Product Manager II - HRIS-Compensation

Please Note: This is a Utah-based hybrid position which will require some regular in-office days each week. Additionally, employment with BambooHR is contingent on passing both a background and credit check. AI at BambooHR At BambooHR, we’re all about setting people free to do great work, and we believe AI is a powerful partner in that mission. We’re leaning into intelligent tools to streamline our workflows, giving us more time for high-impact innovation. We look for curious, forward-thinking people who are ready to explore how AI can elevate their work and help us reimagine the future of HR. Essential Job Duties This role sits at the center of BambooHR’s Compensation and Benchmarking strategy within our HRIS product management team. You will own the product strategy and execution for experiences that help customers benchmark roles, manage compensation structures, guide pay decisions, and report on compensation with confidence. You’ll build for multiple user groups: HR and People leaders who need trusted data and flexible workflows, managers who need clear context and guardrails for compensation decisions, and business leaders who need visibility into compensation trends, consistency, and budget impact. You’ll work closely with Engineering, Product Design, Data, Customer Experience, Product Marketing, and adjacent BambooHR product teams to ensure compensation experiences are deeply connected to core HRIS data and people workflows. This is a high-autonomy role on a collaborative team for a PM who enjoys solving sensitive, data-rich workflow problems and turning them into elegant, scalable product experiences. You will: Define the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for Compensation and Benchmarking within BambooHR. Build intuitive workflows for compensation planning, pay changes, approvals, pay ranges, and compensation review cycles. Create benchmarking experiences that help customers match roles, understand market pay, and make informed compensation decisions. Connect compensation workflows to core HRIS data and lifecycle moments, including employee records, job and level changes, location data, manager relationships, and other people workflows. Strengthen data, permissions, and reporting foundations by improving visibility into pay positioning, benchmark coverage, compensation changes, approval history, and auditability while protecting sensitive information. Partner with Engineering and Product Design to turn customer needs into clear requirements, prioritize tradeoffs, and deliver high-impact solutions. Use data, research, and experimentation to improve product adoption, administrative efficiency, decision confidence, and customer value. Apply AI thoughtfully to reduce administrative effort, improve matching and insights, and surface relevant compensation context where it adds real value. What You Need to Get the Job Done Alignment with BambooHR values - read up on them and let us know your favorite. 3+ years of PM experience, ideally in B2B SaaS, HR tech, compensation, benchmarking, workforce planning, analytics, finance, or other data-rich workflow software. Domain fluency in compensation, HR, finance, workforce planning, or other operational workflows. You understand customer problems around pay ranges, market benchmarking, compensation planning, approvals, and reporting. Experience balancing administrator, manager, and leadership experiences. You can build powerful configuration, planning, and reporting tools while also giving decision-makers the context they need. Strong product craft in systems-rich environments. You’re comfortable with data models, permissions, workflow automation, reporting, and integrations. Experience working with sensitive data and designing trustworthy, permission-aware experiences. AI as a practical tool. You use AI to accelerate your own work and think thoughtfully about where AI can create better product experiences. Analytical and customer-centered. You use data, research, and experimentation to prioritize opportunities and measure outcomes. Entrepreneurial drive. You create clarity, move through ambiguity, and lead well across functions. What Will Make Us REALLY Love You You are building with AI coding agents and love exploring the future of building great software. You’ve built products in HR tech, compensation, benchmarking, workforce planning, finance, analytics, or other decision-support domains. You’ve worked on data-rich B2B workflows where accuracy, trust, and permissions are critical. You’ve worked with market data, job architecture, role matching, or benchmarking systems. You’ve shipped products that connect data to customer action, such as recommendations, approvals, ranges, planning workflows, or reporting. You’ve worked with HR admins, compensation leaders, managers, finance partners, or executives as primary users and understand their competing needs. You’ve improved visibility into compensation planning, approval history, sensitive reporting, or auditability. You’ve explored AI-assisted matching, summarization, anomaly detection, or decision support in a practical customer-facing product. What You'll Love About Us A Great Company Culture that has been recognized by multiple organizations like Inc , and Salt Lake Tribune Comprehensive health, life, and disability insurance Generous leave policies that include 4 weeks of vacation, 12 company holidays, parental leave, and volunteer time off so you can enjoy quality of life 401k plans with up to 6% company match $2000 Paid-Paid Vacation bonus EAP through Headspace Check out all our benefits that benefit you About Us At BambooHR, we're building something different: we're building a people intelligence platform that transforms HR and sets people free to do great work! We're a proven market leader driving innovation while building lasting success through thoughtful, sustainable growth. Here, you'll find a place that champions growth: both professional and personal, both individual and collective. We invest in potential, giving you the space to stretch your capabilities and turn good ideas into reality while providing the safety net of a supportive, values-driven culture. Our approach combines meaningful work with meaningful lives, offering competitive benefits, professional development, and the flexibility to thrive both in and outside the office. What sets us apart isn't just what we do, but how we do it: with openness, integrity, and a shared commitment to doing the right thing. Join us in creating HR software that makes work better for everyone, while we make work better for you. BambooHR is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals and will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations throughout the hiring process. If you would like to request accommodations, please let your recruiter know. BambooHR is An Equal Opportunity Employer--M/F/D/V Because our team members are trusted to handle sensitive information, we require all candidates that receive and accept employment offers to complete a background check before being hired. For information on California Privacy Policy, click here . Our process utilizes AI as an assistant to efficiently process and analyze candidate data. Recruiters and hiring managers maintain full oversight and accountability, ensuring that all final selection and rejection decisions are human-made and based solely on objective job qualifications. Please see our General Privacy Notice and California Privacy Notice for more details. See our AI Guidelines for Candidates for details on how BambooHR uses AI in recruiting, how we expect candidates to use AI, and what is not allowed. #J-18808-Ljbffr