Product Manager – Payroll Systems

Overview

As the Payroll Product Manager, you will own the end-to-end payroll product, shaping the baseline requirements, backlog, and release roadmap. You’ll collaborate daily with engineering and the internal payroll team, testing changes and acting as the payroll authority. You will define the long-term payroll strategy and drive the product from specification to market leadership. This is a first-in-seat role with genuine ownership in a differentiated workforce-management payroll platform.

Pay / Benefits

• £65,000–£75,000 salary
• benefits package
• equity backed and fast decision environment
• flexible/location-agnostic work arrangements (office in Birmingham with remote work)

Responsibilities

• Own the payroll product end-to-end: establish requirements baseline, maintain backlog, and plan releases/roadmap
• Collaborate daily with engineering and internal payroll team, including hands-on testing of changes
• Serve as the go-to payroll authority from a product perspective for the teams
• Shape and execute the long-term payroll product strategy and roadmap

Key requirements

• Deep, current UK payroll knowledge (PAYE, NIC, RTI, statutory payments, pensions, auto-enrolment)
• Demonstrable product management experience in software (discovery, backlog ownership, shipping releases)
• Experience moving payrolls between systems, including data migration, parallel running, and reconciliation (ideal)
• Strong written communication for producing actionable specifications

• Strong written communication
• Cross-functional collaboration
• Ownership and accountability
• UK payroll expertise
• Backlog management and roadmap planning
• Requirements specification

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