Payroll Product Owner
- Translate product strategy and epics into well-defined user stories and a prioritized backlog that aligns with business objectives and customer needs.
- Act as the customer advocate throughout agile ceremonies, ensuring requirements and acceptance criteria are clearly defined and understood.
- Collaborate closely with engineering, design, and QA teams to deliver high-quality, user-centric SaaS payroll solutions.
- Oversee backlog refinement, sprint planning, and release readiness to drive smooth and timely product delivery.
- Lead product demos, gather stakeholder feedback, and iterate for continuous improvement.
- Facilitate effective cross-functional communication to ensure alignment and successful product launches.
- Partner with implementation and support teams to gather post-launch feedback and promptly address issues or enhancements.
- Evaluate technical and functional trade-offs to meet the needs of enterprise-level payroll customers, incorporating them into product requirements.
- Possess a deep understanding of end-to-end U.S. payroll processes-including earnings, deductions, taxes, retro pay, garnishments, general ledger integration, and direct deposits.
- Interpret and translate U.S. federal, state, and local payroll compliance laws-including taxation, wage and hour regulations, and year-end reporting (W-2, 1099, etc.)-into system requirements.