requirements, and customer insight to make well-reasoned product decisions
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills across technical and non-technical audiences
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and workstreams in a fast-paced environment
• A genuine interest in AI and how advances in technology can be applied to improve both product capability and team productivity
• Experience working with APIs, integrations, platform services, partner ecosystems, or embedded software
• Familiarity with compliance and regulatory requirements in payroll, tax, or employment law across one or more markets
• Experience with product-led growth approaches and usage-driven prioritisation

Responsibilities

• Work on our HR & Payroll domain services as a platform product manager, focusing on APIs, reusable services, and scalable architecture
• Build for a broad set of personas, including our product teams, accountants, partners, and developer communities
• Understand the existing payroll domain services, including their architecture, roadmap, partner integrations, and internal and external customers
• Build relationships with Engineering, Data, Compliance, and Go-to-Market colleagues, and support the partner and developer ecosystem
• Contribute to and help shape the HR & Payroll services roadmap, balancing compliance requirements, partner needs, platform scalability, and growth outcomes
• Engage directly with partners and customers to validate assumptions and identify gaps
• Brief requirements into the team with well-defined, measurable outcomes
• Contribute end-to-end to the embedded payroll services roadmap
• Sequence and align compliance priorities with the team
• Develop and reflect a clear point of view on where AI can drive productivity improvements in our work and services
• Measure success through adoption, revenue, retention, roadmap quality, partner satisfaction, clear feature briefs, and product-led growth metrics

Technologies

• AI
• Embedded
• Support
• Product Manager
• Sage

More

hackajob is partnering directly with Sage to hire for this role. We offer a hybrid working environment requiring 3 days per week in our Newcastle office. You will join our HR & Payroll Services Product Management team and work closely with Engineering, Data, Compliance, and Go-to-Market colleagues, as well as internal product teams, external partners, accountants, and developers. We provide comprehensive health, dental and vision coverage, a work away scheme for up to 10 weeks a year, ongoing training and professional development, paid volunteer time through Sage Foundation, and flexible work patterns to support stability, flexibility, and balance.

last updated 40 week of 2026