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Senior Product Manager

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Position Purpose: We're seeking a Senior Product Manager to lead the strategic vision for Home Depot's payroll technology ecosystem, a core pillar of modernizing HR and delivering an accurate, frictionless pay experience for associates across the enterprise.

You'll drive two key priorities: 1) Setting the roadmap for Workday Payroll to scale with evolving business, compliance, and associate needs, and 2) Leading custom applications that extend Workday Payroll to close functional gaps, mature pay practices, and streamline adjacent workflows.

The ideal candidate is a strategic product leader who can design end-to-end solutions across a complex HR/payroll landscape, navigate cross-functional complexity and manage through ambiguity to create clarity.

Key

Responsibilities

50% Strategy & Planning:

• Seeks to empathize with and understand the end user deeply and use that knowledge to determine the fastest path to deliver value
• Translates business goals and end user needs into product strategy; communicates direction and product priorities to the development team, other matrixed teams, and third-party partners
• Identifies goals, metrics and analytics to determine product value; continually makes recommendations and refinements to the product backlog based on learnings
• Manages and grooms the product backlog; makes future decisions based on the value that will be delivered
• Partners with Finance to understand financial needs and assist in the creation of business plans for new opportunities
• Monitors research as well as the competitive landscape to recommend the best solutions and ensure that products remain or become best in class
• Ensures that product directions balance both the user needs and business goals of driving sales, improving efficiency and enhancing customer satisfaction

20% Delivery & Execution:

Formulates, tests and refines assumptions and hypotheses through user research and testing

Makes product decisions that drive value on a daily basis

Condenses complex technical concepts into non-technical language for stakeholders

30% People:

Fosters collaboration with team members (Engineering, UX, etc.) to drive value and identify and resolve impediments

Acts as a proponent of modern software development practices

Advocates for the end user and stakeholder by becoming associated with the product, empathizing with and understanding user needs

Direct Manager/Direct Reports: Typically reports to the Product Management Manager or Sr. Manager.

Travel

Requirements

Typically requires overnight travel less than 10% of the time.

Physical Requirements

Most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position and there is frequent opportunity to move about. On rare occasions there may be a need to move or lift light articles.

Working Conditions

Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable.

Minimum Qualifications

Must be eighteen years of age or older.

Preferred Qualifications

3 or more years of experience with Workday or other large-scale enterprise HRIS systems

Proficiency in communicating with and influencing functional and technical team members at all levels in the organization

Proficiency in working as part of a collaborative, cross-functional, modern software design and development team

Proficiency in creating actionable product roadmaps

Proficiency in creating well-articulated and clear product requirement documents (PRDs)

Proficiency in prioritizing backlogs to maximize value

Proficiency in conducting discovery, user research, and testing to understand needs, particularly across HR,

Proficiency in identifying goals, metrics and analytics to measure product value

Proficiency in conducting competitive research and analysis on payroll and HR technology solutions

Education

The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a bachelor's degree program or equivalent degree in a field of study related to the job.

Minimum Years of Work

Experience

3

Competencies:Balances Stakeholders: Anticipating and balancing the needs of multiple stakeholders

Business Insight: Applying knowledge of business and the marketplace to advance the organization's goals

Cultivates Innovation: Creating new and better ways for the organization to be successful

Customer Focus: Building strong customer relationships and delivering customer-centric solutions

Interpersonal Savvy: Relating openly and comfortably with diverse groups of people

Nimble Learning: Actively learning through experimentation when tackling new problems, using both successes and failures as learning fodder

Organizational Savvy: Maneuvering comfortably through complex policy, process and people-related organizational dynamics

Situational Adaptability: Adapting approach and demeanor in real time to match the shifting demands of different situations

Empathy: Understands the needs of multiple stakeholders and is responsive in meeting their needs with the most optimal resolution