Director of Product Management Strategy

ADP; Alpharetta (GA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

ADP seeks a Director of Product Management Strategy to shape the strategic vision for the HRO product portfolio, spanning payroll, benefits, tax and more. You will partner with ADP tech teams, clients and business leaders to deliver market-ready products.

You'll lead a cross-functional, agile team, translate roadmaps into tangible initiatives, ensure seamless implementation and strong client retention while driving growth and market share.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent.
• 15+ years of relevant experience.
• 5+ years of leadership experience.
• Experience leading large matrixed strategic initiatives.
• Consultant or strategy background preferred but not required.

Responsibilities

• Define product strategy and vision across functional lines (operations, service, implementation).
• Prioritize roadmaps, balance long-term strategy with market trends and client feedback.
• Represent ADP at industry events and client engagements.
• Lead and grow high-performing, diverse teams.
• Collaborate with product marketing and sales to integrate products into growth plans.
• Work with Client Service and Implementation to ensure smooth delivery and client experience.
• Communicate with senior leaders to align strategy across markets.

Skills

Leadership

Strategic thinking

Product strategy

Stakeholder management

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Agile

Job description

ADP is hiring a Director of Product Management Strategy.

• Are you inspired by transformation and making an impact on the lives of millions of people every day, even when it's messy?
• Are you empathic to client needs, your team, and internal partners to drive success while making hard calls and bold moves?
• Are you a technologist first and foremost who approaches every problem wearing that hat while going out of your way to champion development creativity and build diverse, engaged teams?

Well, this may be the role for you. Ready to make your mark?

In this role, you will be responsible for the strategic vision for the HRO product portfolio across various functional domains which include but are not limited to payroll, benefits, tax, sales, implementation etc. You will work closely with multiple ADP tech teams of developers, user experience experts, and others, in addition to clients and business leaders, to set the strategic product foundation to achieve market success. You'll also be accountable for something else significant: the uncompromising quality of our products.

Your day-to-day will focus on product strategy delivery and innovation with engineers, architects, your product management team, and clients to create easy-to-use, elegant solutions that present a seamless client experience. You will be responsible for taking what you deliver on your product roadmap into the marketplace. You will work with product marketing and the sales organization to integrate the products into sales plans and match your growth and market share targets. You will work with the Client Service and Implementation teams to ensure an effortless implementation process and client experience that results in strong client retention. You will collaborate and communicate with Senior Leaders and business partners to gain alignment and a consistent strategy across all markets.

To thrive in this role, your years of experience in cloud-based solutions with hands-on involvement in creating and executing successful strategies to deliver products to market in an Agile environment will be an essential factor in your success. You are skilled at clearly explaining ideas, creating compelling arguments, and delivering visual and verbal information to various audiences for maximum impact. You inspire teams with a clear vision and execution plan for complex initiatives while encouraging your teams to start new initiatives to innovate and explore new ways of doing things. You'll find exciting challenges here, get to solve real-world problems and make an impact on millions of people as we design what's next for ADP and the industry.

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What You'll Do

Learn more about ADP at jobs.adp.com

Here's What You Can Expect On a Typical Day

• Strategy and vision: You'll use your ability to create and deliver a vision and strategy working across functional lines (operations, service, implementation, etc.) and steering multimillion-dollar initiatives from inception to implementation. You will define product direction and prioritization, balancing long-term strategy, market and competitive trends, and client feedback. Represent ADP at industry events, conferences, and industry organizations.
• Revenue Generation: You have proven business and finance acumen, managing multi-million-dollar initiatives with solid revenue performance. This role is setting the path for continued revenue growth.
• Build teams that thrive: You have led and inspired teams that embrace change, continually innovate, and achieve performance standards.
• Operate with a product ownership mindset: You understand and reinforce a product culture and work autonomously. Your clients will always be close and accessible. Your decision-making processes will focus on client satisfaction, revenue, and growth. You will contribute to the evolution of our analytics products based on emerging client and business requirements with an eye on quality and continued operations 24/7.
• Task and Time Management. You'll start each day with your calendar in mind. As part of a global team, items will hit your inbox overnight that you'll address when you start your day, including meeting invites, important product information, and client communications.
• Information Analysis. You will constantly analyze client feedback, client voting patterns of product features, competitive analysis, macro-level trends, and writing queries on data in databases. This role is crucial to ADP's ability to deliver products that meet a market need, and that ability relies heavily on good information analysis.
• Communication: You are comfortable in front of leadership and have a compelling voice demonstrated through your executive presence and ability to lead change. From presentations of product changes to delivering news to stakeholders that a change they desire cannot happen, you will flex your communication muscle, which will take you a long way in this role.
• Grace Under Pressure: You thrive in a fast-moving, agile environment and are comfortable managing competing priorities and rallying an organization to change direction as necessary.

To Succeed In This Role

• You'll have a Bachelor's degree OR equivalent.
• You have 15+ years of experience in relevant skills gained and developed in the same or similar role.
• You have 5+ years of leadership experience
• You have experience large matrixed strategic initiatives to successful completion
• Consultant or Strategy experience preferred but not required

A little about ADP:

We are a comprehensive global provider of cloud-based human capital management (HCM) solutions that unite HR, payroll, talent, time, tax and benefits administration and a leader in business outsourcing services, analytics, and compliance expertise. We believe our people make all the difference in cultivating a down-to-earth culture that embraces our core values, welcomes ideas, encourages innovation, and values belonging. We've received recognition for our work by many esteemed organizations, learn more at ADP Awards and Recognition.

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Equal Employment Opportunity at ADP:

ADP is committed to an inclusive, diverse and equitable workplace, and is further committed to providing equal employment opportunities regardless of any protected characteristic including: race, color, genetic information, creed, national origin, religion, sex, affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, lawful alien status, ancestry, age, marital status, protected veteran status or disability. Hiring decisions are based upon ADP's operating needs, and applicant merit including, but not limited to, qualifications, experience, ability, availability, cooperation, and job performance.

Ethics at ADP:

ADP has a long, proud history of conducting business with the highest ethical standards and full compliance with all applicable laws. We also expect our people to uphold our values with the highest level of integrity and behave in a manner that fosters an honest and respectful workplace. Click https://jobs.adp.com/life-at-adp/ to learn more about ADP's culture and our full set of values.