Director, Product Owner – Payroll & Time Digital & Tech

Overview

In this role, you lead the Payroll & Time product group within HR Digital & Tech, shaping roadmaps and guiding Product Owners to deliver usable, compliant, and efficient payroll solutions. You’ll partner with business and AI teams to identify improvements and embed value-driven delivery across Workday, SAP, and other systems. You’ll foster agile practices, manage risk and security, and ensure KPIs drive continuous improvement. This role combines strategic leadership with hands-on delivery in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment.

Responsibilities

• Translate functional strategies into actionable roadmaps and priorities for Payroll & Time products
• Provide direction and coaching to Product Owners on requirements, business cases, prioritisation, architecture, compliance, data-driven decisions, and dependencies
• Partner with business stakeholders to identify pain points and opportunities, shaping short- and long-term product strategy
• Collaborate with HR and AI functions to define and embed agentic in payroll processes
• Oversee delivery across the People Services product group to ensure quality and usability of released features
• Promote agile and iterative delivery practices (e.g., SAFe, Scrum) to enable incremental value
• Act as escalation point for critical performance, delivery, and dependency issues
• Champion user-centered improvements, process optimisation, and automation to reduce cycle times
• Ensure risk, security, privacy, and SOX compliance are embedded with SMEs
• Support Solution Architects in cross-product and cross-platform solutions and dependency management
• Track and report KPIs for the product group to drive value in the HR Digital & Tech Domain
• Provide financial oversight of the domain including budgets and resourcing
• Lead the team in using approved AI tools responsibly to boost productivity
• Lead your team in how to work with AI tools
• Lead your team in using approved AI tools to improve productivity and ways of working, role-modelling responsible use and follow GSK’s Responsible AI, privacy and security requirements

Key requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or Engineering (or equivalent experience)
• Extensive experience overseeing end-to-end product delivery with backlog management and value-focused releases
• Proven track record defining and executing HR systems product strategies that deliver business value
• Experience managing multiple product teams across full delivery lifecycle
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical audiences
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills for use-case development and value assessment
• Successful team leadership of small to medium IT delivery teams
• Excellent communication and stakeholder influence skills
• Knowledge of Workday payroll and SAP payroll

• strong communication
• influencing senior stakeholders
• cross-functional collaboration
• Agile methodologies (SAFe, Scrum)
• Backlog management
• Product strategy and release planning

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