[Remote] Sr Director Product Management

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Dayforce is hiring a Senior Director, Product Management, Payroll to own the strategy and outcomes for its payroll business. The role leads and develops a product management team while shaping payroll strategy, driving execution with Engineering and Design, engaging customers, and using AI to improve the product and team’s work.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of product managers; build a culture of ownership, curiosity, and high standards
• Set clear goals, give direct feedback, and create growth paths so team members advance in their careers
• Raise product craft across the team, including discovery, requirements, and rapid prototyping and analysis
• Own the multi-year vision, strategy, and roadmap for Dayforce Payroll, grounded in market insight, competitive analysis, and customer outcomes
• Define where AI changes how payroll gets done, from pay preparation through validation and issue resolution, and ground it in measurable customer outcomes
• Make clear, data-backed investment and prioritization decisions, and explain the why to teams and executives
• Stay hands-on: show what good looks like in strategy, discovery, and customer work, lean in on the highest-stakes initiatives, and unblock delivery
• Partner closely with Engineering and Design to ship high-quality releases on schedule
• Own the payroll product backlog and release plans at a portfolio level, balancing compliance, innovation, and technical health
• Engage directly and regularly with customers, from executive sponsors to payroll practitioners, through advisory boards, roadmap sessions, and site visits
• Lead product response to customer escalations: diagnose root cause, commit to a plan, and communicate it with transparency
• Partner with Sales, Services, Support, Product Marketing, and Partners on deal support, launches, enablement, and implementation success
• Represent Dayforce Payroll with industry analysts and at customer and industry events
• Define and own business and product metrics: adoption, retention, attach and revenue impact, payroll accuracy, processing time, support case volume, and customer satisfaction
• Use data to measure outcomes, report progress to leadership, and course-correct quickly

Skills

• 10+ years in product management, including 5+ years leading product managers, with experience managing other people leaders
• Proven player-coach: you have built and developed high-performing teams while personally owning strategy and delivery
• Track record of setting product strategy for a complex, mission-critical product and turning it into shipped outcomes
• Proven track record bringing AI to market in enterprise products: identifying high-value use cases, shipping them, and scaling them with measurable customer impact
• AI-fluent in your own work: you use AI every day for research, analysis, prototyping, and decision-making, and you raise the bar for how your team works with it
• Strong metrics orientation: you define success measures up front and manage to business and product outcomes, not output
• Experience working directly with enterprise customers, including leading through escalations with executive stakeholders
• Skilled cross-functional leader who builds trust with Sales, Services, Support, Engineering, and Marketing
• Excellent written and verbal communication; comfortable presenting to executives, customers, and industry analysts
• Enterprise B2B SaaS experience
• Building products where accuracy and regulatory change shape the roadmap
• Experience leading distributed, global teams
• Ideally in HCM, ERP, or fintech
• Payroll or tax domain knowledge is a strong plus

Benefits

• Dayforce employees and their families are eligible to participate in medical, dental, vision, and life insurance.
• Dayforce employees are eligible to participate in a 401k plan (plus match).
• Unlimited Time Away From Work (in lieu of accrued vacation time).
• 10 paid US holidays.
• Up to 80 hours of paid sick time, subject to the terms of the applicable policy or program.
• 17 weeks of paid parental leave, subject to the terms of the applicable policy or program.
• Volunteer days.

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