Position: Senior Product Manager
Job Grade: 6
Department name: Product
Ref code: REF-PRO-SPM-032025
Location: Remote
Working Hours: 40 hours per week
Reports to: Head of Global Product
Job Summary:
The Senior Product Manager (SPM) at Mercans plays a pivotal role in driving the vision, development, and delivery of key modules within the global payroll SaaS platform. The SPM leads strategic product planning, execution, and continuous improvement across assigned domains, ensuring alignment with business goals, customer needs, compliance requirements, and market trends.
In this senior leadership role, the SPM turns vision into results—owning roadmaps, defining innovative, differentiated product features, driving product-led growth, and collaborating across Product, Engineering, Compliance, Operations, Business Development, and Support. The role is essential to building a scalable, secure, and intelligent platform that supports Mercans’ global expansion and industry leadership in payroll SaaS.
Duties and Responsibilities:
1. Product Strategy, Roadmap & Lifecycle Management
● Own the product vision, roadmap, and delivery strategy for assigned verticals, ensuring alignment with business objectives, customer priorities, and market trends.
● Translate business needs and compliance mandates into epics, features, and backlog stories with explicit acceptance criteria and traceability.
● Lead product delivery from discovery through release, ensuring quality, adoption readiness, and continuous feedback loops.
2. Market Intelligence & USP Development
● Analyze market trends, emerging technologies, competitive offerings, and customer feedback to identify product gaps and innovation opportunities.
● Define and deliver unique, forward-looking features that serve as clear unique selling points (USPs) and enhance Mercans’ market positioning.
● Collaborate with Marketing and Commercial teams to develop positioning frameworks, competitive battle cards, and feature differentiation collate
📌 Senior Product Manager (India)
🏢 Mercans
📍 India