Lead Product Manager

regulatory alignment and seamless global payroll experiences.

You will work with a team of product managers and collaborate cross-functionally with engineering, design, marketing, sales, and customer success to deliver market-leading solutions that meet the evolving needs of multinational organizations.

Key Responsibilities
Product Strategy & Delivery
• Drive the full product lifecycle - from ideation and requirements to launch, adoption, and continuous improvement.
• Identify and mitigate risks, manage dependencies, and ensure timely delivery of product milestones.
• Act as a product evangelist internally and externally, representing UKG at customer meetings, industry events, and conferences.
• Monitor market trends, regulatory changes, and emerging technologies to inform product innovation and compliance strategy.
Stakeholder Management
• Partner with customers, internal stakeholders, and market analysts to validate product direction and ensure competitive differentiation.
• Collaborate with senior leadership to influence and align product strategy across the organization.
• Drive cross-functional collaboration with engineering, QA, design, operations and go-to-market teams to deliver high-quality solutions.
• Mentor junior team members, fostering a culture of innovation, accountability, and customer-centricity.

Required Capabilities
• Proven ability to lead a product pillar through the full development lifecycle.

Qualifications:
• 8 years of experience in product management.
• Demonstrated success in owning and delivering complex SaaS products, ideally in HR, payroll, financial, or regulatory compliance domains. Proficiency with Agile/Scrum methodologies and tools like JIRA, Azure DevOps, or similar.
• Strong analytical skills to evaluate and solution complex business processes and identify opportunities for automation and efficiency.
• Experienced in diagnosing business challenges, feature gaps, and technical bugs, and identifying opportunities for new features
• Data-driven mindset and strong analytical and problem-solving skills. Ability to diagnose complex business challenges and feature gaps, and identify opportunities for automation and efficiency in partnership with technology teams.
• Exceptional communication skills:
• Writing clear, systematic functional specifications.
• Facilitating product design workshops and cross-functional sessions.
• Confidently engaging with executives, cross-functional stakeholders, and customers and presenting platform updates
• Fluent in English, both written and spoken.

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.

UKG is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and is committed to promoting diversity and inclusion in the workplace, including the recruitment process.

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 [email protected]

The pay range for this position is 81,500.00€ to 110,000.00€. 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://https://www.ukg.com/about-us/careers/benefits