Date posted: March 18, 2026
Pay: $95,500.00 - $125,500.00 per year
Overview
We are seeking a dynamic and strategic Product Lead providing direction and execution for a B2B platform that powers complex payroll calculations and compliance reporting for companies with prevailing wage and unionized workforces. Success in this role requires strong domain expertise in payroll, compliance, or construction accounting.
Responsibilities
- Own day-to-day product decisions and direction for core platform capabilities
- Define and prioritize work that balances platform stability, customer retention, and modernization
- Partner closely with Engineering to plan and execute the product roadmap
- Write clear epics, user stories, and acceptance criteria to support development and QA
- Manage and continuously refine the product backlog to ensure work is ready and prioritized
- Conduct customer research, workflow analysis, and validate pain points and solutions
- Triage defects and production issues, prioritizing based on customer impact and risk
- Drive improvements in system reliability, accuracy, and performance across complex payroll workflows
- Ensure changes do not disrupt existing customer processes or introduce breaking changes
- Own product requirements for integrations, including APIs, data mapping, and workflows
- Ensure integrations meet enterprise standards (security, reliability, scalability, backward compatibility)
- Partner with Support, Implementation, and other internal teams to reduce friction and improve tooling
- Use customer feedback, support trends, and data insights to inform product decisions and improve retention
- Lead release readiness and communication, ensuring teams and customers understand what’s changing and why
Requirements
- Required domain experience in one or more of the following: Payroll operations (especially complex or regulated payroll), Prevailing wage compliance and certified payroll reporting, Union payroll rules (fringes, classifications, rate changes), Construction payroll or compliance/accounting
- Extensive experience in product management for B2B SaaS products, ideally in payroll, fintech, HR, or compliance systems
- Proven ability to operate as a strong individual contributor, owning outcomes end-to-end
- Experience working with legacy systems and improving them without disrupting production environments
- Strong collaboration with Engineering and QA, including handling edge cases and technical tradeoffs
- Experience delivering integrations and APIs, including:
- REST APIs, webhooks, or file-based integrations
- Data mapping, validation, and error handling
- Reconciliation and operational support considerations
- Enterprise requirements such as security and versioning
- Strong written communication skills (requirements, release notes, stakeholder updates)
- Ability to work cross-functionally with Engineering, Support, Implementation, Sales, Finance, and domain experts
- Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, high-complexity environment where accuracy and reliability are critical
Benefits
- 401(k)
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
- Vision insurance
Work Location: Remote
