We are looking for a Senior Product Owner / Senior Product Manager with 10+ years of product management experience and strong HCM / HR Technology product management expertise to drive product strategy, market research, product discovery, roadmap, and execution.

The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of the HCM market, HR processes, customer needs, competitive landscape, and enterprise product development, combined with practical knowledge of AI/GenAI and AI-enabled or AI-native product development.

The candidate will work closely with Business Development, customers, engineering, AI/ML, architecture, UX, and leadership teams to identify market opportunities and translate them into differentiated, scalable, and commercially viable products.

Experience with Agentic AI / AI Agents and AI-powered workflows is a strong plus.

Key Responsibilities

- Product Strategy & Market Research

- Define and drive product vision, strategy, roadmap, and priorities for HCM and AI-enabled/AI-native products.
- Conduct market research, competitive analysis, customer research, and product benchmarking across the HCM/HR technology landscape.
- Analyze competitors, market trends, customer needs, pricing, product capabilities, and market gaps to identify opportunities.
- Identify and evaluate new product opportunities based on market demand, customer pain points, business value, competitive differentiation, and technical feasibility.
- Develop recommendations on build, buy, or partner strategies.
- Partner with Business Development teams to validate market opportunities and support product positioning and go-to-market strategy.

2. HCM / HR Product Management
- Bring strong understanding of the HCM/HR technology ecosystem and employee lifecycle.
- Identify opportunities across areas such as:
- Talent Acquisition & Recruiting
- Candidate Management
- Employee Onboarding
- Employee Experience
- Performance & Talent Management
- Workforce Management
- Employee Engagement
- HR Operations
- Employee Offboarding

- Understand HR processes, workflows, user journeys, and enterprise requirements.
- Translate HR/business problems into scalable product capabilities and differentiated user experiences.
- Evaluate existing HCM solutions and identify opportunities for innovation and improvement.

3. Product Discovery & Customer Understanding
- Work with Business Development and customer-facing teams to understand customer problems, workflows, pain points, and unmet needs.
- Conduct structured product discovery and translate insights into clear problem statements and product opportunities.
- Validate product concepts through market research, customer feedback, prototypes, MVPs, and pilots.
- Develop product hypotheses and define success criteria before significant investment.
- Ensure product decisions are driven by evidence, customer value, and market opportunity rather than assumptions.

4. AI / GenAI Product Management
- Identify opportunities to leverage AI, GenAI, LLMs, intelligent automation,



and AI agents within HCM workflows.
- Define AI-enabled experiences that improve productivity, decision-making, employee experience, and operational efficiency.
- Identify opportunities to build AI-native products, where AI is fundamental to the product experience rather than simply an additional feature.
- Work with AI/ML engineers and architects to assess AI feasibility, data readiness, risks, cost, quality, and expected business value.
- Understand concepts such as LLMs, RAG, prompt engineering, AI evaluation, human-in-the-loop, AI observability, and AI governance.
- Stay current with emerging AI/GenAI trends and identify practical opportunities for applying them to HCM products.

5. Agentic AI
- Identify HCM workflows that can benefit from AI agents and agentic workflows.
- Evaluate when an agentic approach provides greater value than traditional automation or rule-based solutions.
- Define appropriate levels of autonomy, human intervention, approvals, and guardrails for AI-powered workflows.
- Partner with technical teams to define agent workflows, tools, actions, evaluation criteria, and monitoring requirements.

6. Product Roadmap & Execution
- Own and prioritize the product roadmap and backlog based on customer value, market opportunity, business impact, strategic priorities, feasibility, and effort.
- Develop clear PRDs, product requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and product specifications.
- Partner closely with Engineering, Architecture, AI/ML, UX, QA, and Business teams throughout the product lifecycle.
- Define and manage MVPs, experiments, pilots, releases, and product adoption.
- Balance short-term customer requirements with long-term product strategy.
- Continuously refine the product based on customer feedback, market changes, and product data.

7. Product Metrics & Business Outcomes
- Define product KPIs and success metrics for HCM and AI-enabled products.
- Track metrics such as adoption, engagement, customer satisfaction, workflow automation, productivity improvements, AI quality, accuracy, cost, and business impact.
- Use quantitative and qualitative data to make product decisions.
- Evaluate whether product opportunities deliver sufficient business value and ROI relative to the investment required.
- Establish clear success criteria for MVP, pilot, and production stages.

Required Qualifications
- 10+ years of experience in Product Management / Product Ownership.
- Mandatory: Robust HCM / HR Technology product management experience.
- Strong understanding of HCM processes, HR workflows, and the employee lifecycle.




- Experience working with enterprise HCM/HR technology products.
- Robust experience in market research, competitive analysis, customer discovery, and product strategy.
- Proven ability to take products from discovery/MVP through production and scale.
- Experience working closely with Engineering, Architecture, and technical teams.
- Strong understanding of enterprise software, APIs, integrations, cloud platforms, and data.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, stakeholder management, and communication skills.
- Ability to work effectively across business and technology teams.

Highly Desirable
- Hands-on experience working with HCM / HR technology platforms, with exposure to platforms such as iCIMSand SAP SuccessFactors.
- Strong understanding of HCM workflows across areas such as Talent Acquisition, Recruiting, Onboarding, Employee Management, Talent Management, and HR Operations.
- Experience analyzing, enhancing, or managing enterprise HCM/HR products and identifying opportunities for product improvement and differentiation.
- Experience building or managing AI-enabled or AI-native products.
- Experience with Agentic AI / AI Agents.
- Experience applying GenAI to enterprise or HR workflows.
- Experience with AI product evaluation, observability, governance, or responsible AI.
- Experience integrating HCM platforms with enterprise applications and third-party systems.
- Experience in client-facing product discovery, solutioning, or pre-sales.

Ideal Candidate

We are looking for a product leader who can connect:

HCM Domain + Market + Customer + Product + AI + Technology + Business Value

- HCM: Deep understanding of HR technology, HCM platforms, and employee lifecycle processes.
- Market: Strong ability to conduct market research, understand competitive landscapes, identify trends, and uncover whitespace opportunities.
- Customer: Able to understand customer problems and determine whether they represent scalable product opportunities.
- Product: Can translate market and customer insights into a differentiated product vision, roadmap, and MVP.
- AI: Understands how AI/GenAI can transform existing HCM products and how to design AI-native experiences.
- Agentic AI: Understands where AI agents can meaningfully improve enterprise workflows and how to introduce appropriate guardrails.
- Technology: Comfortable collaborating with Engineering, AI/ML, Architecture, UX, and QA teams.
- Business: Able to assess market opportunity, ROI, competitive differentiation, business value, and build-vs-buy-vs-partner decisions.

What Success Looks Like The successful candidate should be able to take an opportunity through the following journey:

Market Opportunity → Market Research → Customer Problem → Competitive Analysis → Product Strategy → AI Opportunity → MVP → Validation → Scalable Product The candidate should ensure that what we build is customer-relevant, differentiated in the market, technically feasible, AI-ready, and commercially viable.

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