Lead Product Manager

About the Role
We have an exceptional opportunity for a Lead Product Manager to drive the future of our Time and Labor product line within the Pro WFM Suite. In this critical individual contributor role, you will own the identification, design, delivery, and optimization of solutions for a core product used by millions of global employees each month across our human capital management and workforce management applications.

You will be highly collaborative, working with a diverse set of partners: external customers such as Buyers, Admin users, HR users, and employees, as well as internal customers who implement and deliver our products. As an expert in your product area, you will serve as the product lead for cross-functional development teams, guiding initiatives and ensuring successful execution for mature and evolving global products within the Time and Labor domain.

As a Lead Product Manager, your focus will be on deeply understanding the Time and Labor market, customer needs, technical possibilities, and business impact. You will possess a strategic perspective to identify opportunities for innovation, efficiency, and enhanced user experience within our time tracking, scheduling, absence management, and related modules. Exceptional communication, influence, and collaboration skills are paramount. You will actively engage with customers (internal and external), engineering, design, and other stakeholders to uncover latent needs, define innovative solutions, and build consensus around the product roadmap.

You will be responsible for shaping and executing the overall vision for specific areas within the Time and Labor product line, incrementally delivering tangible value to our customers. This involves continuous learning from and engaging with our customers, partners, and the broader Product organization. You will manage your product features, ensuring each release is successful by fostering strong team collaboration, continuous improvement, and representing the unequivocal voice of the customer. You will own the direction of features within your area, clearly define product metric goals, and establish the right mechanisms to collect, track, report, and react to the data, demonstrating a balance of qualitative and quantitative observations to fuel ongoing learning and customer centricity.

Key Responsibilities:
• Product Strategy & Roadmap: Own and define the strategic direction, roadmap, and feature prioritization for specific components within the Time and Labor product line, aligning with overall business objectives and market needs.
• Customer & Market Insight: Conduct in-depth customer research (qualitative and quantitative), market analysis, and competitive analysis to deeply understand user needs, pain points, and emerging opportunities in Time and Labor.
• Requirements & Definition: Translate strategic objectives and user needs into detailed product requirements, user stories, use cases, and acceptance criteria.
• Cross-Functional Product Leadership: Act as the directly responsible individual (DRI) for product within agile development teams. Collaborate closely with engineering, UX/UI design, quality assurance, and other stakeholders to ensure successful and timely delivery of features.
• Data-Driven Optimization: Define, track, and analyze key product metrics specific to Time and Labor. Use data-driven insights to inform product decisions, identify areas for improvement, and optimize existing features for maximum impact.
• Stakeholder Communication & Influence: Effectively communicate product strategy, roadmaps, and feature updates to various internal and external audiences, building consensus and enabling successful Go-to-Market strategies.
• Domain Expertise: Maintain a deep understanding of the Time and Labor landscape, including evolving regulatory requirements, industry best practices, and the application of AI technologies to workforce management.
• Customer Advocacy: Champion the voice of the customer throughout the product lifecycle, ensuring our solutions solve real-world challenges and deliver exceptional value and user experience.

Required Qualifications:
• 5+ years of progressive experience as a Product Manager, with significant experience operating at a senior individual contributor level (Senior Product Manager or equivalent) on a scaling SaaS application in an Agile development environment.
• Demonstrated experience in developing customer centricity and outcomes delivery through matrixed cross-functional Product Development teams.
• Proven ability to create and embody a culture of customer first in approaching user and business problems.
• Strong use of analytics, user research, and business cases to drive decisions and improve products in an enterprise SaaS setting.
• Comfortable and experienced presenting complex topics to various audiences and levels.
• Track record of balancing between discovering new product opportunities and delivering world-class product experiences.
• Strong discipline in the use and positioning of AI technologies within product solutions.

We work in a collaborative hybrid model. 3 days on site pe week in our Lowell office is required.

Preferred Qualifications:
• Experience working with globally distributed teams.
• Demonstrated experience in successful enterprise SaaS product launches.
• Deep functional and technical knowledge of Time and Labor (T&L) software and processes (e.g., timekeeping, scheduling, absence management).
• Solid functional and technical knowledge of Workforce Management and Human Capital Management software.
• Ability to use data to help inform and prioritize product decisions and priorities.
• Experience working with both highly technical and business user communities.
• Comfort with the ambiguity that comes with building new products or evolving mature ones.
• Ability to travel domestically and internationally as needed.

Where we're going

UKG is on the cusp of something truly special. Worldwide, we already hold the #1 market share position for workforce management and the #2 position for human capital management. Tens of millions of frontline workers start and end their days with our software, with billions of shifts managed annually through UKG solutions today. Yet it's our AI-powered product portfolio designed to support customers of all sizes, industries, and geographies that will propel us into an even brighter tomorrow!

Equal Opportunity Employer

UKG is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, disability, religion, sex, age, national origin, veteran status, genetic information, and other legally protected categories.

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Disability Accommodation in the Application and Interview Process

For individuals with disabilities that need additional assistance at any point in the application and interview process, please email UKGCareers@ukg.com.

The pay range for this position is $126,300 to $181,550, however, base pay offered may vary depending on skills, experience, job-related knowledge and location. This position is also eligible for a short-term incentive and a long-term incentive as part of total compensation. Information about UKG's comprehensive benefits can be reviewed on our careers site at https://www.ukg.com/about-us/careers/benefits

Client-provided location(s): Lowell, MA

Job ID: ukg-893383496579

Employment Type: OTHER

Posted: 2025-09-09T18:40:36