Product Manager

About the role

What you'll do

• Define product strategy and roadmap for Entertainment payroll products based on good judgement combined with heavy user research, stakeholder interviews and analytics
• Drive the product- and business-planning processes for cross-functional teams
• Establish deep understanding of relationship between your product, various integrated products and system functionality/related business process(es)
• Work with internal and external stakeholders to understand business needs and articulate use cases in order to define product requirements
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams like Sales, Customer Success, Implementations, Support and Payroll Operations teams to gather and incorporate product feedback into the roadmap
• Identify and diagnose issues, document assumptions and design solutions
• Lead large-scale, cross-functional product initiatives including related system integrations
• Prioritize and manage an agile backlog of product features and enhancements in a demanding and constantly changing environment
• Work with the development team to ensure that all requirements are clearly communicated and understood through user stories/epics, PRDs, mockups, prototypes and other key artifacts
• Work closely with UX Design team to provide direction for overall design and usability of the product to ensure a delightful user experience
• Assess current competitor offerings and seek opportunities for differentiation
• Develop, implement, and maintain production timelines across multiple departments

What you'll bring

• 8+ years of Product management or Operations experience with enterprise entertainment payroll products
• Experience with entertainment industry payroll process
• Experience with union pay agreement understanding and their usage during crew onboarding , timekeeping and hours to gross calculations
• Effective at leading through influence across multiple competing stakeholder groups, with superior communication skills, both written and as a presenter
• Strong execution-focus and ability to create an actionable plan amongst a certain degree of ambiguity
• Detail-oriented with excellent problem solving and decision-making skills
• Previous experience collaborating with others to refine project, process, and or application needs from high level requirements
• Excellent communication and organization skills; ability to connect across various domains, skills, and disciplines
• Great balance of software business and technical savvy/aptitude with the ability to quickly understand customer problems
• Understand and have previous experience with HR platforms and core functionality would be a plus
• Ability to become a true product expert with the flexibility to respond to various business & team needs
• Experience working in an Agile environment and a great understanding of its most common practices / processes / tactics.