Senior Product Manager, Payroll & Time

We are recruiting for theSeniorProductManager Payroll&Time located inBogota Colombia.

HR Digital enables Johnson & Johnsons people strategy through product-led innovation intelligent automation and scalable digital capabilities that strengthen enterprise agility and employee experience.

As the pace of workforce and business change accelerates the ability to deliver intuitive data-informed and globally consistent employee experiences is a strategic differentiator. HR Digital advances this shift by evolving HR from a traditional service model to a product-centric insight-driven operating model that delivers measurable business value operational efficiency and resilience at scale.

Within this context the Payroll & Time portfolio focuses on the digital products workflows and experiences that enable accurate pay compliant time capture efficient exception handling and reliable workforce time processes across the enterprise. The portfolio is responsible for advancing compliant reliable and user-centered capabilities that strengthen operational efficiency improve service quality and reinforce trust in critical employee services.

TheSeniorProductManager Payroll &Timeis accountable for defining and advancing a product domain strategy that translates enterprise priorities into differentiated employee and HR outcomes. This role leads roadmap execution and value delivery across the domain with responsibility for shaping product direction accelerating adoption and improving compliance accuracy efficiency and operational performance.

Operating within the HR Digital product model this leader partners across HR COEs Global Services Payroll Time program owners Digital Data Engineering and Delivery teams to drive end-to-end product outcomes across payroll and time journeys. The role serves as the primary product owner for the assigned domain with accountability for business outcomes adoption and operational health while partnering closely with the Product Director Total Rewards&Pay on portfolio alignment prioritization and investment tradeoffs.

Major Duties & Responsibilities

Strategic Product Ownership (45%)

• Contribute to the domain-level product strategy and roadmap for Payroll & Time aligned to enterprise HR vision and portfolio priorities.

• Translate enterprise needs payroll requirements compliance expectations and employee insights into cohesive end-to-end product experiences including workflows business rules controls and role-based interactions.

• Define and track outcome-based success metrics measuring pay accuracy case resolution experience efficiency data integrity and operational performance.

• Manage the product lifecycle across Innovate Grow Sustain identifying opportunities to simplify automate scale or retire capabilities.

• Contribute to value hypotheses and benefits realization for domain-level investments.

Delivery & Cross-Functional Leadership (35%)

• Lead cross-functional product squads partnering with Product Delivery Experience Design Data Engineering Payroll Operations and HR Operations.

• Own backlog prioritization dependency management and delivery sequencing within the domain.

• Partner with HR COEs Global Services and process owners to balance global standards local compliance needs and user experience.

• Identify risks tradeoffs and constraints escalating appropriately to the Product Line Leader.

• Ensure high-quality execution adoption controls readiness and operational readiness of delivered capabilities.

Continuous Improvement & Enablement (20%)

• Represent the voice of employees managers HR partners and service teams through continuous discovery and feedback loops.

• Drive continuous improvement through data-driven insights operational learning and service performance trends.

• Mentor Managers and Analysts strengthening product craft data fluency and HR technology capability.

• Contribute to product standards patterns and ways of working across HR Digital.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• A minimum of a Bachelors degree is required.

• A minimum of 710 years of experience in product management HR technology digital product delivery or related roles is required.

• A minimum of 5 years of HR or HR-adjacent experience is required.

• Proven experience owning domain-level product strategy and delivery with accountability for measurable business and experience outcomes.

• Strong understanding of HR operating models payroll and time processes and digital platform ecosystems.

• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams in complex matrixed environments and influence across organizational boundaries.

• Proficiency in modern product management and agile delivery practices including backlog management prioritization and iterative value delivery.

• Ability to translate complex process and technology concepts into clear product direction decisions and execution priorities.

Preferred Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with Workday Payrolland broader HR digital ecosystems is preferred.

• Experience applying automation analytics or AI to payroll time or related HR service workflows is preferred.

Leadership Behaviors

• Enterprise-minded: Prioritizes enterprise outcomes over local optimization.

• Outcome-obsessed: Measures success through impact and experience.

• Strategic simplifier: Reduces complexity and friction.

• Inclusive collaborator: Elevates diverse perspectives and shared ownership.