Product Management Director

Key Responsibilities

• Your day-to-day will focus on product delivery and innovation with engineers, architects, your product management team, and clients to create easy-to-use, elegant solutions that present a seamless client experience.
• You will be responsible for taking what you deliver on your product roadmap into the marketplace.
• You will work with product marketing and the sales organization to integrate the products into sales plans and match your growth and market share targets.
• You will collaborate with the Client Service and Implementation teams to ensure an effortless implementation process and client experience that results in strong client retention.
• You will collaborate and communicate with Senior Leaders and business partners to gain alignment and a consistent strategy across all markets.

Here’s what you can expect on a typical day:

• Strategy and vision: You’ll use your ability to create and deliver a vision and strategy working across functional lines (operations, service, implementation, etc.) and steering multimillion-dollar initiatives from inception to implementation. You will define product direction and prioritization, balancing long-term strategy, market and competitive trends, and client feedback. Represent ADP at industry events, conferences, and industry organizations.
• Build teams that thrive: You have led and inspired teams that embrace change, continually innovate, and achieve performance standards.
• Operate with a product ownership mindset: You understand and reinforce a product culture and work autonomously. Your clients will always be close and accessible. Your decision-making processes will focus on client satisfaction, revenue, and growth. You will contribute to the evolution of our analytics products based on emerging client and business requirements with an eye on quality and continued operations 24/7.
• Task and Time Management: You’ll start each day with your calendar in mind. As part of a global team, items will hit your inbox overnight that you’ll address when you start your day, including meeting invites, important product information, and client communications.
• Information Analysis: You will constantly analyze client feedback, client voting patterns of product features, competitive analysis, macro-level trends, and writing queries on data in databases. This role is crucial to ADP’s ability to deliver products that meet a market need, and that ability relies heavily on good information analysis.
• Communication: You are comfortable in front of leadership and have a compelling voice demonstrated through your executive presence and ability to lead change. From presentations of product changes to delivering news to stakeholders that a change they desire cannot happen, you will flex your communication muscle, which will take you a long way in this role.
• Grace Under Pressure: You thrive in a fast-moving, agile environment and are comfortable managing competing priorities and rallying an organization to change direction, as necessary.

Qualification & Requirements

• To thrive in this role, your 10 plus years of experience in cloud-based solutions with hands-on involvement in creating and executing successful platform, shared services, components and UX system design strategies to deliver products to market in an Agile environment will be an essential factor in your success.
• You are skilled at clearly explaining ideas, creating compelling arguments, and delivering visual and verbal information to various audiences for maximum impact. You inspire teams with a clear vision and execution plan for complex initiatives while encouraging your teams to start new initiatives to innovate and explore new ways of doing things. You’ll find exciting challenges here, get to solve real-world problems and make an impact on millions of people as we design what’s next for ADP and the industry.
• Experience: You have 10 years of experience in relevant skills gained and developed in the same or similar role.

To succeed in this role:

• Deep Product Management & Product Leadership experience. Know the craft of Product.
• 10+ years of Platform, Shared Servies, UX System design and Cloud-Based Services experience
• Bachelor’s degree OR equivalent in Computer Science or related Technology field of study
• Experience in managing in complex, platform-based product & services with agile, design-driven, user-centered product and development teams.
• Be comfortable in designing, creating and delivering c-level presentations on platform, product, opportunities, challenges, GTM strategy & timelines, etc.
• Persevere through economic, industry, and organizational challenges while keeping a positive, encouraging and supportive attitude w/ the team.

Benefits

Base salary offers for this position may vary based on factors such as location, skills, and relevant experience. Some positions may include additional compensation in the form of bonus, equity or commissions. We offer the following benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Matched Retirement Savings, Wellness Program, Short-and Long-Term Disability, Charitable Contribution Match, Holidays, Personal Days & Vacation, Paid Volunteer Time Off, and more.

Actual compensation will not be less than the applicable minimum wage or minimum exempt salary requirement under federal, state and local laws.