Senior Product Manager - Data Compliance

Paylocity is an award-winning provider of cloud-based HR and payroll software solutions, offering the most complete platform for the modern workforce. The company has become one of the fastest-growing HCM software providers worldwide by offering an intuitive, easy-to-use product suite that helps businesses automate and streamline HR and payroll processes, attract and retain talent, and build a strong workplace culture.

While traditional HR and payroll providers automate basic HR processes such as payroll and benefits administration, Paylocity goes further by developing tools that HR and businesses need to compete for talent and deliver against the expectations of the modern workforce.

We give our employees what they need to succeed, including great benefits and perks! We offer medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and a 401(k) match, as well as perks that support you, your family, and your finances. And if it’s career development you desire, we provide that, too! At Paylocity, people matter most and have always been at the heart of our business. 

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Position Overview 

Product management is the function that guides every step of a product’s lifecycle — by focusing on the product and its customers first and foremost.  Product Managers identify the most valuable problems to solve, enable their team to ship and iterate high-quality solutions quickly, and validate market impact. They leverage customer insights to deeply understand their problems, define the correct backlog priorities and create a clear Product brief. 

This role requires a strategic, execution-oriented leader who thrives in technical problem spaces and regulatory complexity. You’ll drive the vision and roadmap for data retention workflows across our platform, helping customers meet compliance requirements, reduce risk, and optimize document lifecycle management. Success in this role means balancing retention policy sophistication with usability and operational scalability. 

Primary Responsibilities  

The list below captures the core duties of the role; others may be assigned as needed.

• Data retention roadmap. Ensure secure, performant, and compliant handling of customer data. Manage key capabilities from ideation to launch including ingestion, metadata services, retention rules engine, audit logging, purge workflows, and legal holds.  
• Data catalog and processes. Ensure that the systems and processes are in place to maintain an accurate data catalog and lineage as necessary to support compliance workflows. 
• Navigate complex integrations. Coordinate dependencies, risks, and milestones across multiple Paylocity teams and external vendors  
• Prioritize for impact. Use data to balance customer value, regulatory requirements (SOC 2, HIPAA, GDPR, IRS 274), and internal cost considerations. Identify high-leverage opportunities to automate compliance, improve retention transparency, and reduce manual workflows. 
• Lead cross-functional squads. Engineering, Design, InfoSec, Legal, Marketing) to ship and iterate quickly; bring clarity on goals and timelines.
• Monitor market and competitive research on data privacy and document lifecycle trends—e.g., evolving state/federal retention laws, right-to-be-forgotten use cases, or secure access delegation—to keep Paylocity ahead of the curve. 
• Monitor and report progress. Define and track KPIs such as: 
•  % of client documents governed by active retention policies 
• Volume of purged vs. archived documents 
• Time to implement new legal or compliance policy 
• Champion partner and vendor relationships. Work with third-party providers as needed to align roadmaps, negotiate contracts, and ensure SLAs are met.
• Provide strategic leadership. Mentor associate PMs and ensure documents initiatives ladder up to broader company objectives.

Education & Experience  

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years of product management experience with a track record of managing customer data compliance for high-impact SaaS solutions. 
• Demonstrated success owning a regulatory-sensitive or infrastructure-heavy product at scale. 
• Proven experience integrating with third-party APIs/vendors and coordinating complex internal platform integrations.
• Exceptional ability to execute roadmaps, make data-driven trade-offs, and thrive in fast-moving, ambiguous environments.
• Strong leadership and stakeholder-management skills; comfortable influencing at all levels.
• Deep customer empathy and market insight, translating needs into impactful features.
• Expertise using metrics to inform decisions and optimize performance.
• Solid understanding of security and compliance requirements related to electronic documents (e.g., SOC 2, HIPAA, GDPR, IRS 274).
• Excellent written and verbal communication; able to evangelize vision to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience mentoring junior PMs preferred.
• Scrum Product Owner certification a plus.
• Domain expertise in data lifecycle management, records retention, cloud document platforms, or compliance tooling strongly preferred. 
• Excellent written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills and strong teamwork relationships 

Paylocity is an equal-opportunity employer. Paylocity is committed to the full inclusion of all individuals. We recruit, train, compensate, and promote regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, veteran status, and other protected status as required by applicable law. At Paylocity, we believe diversity makes us better.
 

We embrace and encourage our employees’ differences in age, culture, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion or spiritual belief, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other characteristics that make our employees unique. We actively cultivate these differences through our employee resource groups (ERGs), employee experiences, perspectives, talents, and approaches to drive innovation in the software and services we provide our customers.
 

We comply with federal and state disability laws and make reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities. To request reasonable accommodation in the job application or interview process, please contact accessibility@paylocity.com. This email address is exclusively designated for such requests, aligning with federal and state disability laws. Please do not send resumes to this email address, as they will be removed. 

The pay range for this position is $128,000 - $182,800 /yr; however, base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. This position is eligible for an annual bonus and restricted stock unit grant based on individual performance in addition to a full range of benefits outlined here Benefits Link. This information is provided per the relevant state and local pay transparency laws for the location in which this position will be performed. Base pay information is based on market location. 

Applicants should apply via www.paylocity.com/careers. 

Fully Remote (U.S. Only): This is a fully remote position, allowing you to work from home or location of record within the U.S. with no in-office requirements.  You must be available five days per week during designated work hours.  The work arrangement for this role is subject to change based on business needs and individual performance. This may include adjustments to on-site requirements or schedule expectations, as necessary. 

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