Sr Product Manager

Why UKG:

At UKG, the work you do matters. The code you ship, the decisions you make, and the care you show a customer all add up to real impact. Today, tens of millions of workers start and end their days with our workforce operating platform. Helping people get paid, grow in their careers, and shape the future of their industries. That's what we do.

We never stop learning. We never stop challenging the norm. We push for better, and we celebrate the wins along the way. Here, you'll get flexibility that's real, benefits you can count on, and a team that succeeds together. Because at UKG, your work matters-and so do you.

Product Manager, Core Data Platform Services

About the Role:

Own delivery and evolution of foundational data services that support multiple products and teams across a large enterprise platform. This role operates with senior-level autonomy and execution responsibility, while remaining hands-on in day-to-day product management.

The focus is platform rigor, data correctness, and dependency management, not feature delivery or UI workflows.

What You Will Own

• One or more core data services with multiple internal consumers
• Backlog, roadmap, and delivery commitments for your services
• Cross-team dependencies, risks, and decisions
• Clear service contracts and durable platform patterns

Responsibilities:

Product Ownership & Execution

• Own and prioritize the backlog based on platform value and consumer impact
• Write clear, unambiguous requirements for APIs and data services
• Drive delivery with engineering partners from discovery through launch

Platform & Data Leadership

• Partner with engineering on data models, schemas, and service boundaries
• Lead decisions on versioning, effective dating, and lifecycle management
• Ensure consistency across services while supporting valid consumer variation

Dependency & Stakeholder Management

• Actively manage dependencies across multiple teams and services
• Identify risks early and drive alignment without escalation
• Communicate status, tradeoffs, and impacts clearly to leadership

Documentation & Clarity

• Maintain high-quality documentation in Confluence
• Capture decisions, rationale, and open questions
• Enable downstream teams to self-serve with minimal hand-holding

What Success Looks Like

• Engineering executes with minimal ambiguity
• Consumers trust and adopt the services
• Dependencies do not surprise leadership
• Platform decisions hold up over time
• You operate independently with strong judgment

Basic Qualifications

• 4-7 years product management experience
• Ownership of platform, data, or shared services products
• Experience delivering APIs or data contracts used by multiple teams
• Proven ability to manage cross-team dependencies end to end
• Strong written communication and documentation discipline
• Comfort making tradeoffs in ambiguous, horizontal problem spaces

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with HR, HCM, or workforce platforms
• Familiarity with effective dating, versioned data, or temporal models
• SQL or hands-on data experience
• Prior work on global or multi-tenant platforms
• Experience working with external integrations or public APIs
• Platform-first mindset over feature-first thinking
• Strong ownership and follow-through
• Comfortable operating without heavy process
• Bias toward clarity, alignment, and delivery

Company Overview:

UKG is the Workforce Operating Platform that puts workforce understanding to work. With the world's largest collection of workforce insights, and people-first AI, our ability to reveal unseen ways to build trust, amplify productivity, and empower talent, is unmatched. It's this expertise that equips our customers with the intelligence to solve any challenge in any industry - because great organizations know their workforce is their competitive edge. Learn more at ukg.com.

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 $102,300.00 to $147,050.00. The actual base pay offered may vary depending on skills, experience, job-related knowledge and work location. In addition to base pay, employees may be eligible to participate in a performance-based bonus plan and to receive restricted stock unit awards as part of total compensation. Learn more about UKG's benefits and rewards at https://www.ukg.com/about-us/careers/benefits

Client-provided location(s): Alpharetta, GA, Lowell, MA

Job ID: ukg-SRPRO016924

Employment Type: OTHER

Posted: 2026-02-06T18:42:54