Lead Product Manager

ADP•Alpharetta, GA

15h•Hybrid

About The Position

StandOut by ADP is seeking a Lead Product Manager to shape the next generation of talent, employee engagement, and leadership solutions. The role leads product strategy for a platform that helps leaders identify and activate the strengths of every team member, delivering transformative experiences for global organizations. The product leader will anticipate market shifts and emerging customer needs, translate insights into product strategies and roadmaps, and drive measurable business outcomes. The position combines strategic product leadership with hands-on prototyping using AI-assisted development tools. The Product Manager partners with executives, business stakeholders, product managers, UX designers, data scientists, and engineering leaders to explore ideas, validate concepts, and deliver customer value. The role requires balancing innovation, scalability, quality, security, and compliance, and applying modern Agentic Development Lifecycle practices, responsible AI principles, experimentation, deployment, observability, and continuous improvement. This is a hybrid role with onsite days in ADP’s Alpharetta, Georgia office and is not eligible for remote work.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent.
At least 9 years of client-facing product management experience focused on consumer, learning, development, marketplace, or relevant talent management/HR technology applications.
Experience managing global markets and requirements, including translations and localizations.
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate across teams and influence without authority.
Track record of successfully launching products from 0 to 1 and managing end-to-end product lifecycles.
Deep empathy for users and passion for creating products that improve their lives.
Ability to lead multiple cross-functional teams, influence senior stakeholders, and bring clarity to ambiguous challenges.
Experience creating and communicating product vision, roadmap priorities, investment strategies, and measurable business outcomes.
Comfort using AI-assisted development tools to prototype, validate ideas, and accelerate product innovation.
Understanding of Agentic Development Lifecycle practices, responsible AI, experimentation, deployment, observability, and continuous improvement.

Nice To Haves

Experience designing and building generative AI-powered applications.

Responsibilities

Define and communicate product vision and strategy focused on helping leaders understand and leverage team members’ strengths and improve engagement and performance.
Gather and analyze feedback from business stakeholders, implementation and service teams, leaders, and customers; design and track engagement metrics and business outcomes to inform product decisions.
Advocate for use of platform features, including regular check-ins, performance conversations, coaching intelligence, and engagement pulse.
Build prototypes in VS Code as part of the Pre-Builder team and partner with UX designers to develop and refine intuitive, seamless, actionable features.
Facilitate and document technical discussions with engineering teams to address complex challenges and improve scalability, data reliability, and data-driven insights.
Organize, maintain, and prioritize the product backlog in alignment with business, product, and technology priorities.
Collaborate with customer experience, operations, PMO, engineering, and other groups to plan capacity and releases and ensure readiness, scope clarity, and alignment.
Lead Agile ceremonies and rituals, track tasks, maintain transparent progress, and prioritize enhancements for iteration.
Regularly review and update the roadmap with stakeholders, users, customers, leadership, and HR partners to meet US and global customer expectations and account for emerging technology trends.
Use engagement data, user analytics, and business outcomes to make strategic and tactical decisions; define product KPIs, monitor usage and performance, gather post-release feedback, and identify opportunities for improvement, client satisfaction, and retention.