Lead Product Manager - Mexican Payroll Experience

haping the future of our Global Payroll and Workforce Management (WFM) solutions. You will own the Product Strategy for In-Country Compliance in Mexico. **Deep expertise of Mexican payroll is required, alongside fluent Spanish language skills.**This is a unique opportunity to lead product ownership in regions where compliance requirements are complex and evolving, and where deep local expertise is essential.

Why This Role Matters
This is a strategic role within UKG's Global Payroll, helping deliver next-generation Payroll and WFM solutions tailored to the compliance needs of each country. You'll be instrumental in building the engine that powers our Workforce Experience Suite, ensuring our products are not only compliant but also competitive and customer-centric.

What You'll Do
Own the Product Strategy for In-Country Compliance in Your Country or Region
Lead the definition and execution of product roadmaps for Payroll and WFM compliance in specific regions, ensuring alignment with local regulatory requirements and market expectations; whilst forming part of the holistic whole platform.

Drive Product/Market Fit
Collaborate with Go-To-Market (GTM), Pre-Sales, and Managed Services teams to ensure our products meet the nuanced needs of each country's compliance landscape, taking into consideration, global, local and company specific compliance requirements.

Act as a Compliance Product Owner
Apply Product Owner and Analyst style capabilities to deeply understand local legislation, translate it into product requirements, and ensure these are reflected in the roadmap from initial ideation through to successful market release.

Bridge the Gap Between Pre-Sales and Product
Take ownership of a skillset that has traditionally fallen to Pre-Sales, but requires dedicated product leadership and domain expertise in the region - be the owner of Product Market fit.

Lead Product Development Lifecycle
Guide cross-functional teams through the full product lifecycle, from ideation to delivery, ensuring high-quality outcomes and customer satisfaction.

Required Skills & Experience
Analytical & Problem Solving
Strong understanding of complex business processes and compliance frameworks.
Ability to gather and reconcile data from multiple sources to inform product decisions.
Experience diagnosing feature gaps and technical bugs, and working with engineering to resolve them.

Communication & Collaboration
Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English as well as local language for the region.
Ability to write clear, systematic functional specifications.
Skilled in facilitating product design workshops and cross-functional sessions.
Comfortable presenting product updates to internal teams and customers alike.

Technical & Product Expertise
6-7 years of experience in HR, payroll, financial, or tech-based environments.
Deep knowledge of local payroll and WFM compliance.
Proven track record of leading large-scale projects involving multiple technologies.
Working knowledge of Agile/Scrum methodologies.
Experience with tools like JIRA, Azure DevOps, or similar.
Understanding of relational databases and APIs.

We operate in a collaborative, hybrid model. 3 days per week in either the Lowell or Sunrise office is required.

Desirable Qualifications
University degree or equivalent in a relevant field.
Experience working in a global product organization.
Ability to work independently while collaborating across global teams.

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

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USA Pay Transparency

The pay range for this position is to $129,500 and $186,100, however, base pay offered may vary depending on skills, experience, job-related knowledge and location. This position is also eligible for a short-term incentive and a long-term incentive as part of total compensation. Information about UKG's comprehensive benefits can be reviewed on our careers site at https://https://www.ukg.com/about-us/careers/benefits