Product Owner

Job Description

Job Description

WHAT YOU’LL DO

Here’s what you can expect on a typical day:

• Scrum: You’ll start each day working with teams to understand responsibilities, identify issues, resolve dependencies, and communicate priorities. You’ll work in a modern, AI-enabled product development environment.
• Technical Solutioning & Architecture: You’ll partner closely with architects and engineering teams to drive technical solutioning and influence architectural decisions for complex payroll capabilities. You’ll help translate business and product requirements into scalable technical solutions by understanding system integrations, APIs, data flows, dependencies, and downstream impacts. You’ll evaluate technical trade-offs to ensure solutions align with the broader HCM architecture and product strategy.
• Pre-Builder & AI-DLC: You’ll operate as a Pre-Builder within an AI-enabled development lifecycle (AI-DLC), helping move ideas from problem definition to build-ready solutions. You’ll leverage AI-enabled tools and practices to accelerate discovery, requirements definition, solution design, and prototyping. You’ll partner with engineering and UX teams to validate concepts early, clarify technical requirements, identify edge cases, and reduce ambiguity before development begins.
• Product Vision & Roadmap: You’ll document and prioritize product features and user stories while translating complex payroll and business requirements into actionable product capabilities. You’ll continuously research industry and technology trends to improve the product. You’ll incorporate relevant insights into the product roadmap based on client needs, market trends, organizational goals, and the evolving technology landscape.
• Collaboration & Partnership: You’ll build strong alliances with diverse stakeholders and ensure everyone is working toward shared outcomes and communicating effectively. You’ll collaborate across multiple teams—including developers, architects, product managers, UX teams, payroll SMEs, and business stakeholders—to drive continuous innovation and make the product the best it can be.
• Metrics: You’ll measure product effectiveness, define and monitor success metrics, report outcomes, and use data and client insights to guide priorities and product decisions.
• Alignment: You’ll communicate with internal and external stakeholders to articulate product and technical decisions, defend recommendations, explain trade-offs, and confidently answer critical business and technical questions.

EXPERIENCE REQUIRED

• 3+ years of experience in the Payroll domain, with strong payroll and product expertise.
• 2 + years of experience as an enterprise B2B Product Owner, Technical Product Owner, Business Analyst, or implementation/service consultant.
• Demonstrated ability to translate complex business requirements into functional and technical requirements and work effectively with architecture and engineering teams.
• Working knowledge of enterprise architecture concepts, APIs, system integrations, data flows, and modern cloud-based product development.
• Experience working in Agile product development environments, partnering closely with engineering, UX, architecture and business stakeholders.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to understand complex systems, identify dependencies, evaluate trade-offs and drive decisions.
• Experience with AI-enabled product development tools or development lifecycle practices is preferred.

\nCompany Description

With over 2 decades of experience behind us, and global operations spread across 11 locations worldwide - our Agile Digital Transformation Services help brands to be resilient to market disruptions and focus on business outcomes and returns.

We believe that true Digital Transformation can only be achieved with Total Experience (TX), and it is the sum of Multi-Experience (MX), User Experience (UX), Customer Experience (CX), and Employee Experience (EX).

To make this possible, we adopt a cross-enterprise approach, backed by robust operations systems - leading to meaningful customer engagements, retentions and increase in new customer acquisitions for businesses. Thereby, we are the preferred partner for our customers, and we aim to become a TX leader with end-to-end services of MX, US, CX and EX.

Our focus is to bring a positive impact to brand’s profitability and revenue streams, with emphasis on delivering engaging digital experiences, especially when the world traverses through a new normal.

With 25+ Global Technology Partnerships, Espire has been empowering businesses to drive growth and customer engagement. We have served 200+ businesses worldwide, spread across domains like Higher Education, Insurance, Banking & Finance, Energy & Utilities, Digital Communications, Logistics, Manufacturing, Healthcare, Recruitment & Staffing, Digital Marketing Agencies & ISVs, etc.

Company Description

With over 2 decades of experience behind us, and global operations spread across 11 locations worldwide - our Agile Digital Transformation Services help brands to be resilient to market disruptions and focus on business outcomes and returns.\n\nWe believe that true Digital Transformation can only be achieved with Total Experience (TX), and it is the sum of Multi-Experience (MX), User Experience (UX), Customer Experience (CX), and Employee Experience (EX).\n\nTo make this possible, we adopt a cross-enterprise approach, backed by robust operations systems - leading to meaningful customer engagements, retentions and increase in new customer acquisitions for businesses. Thereby, we are the preferred partner for our customers, and we aim to become a TX leader with end-to-end services of MX, US, CX and EX.\n\nOur focus is to bring a positive impact to brand’s profitability and revenue streams, with emphasis on delivering engaging digital experiences, especially when the world traverses through a new normal.\n\nWith 25+ Global Technology Partnerships, Espire has been empowering businesses to drive growth and customer engagement. We have served 200+ businesses worldwide, spread across domains like Higher Education, Insurance, Banking & Finance, Energy & Utilities, Digital Communications, Logistics, Manufacturing, Healthcare, Recruitment & Staffing, Digital Marketing Agencies & ISVs, etc.