Senior Product Manager, Payroll Platform

bamboohr17; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote role available

Health insurance

Retirement plan with company match

Job summary

bamboohr17 is seeking an experienced product manager to own the direction of payroll systems and data foundations, guiding migrations and safeguarding payroll continuity, security, compliance, and downstream integrations.

You will define payroll data models, collaborate with security and engineering, maintain quarterly roadmaps, and report progress to leadership. This remote role requires 5+ years in product management in payroll or HCM and offers comprehensive benefits.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of product management experience, payroll or HCM preferred.
• Experience coordinating many downstream teams relying on shared contracts.
• Strong rollout discipline with parallel runs, rollback planning, and UAT.
• Technical fluency with database schemas, APIs, and migration mechanics.
• Ability to work with sensitive data and communicate risk to partners.

Responsibilities

• Plan and sequence legacy system migrations, weighing cost and risk.
• Set direction for payroll data models and evaluate event-driven vs full resync.
• Define access controls and audit practices with security partners.
• Own payroll data retention positions and track regulatory changes.
• Measure system capabilities and document decisions for leadership.
• Maintain quarterly roadmap and lead weekly leadership updates.

Skills

Product management

Cross-functional coordination

Rollout discipline

Technical fluency

Compliance awareness

Tools

Database schemas

APIs

Migration tooling

Job description

Role overview

Own product direction for the systems and shared data foundations that support payroll processing, including synchronization, calculations, payment operations tools, and the payroll data model. The role guides a gradual transition from legacy systems to a developing replacement while protecting payroll continuity, security, compliance, and downstream integrations.

Responsibilities

• Plan and sequence legacy system migrations, including the cost and operational risk of keeping older tools running.
• Set the direction for payroll data models with engineering, comparing event-driven updates with full resynchronization and validating against shared entity models.
• Define permissions, audit practices, rollout controls, and least-privilege access in coordination with security partners.
• Own payroll data retention positions and track regulatory changes with governance, risk, and compliance teams.
• Measure system capabilities and latency, document findings, and turn decisions into clear written guidance.
• Maintain a quarterly roadmap, weekly leadership updates, and operational readiness coordination.

Requirements

• 5+ years of product management experience; payroll, HCM, or adjacent platform work is strongly preferred.
• Experience coordinating many downstream teams that rely on shared system contracts.
• Strong rollout discipline, including parallel runs, rollback planning, user acceptance testing, and release coordination.
• Technical fluency with database schemas, APIs, and migration mechanics.
• Comfort working with sensitive data and compliance partners; evidence-based judgment and proactive risk communication.

Nice to have

Experience guiding a legacy enterprise platform through migration, payments or banking operations, event-driven data architectures, or software development.

Benefits and work setup

Remote role available in the listed state. Benefits described include health, life, and disability insurance, four weeks of vacation, company holidays, parental and volunteer leave, retirement plan with up to 6% company match, and professional development support. Employment is contingent on background and credit checks.