Global Payroll Product Manager - Country Compliance

Workday; Auckland; Hybrid; NZD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Workday is seeking a Senior Product Manager for Country Payroll to shape the product strategy and roadmap for payroll across multiple countries, ensuring compliance with local statutory, tax, and regulatory requirements while delivering a best-in-class experience for customers.

You will collaborate with legal, compliance, localization, and customer teams to translate regulations into clear product requirements, work with engineering and design to deliver features on time, and define KPIs to

Qualifications

• 6+ years of product management experience, with at least 2-3 years focused on payroll.
• Strong understanding of payroll processes, statutory compliance, and/or multi-country payroll operations.
• Proven track record of delivering complex, regulated products in a SaaS environment.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to work across legal, compliance, engineering, and customer-facing teams.
• Strong analytical skills and comfort working with data to inform product decisions.
• Experience with agile product development methodologies.
• Bachelor's degree required; MBA or equivalent experience a plus.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for country-specific payroll functionality
• Partner with legal, compliance, and localization teams to ensure statutory and regulatory requirements are met across supported countries
• Translate complex payroll regulations and customer needs into clear product requirements and user stories
• Work closely with engineering, design, and QA to deliver payroll features on time and with high quality
• Engage with customers, partners, and internal stakeholders (implementation, support, sales) to gather feedback and prioritize the backlog
• Monitor market trends, competitive landscape, and regulatory changes affecting country payroll
• Define and track success metrics (KPIs) for payroll product initiatives
• Support go-to-market activities, including documentation, training, and release communications

Skills

Product management

Payroll

Stakeholder management

Data analysis

Agile methodologies

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

MBA or equivalent

Tools

Workday

ADP

SAP

Job description

Workday is seeking a Senior Product Manager for Country Payroll to shape the product strategy and roadmap for payroll across multiple countries, ensuring compliance with local statutory, tax, and regulatory requirements while delivering a best-in-class experience for customers.

You will collaborate with legal, compliance, localization, and customer teams to translate regulations into clear product requirements, work with engineering and design to deliver features on time, and define KPIs to