[Remote] Senior Product Manager, Payroll Platform

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. BambooHR is hiring a Senior Product Manager to lead modernization of its payroll platform, including system migrations, payroll data-model redesign, and alignment with shared platform services. The role also owns payroll access and audit controls, compliance and retention decisions, and roadmap coordination with engineering, security, and payroll services.

Responsibilities

• Own payroll platform modernization: decide what moves from old operational tools to their replacement, and when, and sequence each step so payroll is never at risk
• Price the cost of keeping old systems running, including support escalations, manual fixes, and the risk of a missed pay date
• Own the product half of the payroll data-model redesign, weighing event-driven streaming against the current full-resync approach, jointly with payroll engineering leadership. Validate it against the company's canonical entity models using real client examples
• Own access and audit discipline on payroll systems: permission granularity, audit posture, least-privilege carve-outs, deny-by-default rollouts, and feature-flag discipline. Coordinate with the security organization and build on the platform's existing ways of recording who did what
• Own compliance and retention for payroll: data retention positions, regulatory changes that affect payroll systems, and the audit interface with governance, risk, and compliance, documented as decisions rather than tribal knowledge
• Test long-held assumptions about what payroll systems can and cannot do, publish the real limits and latency curves, and write them up so leadership can act on them
• Run a payroll roadmap review cadence: a quarterly plan with dates, a weekly written status for leadership, and coordination with payroll services on operational readiness

Skills

• You feel aligned with the BambooHR values
• 5+ years of product management experience
• You have coordinated with downstream consumers at scale: dozens of teams reading one system's contracts
• Rollout discipline is a reflex for you: parallel runs, instant rollback, user acceptance testing, and release trains
• You're technical enough to discuss database schemas, APIs, and migration mechanics with engineers as a peer
• You're comfortable in regulated, sensitive-data domains and treat compliance counterparts as partners
• You hold evidence standards in a domain full of inherited assumptions: you measure before you assert, and you write decisions down
• You flag risks before deadlines
• HCM, payroll, or payroll-adjacent platform experience is strongly preferred
• Experience stewarding a legacy enterprise platform through a successor migration
• Payments, money-movement, or banking-file operational experience
• Familiarity with event-driven data architectures that replace batch and resync patterns
• A developer background

Benefits

• A Great Company Culture that has been recognized by multiple organizations like Inc, and Salt Lake Tribune
• Comprehensive health, life, and disability insurance
• Generous leave policies that include 4 weeks of vacation, 12 company holidays, parental leave, and volunteer time off
• 401k plans with up to 6% company match
• $2000 Paid-Paid Vacation bonus
• EAP through Headspace
• Remote position available in Utah
• Professional development

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