Senior Product Manager, Workflows

Senior Product Manager – Workflows Platform  

About Paylocity

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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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. 

Position Overview 

We’re modernizing Paylocity’s Workflows architecture and evolving it into a resilient, scalable platform that powers automation across our HCM suite. As Senior Product Manager, you will own the end-to-end migration from legacy workflow services to Temporal, drive our API first strategy, and lay the groundwork for AI agents orchestrating human-in-the-loop processes on a trusted data platform. 

You’ll define the roadmap, standards, and adoption plan for platform services used by multiple product teams, partnering deeply with Engineering, Security, and Customer Operations. This is a hands on, technical PM role where you’ll translate platform capabilities into measurable business outcomes: performance, reliability, developer velocity, and customer value at enterprise scale. 

Primary Responsibilities 

The below represents the primary duties of the position, others may be assigned as needed. To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.  

• Own the platform roadmap for Workflows (Temporal): activity/worker strategy, versioning, retries, compensations/sagas,      observability, and SLAs/SLOs. 
• Lead the legacy to Temporal migration: author migration playbooks, deprecation policies, and rollout waves; ensure safe      cutovers, backward compatibility, and zero-downtime patterns. 
• API & contract leadership: define API standards (versioning, dempotency, pagination, error models, webhooks, events), schemas, and data contracts with clear governance. 
• Reliability at scale: partner with Eng/SRE to set SLOs, error budgets, and autoscaling policies; drive instrumentation (traces,      metrics, logs) and capacity planning. 
• Security & compliance: embed RBAC, auditability, data retention, PII controls, and policy enforcement into workflow/approval      patterns across Company Set. 
• AI & agents enablement: design platform hooks for LLM/agent orchestration, human approval steps, guardrails, and      deterministic handoffs (prompt/trace capture). 
• Cross product orchestration: enable payroll/HR/time/docs integrations through reusable workflow primitives, launchers, and      connectors (internal & partner). 
• Stakeholder management: align Engineering, Operations, Security, Support, Implementations, and CS on milestones, change impacts, and client communication. 
• Measure what matters: define KPIs (p95 latency, success rate, cost per run, developer NPS, migration % complete, incident MTTR)      and run a cadence for continuous improvement. 
• Go to market for platform changes: create release notes, migration guides, internal trainings, and enterprise rollout plans for Company Set clients. 
• Coach and elevate adjacent PMs/ICs on platform thinking, APIs, and distributed systems trade offs. 

Education and Experience 

• Bachelor’s Degree required (CS/Engineering or equivalent experience preferred). 
• 8+ years in Product Management (or equivalent) shipping platforms or distributed systems at scale. 
• Proven success leading major architecture migrations (e.g., workflow engines, service meshes, event platforms). 
• Strong fluency in APIs (REST/gRPC), eventing (e.g., Kafka), cloud/Kubernetes, IaC (e.g., Terraform), and observability (tracing/metrics/logs). 
• Demonstrated partnership with Engineering and Operations/SRE to set SLOs, manage incidents, and drive reliability. 
• Experience building for enterprise customers (multi-entity/Company Set), with security, audit, and      compliance in mind. 
• Comfort designing experiences that enable AI/agents with safe guardrails and human-in-the-loop steps. 
• Exceptional communication. Able to  align technical and non-technical stakeholders and drive crisp decisions. 

Preferred Qualifications 

• Temporal (workflows/activities/workers), saga/compensation patterns, backoff/retries, idempotency or in comparable systems. 
• Data platform exposure (data contracts, lineage, governance) and analytics for platform health. 
• Background in HCM/Payroll/Time/Docs domains. 
• Experience mentoring PMs and influencing across multiple teams. 

Physical Requirements 

• Ability to sit for extended periods (7–8 hours/day). 
• Use of computer and phone systems; multitasking across software tools. 

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 LeaveBenefits@paylocity.com. This email address is exclusively designated for such requests. Please do not send resumes to this address.

The base pay range for this position is $130,000- $241,000 /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. 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