Product Manager

Symphony Solutions; Alpharetta (GA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work from home options

Job summary

Symphony Solutions in Alpharetta, GA is seeking a Product Manager with deep Payroll domain expertise to lead end-to-end product development in a hybrid work setting. You will collaborate with Pre-Builders, UX designers, architects, and developers to shape payroll capabilities, ensure compliance, and optimize cost efficiency.

You will drive technical solutioning, define roadmaps, and align stakeholders across engineering and business teams while leveraging AI-enabled tools to accelerate discovery

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in the Payroll domain.
• 3–5 years as an enterprise B2B Product Manager, Technical Product Manager, Business Analyst, or implementation/service consultant.
• Demonstrated ability to translate complex business requirements into functional and technical requirements.
• Working knowledge of enterprise architecture concepts, APIs, system integrations, data flows, and modern cloud-based product development.
• Experience in Agile product development environments.
• Experience with AI-enabled product development tools or development lifecycle practices is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Scrum: align with teams to understand responsibilities, identify issues, resolve dependencies, and set priorities.
• Technical Solutioning & Architecture: drive solutioning, translate requirements into scalable solutions, evaluate trade-offs.
• Pre-Builder & AI-DLC: operate as a Pre-Builder within AI-enabled development lifecycle to accelerate discovery and prototyping.
• Product Vision & Roadmap: document and prioritize features and user stories for payroll capabilities.
• Collaboration & Partnership: build alliances across multiple teams to drive innovation and outcomes.
• Metrics: measure product effectiveness, define success metrics, report outcomes, and use data to drive priorities.
• Alignment: communicate decisions to stakeholders and defend recommendations.

Skills

Payroll domain

Product management

Agile

APIs

System integrations

Job description

Job Role: Product Manager

Location: Alpharetta, GA (Hybrid)

As a Product Manager, you will work alongside a passionate and creative team of Pre-Builders, UX designers, architects and developers to bring our next-generation Payroll capabilities to market. You’ll make them easier to use while helping our clients stay compliant, manage costs, and save time. You will work closely with internal partners, clients, architects, developers, and subject matter experts across the entire product development lifecycle – from problem definition and technical solutioning through design, development, launch, adoption and continuous improvement.

To thrive in this role, you must have deep Payroll domain expertise, strong technical acumen, take command of your product, lead multiple teams’ efforts, and be a deep listener who can ask the right clarifying questions to understand the problems your stakeholders are trying to solve.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

Here’s what you can expect on a typical day:

• Scrum: You’ll start each day working with teams to understand responsibilities, identify issues, resolve dependencies, and communicate priorities. You’ll work in a modern, AI-enabled product development environment.
• Technical Solutioning & Architecture: You’ll partner closely with architects and engineering teams to drive technical solutioning and influence architectural decisions for complex payroll capabilities. You’ll help translate business and product requirements into scalable technical solutions, understanding system integrations, APIs, data flows, dependencies, and downstream impacts, while evaluating technical trade-offs to ensure solutions align with the broader Lyric HCM architecture and product strategy.
• Pre-Builder & AI-DLC: You’ll operate as a Pre-Builder within companies AI-enabled development lifecycle (AI-DLC), helping move ideas from problem definition to build-ready solutions. You’ll leverage AI-enabled tools and practices to accelerate discovery, requirements definition, solution design and prototyping, partnering with engineering and UX to validate concepts early, clarify technical requirements, identify edge cases, and reduce ambiguity before development begins.
• Product Vision & Roadmap: You’ll document and prioritize product features and user stories while translating complex payroll and business requirements into actionable product capabilities. You’ll continuously learn and research new industry and technology trends to make our products better. You’ll incorporate what makes sense into your product roadmap based on our clients, the market, companies goals, and the evolving technology landscape.
• Collaboration & Partnership: You’ll create strong alliances with diverse stakeholders and ensure everyone is working toward shared outcomes and communicating effectively. You’ll collaborate across multiple teams – including developers, architects, other product managers, UX teams, payroll SMEs and business stakeholders – to continually drive innovation and make the product the best it can be.
• Metrics: You’ll measure product effectiveness, define and monitor success metrics, report outcomes, and use data and client insights to drive priorities and product decisions.
• Alignment: You’ll communicate with internal and external stakeholders to articulate product and technical decisions, defend recommendations, explain trade-offs, and confidently answer critical business and technical questions.

EXPERIENCE REQUIRED

• 5+ years of experience in the Payroll domain, with strong payroll and product expertise.
• 3–5 years of experience as an enterprise B2B Product Manager, Technical Product Manager, Business Analyst, or implementation/service consultant.
• Demonstrated ability to translate complex business requirements into functional and technical requirements and work effectively with architecture and engineering teams.
• Working knowledge of enterprise architecture concepts, APIs, system integrations, data flows, and modern cloud-based product development.
• Experience working in Agile product development environments, partnering closely with engineering, UX, architecture and business stakeholders.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to understand complex systems, identify dependencies, evaluate trade-offs and drive decisions.
• Experience with AI-enabled product development tools or development lifecycle practices is preferred.

Flexible work from home options available.