Sr. Lead Product Manager - StandOut by ADP

ADP • Alpharetta, GA

5d • Hybrid

About The Position

StandOut by ADP is seeking a visionary Senior Lead Product Manager to help define the next generation of talent, engagement, and leadership solutions. This leader will drive product strategy while remaining deeply connected to customers, emerging technologies, and the future of work. The Senior Lead Product Manager will lead an industry-leading platform focused on helping leaders identify and activate the strengths of every team member. In this strategic leadership role, you will collaborate closely with executives, business stakeholders, product managers, UX teams, data scientists, and engineering leaders to define and deliver transformative experiences for global organizations. This role requires integrity, resilience, curiosity, and a relentless focus on innovation. The product visionary will anticipate market shifts, identify emerging customer needs, and translate those insights into bold product strategies and actionable roadmaps. The role also requires a hands-on AI builder comfortable leveraging modern AI development and Vibe Coding tools such as VS Code, GitHub Copilot, Kiro CLI, and related AI-assisted development platforms to rapidly prototype, validate, and accelerate product innovation. Understanding of modern Agentic Development Lifecycle (ADLC) practices, including agentic product development, responsible AI principles, experimentation, deployment, observability, and continuous improvement is essential. The ideal candidate can balance innovation, scalability, quality, security, and compliance while delivering customer value at speed. The role demands the ability to lead multiple cross-functional teams, influence senior stakeholders, and bring clarity to ambiguous challenges. The candidate will be comfortable discussing market strategy with executives, facilitating technical architecture discussions with engineers, and engaging directly with customers. Extensive experience creating and communicating product vision, roadmap priorities, investment strategies, and measurable business outcomes is expected. The candidate's voice will shape product strategy, influence the future of talent and engagement technology, and help define how leaders and teams succeed in the AI era.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree OR equivalent.
• 7+ years of client-facing experience in product management, with a focus on consumer, learning, development, marketplace, or relevant Talent Management/HR tech applications.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across teams and influence without authority.
• Track record of successfully launching products "0 to 1" as well as managing end-to-end product lifecycles.
• Deep empathy for all users and a passion for creating products that genuinely improve users lives.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in designing and building of GenAI-powered applications is preferred.
• Experience in managing global markets and requirements, translations and localizations.

Responsibilities

• Drive Product Vision and Strategy: Define and communicate a clear product vision and strategy, focusing on empowering leaders to understand and leverage the strengths of every team member. Help shape strategies that elevate team engagement and performance through strengths-based leadership practices.
• Focus on User Feedback: Gather and analyze feedback from business stakeholders, implementation and service teams, leaders and customer teams using StandOut, design and track engagement metrics as well as business outcomes to inform product decisions that elevate the employee experience.
• Thought Leadership and Product Advocacy: Motivate leaders to leverage platform features, regular check-ins, performance conversations, coaching intelligence, and engagement pulse to foster ongoing growth and meaningful team interactions.
• Build Prototypes and Collaborate for Design Excellence: As part of the Pre-Builder team, build prototypes in VS Code, partner with UX designers to build and refine features that make engagement and leadership tools intuitive, seamless, and actionable for leaders and teams.
• Facilitate and Document Technical Discussions: Run collaborative sessions with engineering teams to address complex challenges and optimize the platform for scalability, data reliability, and data-driven insights.
• Product Backlog and Roadmap Management: Organize, maintain, and prioritize product backlog, ensuring alignment with key business, product, and technology priorities.
• Annual and Quarterly Planning: Collaborate closely with customer experience, operations, PMO, engineering, as well as other cross-functional groups and partners to plan team capacity and product releases, ensuring readiness, clarity of scope, and alignment. Lead and manage Agile ceremonies and rituals ensuring tasks are tracked, progress is transparent, and enhancements supporting engagement or leadership tools are prioritized for iteration.
• Roadmap Reviews and Alignment: Regularly review and update the product roadmap with StandOut stakeholders, gathering input from users, customers, leadership, and HR partners, to ensure that StandOut evolves in line with US and global customer expectations as well as emerging technology trends, e.g., GenAI.
• Prioritize with Data and Insights: Use engagement data, user analytics, and business outcomes to drive strategic and tactical decisions. Create product KPIs, monitor platform usage, gather performance data and post-release feedback, and identify opportunities for continuous improvement, client satisfaction, and retention.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior