P&T Program Manager (Product and Tech)

Paylocity is an award-winning provider of cloud-based HR and payroll software solutions. The P&T Program Manager will be responsible for guiding high-level goals and roadmaps, monitoring progress, and defining functional requirements for new products and infrastructure needs while collaborating across various teams to deliver impact.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and manage end-to-end technical product and infrastructure delivery plans and ensure on-time delivery
• Lead and coordinate efforts across various cross-functional teams, ensuring alignment with overarching program goals and facilitating seamless execution of projects
• Help define the roadmap and long-term strategy of the teams that you are working with
• Design measurements to track impact and drive internal process improvements
• Articulate the technology, requirements, goals and milestones of your team
• Develop and manage end-to-end project plans to ensure on-time delivery, provide day-to-day coordination, and quality assurance for tasks
• Identify gaps, dependencies and develop mitigation strategies
• Move fast in a flat organization by working in concert with technical program managers, product managers and engineers across to establish a shared vision for at-scale delivery
• Ongoing communication of planning, project status, issues and risks in a timely fashion to stakeholders
• Build bridges with product and infrastructure teams to discover adoption challenges, champion purpose use development and privacy/security product adoption
• Bring a strong sense of execution and ownership to the team
• Maintain a proactive, can-do attitude, willing to undertake any necessary task to support the team and ensure successful project outcomes
• Drive continuous improvement in our tooling and processes to drive automation

Requirements:

• 5+ years of network engineering, software engineering, systems engineering, hardware engineering, or technical product/program management experience
• Project Manager Professional (PMP) certification required
• Experience delivering tech programs or products from inception to delivery
• Knowledge of user needs, gathering requirements, and defining scope
• Experience operating autonomously across multiple teams, demonstrated critical thinking, and thought leadership
• Communication experience and experience working with technical management teams to develop systems, solutions, and products
• Organizational, coordination and multi-tasking experience
• Analytical and problem-solving experience with large-scale systems
• Experience establishing work relationships across multi-disciplinary teams and multiple partners in different time zones
• Experience working with product teams to build and deliver end-to-end customer focused products with technical knowledge of the underlying platforms and technologies
• Experience with tools like JIRA, Product Board, A-ha!, Version One or similar tools