Senior Product Manager -Embedded

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Imagine Your Future with Us! Since 1971, Paychex has been at the forefront of simplifying HR, payroll, and benefits for American businesses. Our digital HR technology and advisory solutions cater to the changing needs of employers and their employees. With award‑winning training and endless opportunities for growth and development, you can build a lifelong career with us. We pride ourselves on fostering an inclusive and innovative culture, where leaders and dedicated employees embody the values that drive us to support each other, our clients, and our communities.

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Sure Payroll is looking for a dynamic product manager (mid and senior levels) to support our product strategy and development. Sat at the crossroads of engineering, design, and go‑to‑market teams, Product Management is responsible for identifying short and long‑term opportunities within our product platform and taking them to market. You have an entrepreneurial and innovation mindset, experience bringing initiatives forward through to execution, and a laser‑focus on value creation for our customers and our business.

You are deeply curious, data‑driven, forward‑thinking, and nimble. The ideal candidate has a strong background in SaaS, a proven record of managing the full product lifecycle, and a desire to join a team of like‑minded individuals to build best‑in‑class products.

• Identify opportunities for our embedded/reseller offering, in line with our product strategy. Support product vision, strategy, roadmap, and full product lifecycle management in context of broader organizational goals and strategies.
• Prioritize strategies and tasks based on evolving needs; generate buy‑in across teams and communicate effectively for full awareness. Present roadmaps for our embedded offering, product enhancements, and recommended changes to senior management based on value and ROI.
• Plan, kick off, and develop initiatives, collaborating across Engineering, Design, Sales, and Service.
• Define features and communicate their function and requirements to stakeholders.
• Create clarity and structure in ambiguous situations.
• Monitor competition, identify and analyze significant market or internal data changes. Use constructive thinking and innovative solutions to recognize trends and make impactful decisions.
• Focus on user experience; conduct user interviews as needed to deeply understand user needs. Ideate with design and engineering. Sketch wireframes, write clear briefing/requirements docs, and coordinate resources to action.
• Define success criteria and metrics for each release, evaluate in the post‑launch phase, and leverage data to guide and influence future product/feature investment and prioritization decisions.
• Maximize efficiency in a constantly evolving environment where process is fluid.
• Manage ongoing relationships with external partners and monitor industry for possible new partners.

• Experience with user research for partners, understanding unique needs of partners around reporting, administration, billing, in addition to core product functionality.
• Experience with embedded SaaS products in fintech a plus.
• Experience with white‑labeled systems, APIs.
• Influencing cross‑functional partners, leading teams, managing stakeholders, getting buy‑in from leadership.
• Execution rigor—thinking through end‑to‑end operations, detailed requirements for engineering, and ability to see around corners in execution to prevent technical problems at launch.
• Sound business judgment and analytical problem‑solving skills, with the ability to scope technical requirements and prioritize the most important products to launch.
• Must be able and willing to think and act strategically and tactically.
• Experience building early‑stage products strongly preferred.

In the spirit of pay transparency, the starting base pay range for this position is $ - $ annually. This range is the base pay only and does not include other components of the total rewards package. Final compensation will be determined based on location,…