Staff Product Manager (d/f/m) - Payroll

Personio's intelligent HR platform helps small and medium-sized organizations unlock the power of people by making complicated, time-consuming tasks simple and efficient. Our growing team of 1,800+ Personios across Europe and the US are building user-friendly products that delight our 14,000+ customers and their 1.5 million employees. Ready to make an impact from day one?
The Role: How you'll make an impact at Personio
Join us to shape the future of software in the underserved and high-impact HR technology industry. Your work will have a direct and tangible impact on customers, offering ownership and the chance to make a meaningful difference. As we prepare for significant growth, you'll face exciting challenges and have the opportunity to influence our path toward becoming one of the world's leading tech companies.
We are looking for an experienced Staff Product Manager to drive Personio's Payroll tax and social insurance product area. This area is responsible for the correct communication of payroll data to German authorities, while ensuring user-friendly and compliant experience to support companies in a highly regulated and complex environment.
As the Product Manager for payroll communications at Personio, you will shape the vision, strategy, and execution of our product's automation, keeping Personio at the forefront of HRM and Payroll software in Europe. We believe in a low level of managerial overhead where our senior product people are hands-on in building. This role involves close collaboration with the department leadership group, working with a world-class product team, and coaching a small set of product managers.
Role Responsibilities: What you'll do

• Develop a deep understanding of the market as well as our customers, their pains and jobs-to-be-done
• Systematically analyze user feedback and usage data gathered qualitatively through customer interaction and from quantitative sources
• Create and align teams around strategic goals, relevant KPIs and a respective product roadmap often across Domain boundaries
• Plan, enable, and execute against a product roadmap based on an objectively prioritized backlog that spans multiple teams
• Lead specific complex topics within the product that extend across domain boundaries
• Decompose complex problems in close collaboration with Engineering and Design counterparts and write clear specifications that drive direction
• Manage product delivery in an agile setting and guide your team in all sprint activities

Role Requirements: What you need to succeed

• You speak German (native)
• You have minimum of 7 years in product management within a B2B or B2C multi-product company, specializing in the development of global customer-facing products
• You have a proven track record of navigating complex product areas, utilizing data, competitive intelligence, and user insights to define effective strategies and roadmaps
• You have demonstrated success in conceptualizing, developing, launching, and scaling platform-backed products within a fast-paced environment
• You have strong analytical and quantitative skills, with the ability to leverage data and metrics to support assumptions, formulate business cases, and establish OKRs
• You have the ability to think big yet pay attention to details, exhibiting a strong bias for action and the capacity to manage multiple competing priorities, fostering a sense of urgency in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
• You have a deep sense of accountability and ownership, fostering collaborative, result-oriented work

Why Personio
Personio is an equal opportunities employer, committed to building an integrative culture where everyone feels welcomed and supported. We embrace uniqueness and understand that our diverse, values-driven culture makes us stronger. We are proud to have an inclusive workplace environment that will foster your development no matter your gender, civil status, family status, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, education level, or race.
Aside from our people, culture, and mission, check out some of the other benefits that make Personio a great place to work:

• Receive a competitive reward package - reevaluated each year - that includes salary, benefits, and pre-IPO equity
• Enjoy 28 days of paid vacation, plus an additional day after 2 and 4 years
• Make an impact on the environment and society with 1 (fully paid) Impact Day
• Receive generous family leave, child support, mental health support, and sabbatical opportunities
• We follow an office-led, remote friendly approach, including opportunities to work from home and international locations
• We enjoy gathering for meals, cultural initiatives, and events like local Summer Sessions and year-end celebrations. There's also healthy snacks, drinks, and a weekly catered lunch.
• Additional country specific benefits