Senior Staff Product Manager, Done-For-You Payroll Workflows

Intuit; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 206,000 - 278,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Cash bonus

Equity rewards

Employee benefits

Job summary

Intuit, Inc. is seeking a staff-level product manager to own the transition of payroll from manual entry to autopilot within a scale-ready platform.

You will partner with engineering, data science, design, and legal to shape automation that reduces errors and accelerates processing. You should have 5+ years of product management experience in high-stakes workflows, a technical degree, and comfort with ML/LLM-powered automation.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of product management experience in high-stakes workflows (payroll, tax, HR) or equivalent.
• Experience shipping complex AI-enabled products with measurable impact.
• Technical background enabling collaboration with engineering on system design.

Responsibilities

• Move payroll from manual entry to autopilot with anomaly flags and proactive approvals.
• Build background-only compliance for rate, deduction, and tax errors with auditable explanations.
• Redesign data model and permissions to improve automation reliability.
• Design agentic workflows that mirror a high-performing payroll admin while maintaining user overrides.
• Partner daily with engineering, data science, design, and legal to balance guardrails and modeling tradeoffs.
• Set and track metrics (fewer payroll exceptions, faster completion, higher retention) and align the roadmap.

Skills

Product management leadership

ML/LLM-powered automation

System design collaboration

Data-driven decision making

Ambiguity handling

Education

CS/EE/Statistics/Math degree

Tools

SQL

Python

ML tooling

Job description

Intuit is a global technology platform company that helps our customers and communities overcome their most important financial challenges. We help give over 50 million consumer, small business, and self-employed customers around the world the opportunity to prosper.

Mission

Build payroll where the system does the work — accurate, done-for-you payroll that Mid-Market and Enterprise teams stop having to think about.

Context

QuickBooks already runs at a scale most payroll products never reach — Intuit serves ~100M customers worldwide, and QuickBooks Online has 7M+ subscribers. We're taking the category we lead and turning it into the best payroll platform for Mid-Market and Enterprise, by automating time, pay, tax, compliance, and money movement end-to-end, with a mix of classic systems thinking and modern AI.

This is a staff-level role with real ownership over ambiguity. If you're hungry to ship, obsess over customer pain, and are passionate about simplifying complexity: this is a great role with real AI scope & real customer problems to solve.

Responsibilities

What you'll do

• Move the product from manual entry to autopilot: systems that detect when payroll is ready to run, flag anomalies, and drive approvals proactively instead of waiting for an admin to notice a problem.
• Build compliance that runs in the background — catching rate, deduction, and tax errors before they ship — and pair every automated change with an explanation an admin can actually audit.
• Redesign the underlying data model and permissions where they're the reason automation isn't reliable today.
• Design agentic workflows that act like a high-performing payroll admin, while keeping the customer able to see, override, or roll back anything the system did.
• Partner daily with engineering, data science, design, and legal — the tradeoffs live in the modeling and the guardrails, not in a spec you hand off.
• Set the metrics that prove this is working, and hold the roadmap accountable to them: fewer payroll exceptions, faster completion times, higher retention.

Qualifications

You might be a fit if

• You have 5+ years in product management and you've shipped in a domain where 'mostly right' isn't good enough — payroll, tax, HR, or another high-stakes regulated workflow.
• You've taken on more scope over time, not just more title, at companies known for technical rigor.
• You're genuinely comfortable in the details of ML/LLM-powered automation — what a model can be trusted to do unsupervised, what an eval loop is actually telling you, where a data pipeline breaks.
• You have a technical degree (CS, EE, Statistics, Math) or equivalent depth — you'll be partnering with engineering on system design, not just requirements.
• You can turn customer pain into an execution plan without waiting for someone to hand you a roadmap, and you move fast in ambiguity.
• Bonus: you've shipped an automated or agentic product and can point to what it did to trust and quality — not just what it did to velocity.

Intuit provides a competitive compensation package with a strong pay for performance rewards approach. This position may be eligible for a cash bonus, equity rewards and benefits, in accordance with our applicable plans and programs (see more about our compensation and benefits at Intuit®: Careers | Benefits). Pay offered is based on factors such as job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and work location. To drive ongoing fair pay for employees, Intuit conducts regular comparisons across categories of ethnicity and gender.

Mountain View $205,500 - $278,000