Product Owner (Product Manager – US Payroll)
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Job Location:
Mexico City - Mexico
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
30+ days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Important Information:
Years of Experience: 7 years of experience in Product Management or related roles
Job Mode: Full-time
Work Mode: Remote
Job Summary:
The Product Manager US Payroll will play a key role in defining building and delivering high-quality SaaS payroll solutions tailored to U.S. compliance and business needs. This role bridges strategic product vision with practical executiontranslating epics into actionable user stories collaborating across functions and ensuring product excellence through customer-focused decision-making and iterative feedback.
Responsibilities and Duties:
Translate product strategy and epics into actionable user stories and a prioritized backlog aligned with business and customer needs.
Serve as the customer advocate during agile ceremonies ensuring clear requirements and well-defined acceptance criteria.
Partner with engineering design and QA to deliver high-quality user-centered SaaS features.
Manage backlog grooming sprint planning and release readiness to ensure smooth delivery cycles.
Conduct product demos and collect stakeholder feedback to drive continuous product improvement.
Coordinate cross-functional communication to ensure alignment and timely delivery of product milestones.
Collaborate with implementation and support teams to gather feedback and address operational issues proactively.
Balance technical and functional tradeoffs to support scalability for larger payroll customers.
Qualifications and Skills:
Proven experience in Product Management within payroll HRIS or financial SaaS platforms.
Strong understanding of agile product development practices and backlog management.
Excellent analytical communication and stakeholder management skills.
Ability to translate complex compliance requirements into simple actionable product solutions.
Strong problem-solving skills with a customer-centric approach.
Role-Specific Requirements:
Deep understanding of end-to-end U.S. payroll workflows including earnings deductions taxes retro pay garnishments GL integration and direct deposits.
Familiarity with U.S. federal state and local payroll compliance laws (taxation wage & hour rules year-end reporting such as W-2 1099 etc.).
Awareness of integration points with other HRIS systems such as Time & Attendance and Benefits.
Ability to assess and communicate the impact of product changes on related modules and integrations.
Technologies:
Agile/Scrum tools (e.g. Jira Confluence)
SaaS and cloud-based platforms
HRIS/Payroll software systems
Skillset Competencies:
Agile Product Ownership
Backlog Prioritization
Stakeholder Communication
Compliance Interpretation
Cross-Functional Collaboration
Data-Driven Decision Making
About Encora:
Encora is the preferred digital engineering and modernization partner of some of the worlds leading enterprises and digital native companies. With over 9000 experts in 47 offices and innovation labs worldwide Encoras technology practices include Product Engineering & Development Cloud Services Quality Engineering DevSecOps Data & Analytics Digital Experience Cybersecurity and AI & LLM Engineering.
At Encora we hire professionals based solely on their skills and qualifications and do not discriminate based on age disability religion gender sexual orientation socioeconomic status or nationality.
Required Experience:
IC
Key Skills
- Time Management
- Data Analytics
- Analytical
- Agile
- Requirement Gathering
- Strategic thinking
- Visio
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Market Research
- UML
- Cross Functional Teams
About Company
As Encora Inc. expands its footprint in Latin America, its acquisition of Nearsoft provides our clients with a unique chance to Nearshore on a global scale.
