Product Lead, Employee lifecycle & HRIS Platform

What you will do

• Own the end-to-end roadmap for core employee lifecycle (Terminations, Transitions & Employee Apps and HRIS Platform) systems and surfaces, setting direction, prioritizing high-impact work, and making clear sequencing decisions that balance speed, scale, and correctness
• Lead the development of critical workflows that power employee changes across their lifecycle, ensuring these flows are intuitive for users while handling the underlying complexity required for accuracy across systems
• Drive enterprise readiness for high-stakes features by coordinating across partner teams and ensuring seamless interoperability with downstream systems and workflows
• Set and uphold a high bar for reliability and correctness, treating issues as product failures, driving root cause resolution, and continuously improving system robustness and user trust
• Define and own success metrics across the product surface, including workflow completion, system performance, reliability, and downstream impact, and use these to inform product strategy and execution
• Represent your product areas in cross-functional planning and leadership discussions, committing to clear outcomes, proactively identifying risks, and making trade-offs when priorities or constraints shift
• Operate as the central point of accountability across a distributed engineering team, building strong execution partnerships, driving alignment, and ensuring consistent delivery across time zones
• Communicate clearly with senior stakeholders, translating complex trade-offs into crisp decisions and ensuring visibility into progress, risks, and impact

What you will need

• 8+ years of product management experience, including significant ownership of platform or infrastructure products in a high-scale B2B environment
• A track record of delivering complex, high-impact products tied to enterprise outcomes, with experience driving execution across multiple teams under tight timelines
• Strong technical judgment across system design, including data modeling, APIs, and distributed systems; able to engage deeply with engineering and influence architectural decisions
• Experience owning reliability and performance for critical user-facing systems, with a high bar for correctness and a mindset of continuous improvement
• Strong product instincts in high-stakes environments, with the ability to make thoughtful trade-offs, sequence work effectively, and manage risk in complex systems
• Clear and direct communication style, with the ability to align engineering, design, and leadership through crisp thinking and structured decision-making
• Experience in HR, payroll, or other systems of record is a plus, particularly in areas involving data integrity, compliance, and auditability