Product Owner & Product Manager

Cbase Inc; Alpharetta (GA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Cbase Inc in Alpharetta, GA is seeking an experienced Product Owner for Payroll to drive feature definition, prioritization and roadmap alignment with client needs and market trends.

You will partner with architects, engineers, UX, and payroll SMEs to translate business requirements into scalable product capabilities, measure success, and guide cross-functional teams through AI-enabled development lifecycle.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in the Payroll domain.
• 3+ years as an enterprise B2B Product Owner or similar.
• Ability to translate complex requirements to technical specs.
• Experience with APIs, data flows, and cloud-based product development.
• Experience in Agile environments.
• Familiarity with AI-enabled development tools preferred.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with teams to understand responsibilities, issues, priorities, and dependencies.
• Drive technical solutioning and influence architecture for payroll capabilities.
• Lead AI-enabled DLC activities to move ideas to build-ready solutions.
• Document and prioritize product features and user stories for the roadmap.
• Build alliances across developers, architects, UX, and stakeholders to drive innovation.
• Define success metrics and use data to guide priorities and decisions.
• Communicate decisions, defend recommendations, and explain trade-offs to stakeholders.

Skills

Payroll domain expertise

Enterprise B2B Product Ownership

Agile product development

AI-enabled product development

Analytical problem solving

Job description

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 by understanding system integrations, APIs, data flows, dependencies, and downstream impacts. You’ll evaluate technical trade-offs to ensure solutions align with the broader HCM architecture and product strategy.
• Pre-Builder & AI-DLC: You’ll operate as a Pre-Builder within an 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. You’ll partner with engineering and UX teams 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 research industry and technology trends to improve the product. You’ll incorporate relevant insights into the product roadmap based on client needs, market trends, organizational goals, and the evolving technology landscape.
• Collaboration & Partnership: You’ll build 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, product managers, UX teams, payroll SMEs, and business stakeholders to drive continuous 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 guide 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 + years of experience as an enterprise B2B Product Owner, Technical Product Owner, 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.