Job Description

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Description & Qualifications

Description The Sr. Principal Product Manager is a critical leadership role that requires extensive subject matter expertise in own discipline and unique knowledge of the field. The individual is considered the go-to person internally in the area of expertise and applies this expertise to innovate and develop offerings/solutions for unique and complex issues. This role leads large initiatives with substantial risk, visibility, and complexity, developing the strategy as well as responsibility for the execution of the product roadmap with minimal guidance, and while influencing key decision-makers within the sub-function.

Key Responsibilities:

Product Strategy and Roadmap:
- Expert in multiple domain areas across the product portfolio.
- Define strategy to ensure successful product delivery in one or many domains.
- Define corresponding roadmap with Parent Features focused on value and break Parent Features down to Features/Epics and User Stories, that articulate how we drive incremental value over time.

Cross-Functional Team Leadership:
- Work closely with engineering counterparts to create roadmaps based on capacity, come up with creative solutions to problems often thinking beyond their designated sub-stream, and make joint commitments on deliverables.
- Continuously work the roadmap to meet Parent Feature level commitments.
- Update management on progress toward commitments and escalate risks to the roadmap.

Adaptability and Management:
- Proactively manage shifts and changes necessary to meet commitments, make recommendations to management when additional guidance is needed.
- Comfortable with the unknown and counsels more junior PMs on the skills to pivot and shift as demands of the business and/or market change necessitating changes to the roadmap.

Review and Mentorship:
- Review overall roadmaps to ensure they align with business goals and strategy.
- Review Parent Features and Features being written by more junior PMs across the organization to ensure they are functional and complete.
- Actively mentor more junior Product Managers on roadmap management and how to keep focus on commitments while shifting and changing in response to the environment.

Customer and Leadership Engagement:
- Has frequent conversations with customers to understand their challenges and uncover problems to be solved.
- Act as a trusted advisor to leadership, customers, and cross-functional groups.
- Articulate the value of solutions and understand how this impacts UKG bottom line through revenue, CSAT, etc.

Complex Issue Resolution and Process Improvement:
- Anticipate potential issues or problems, anticipate potential objections and influences the direction of conversations to get to effective outcomes.
- Solve complex issues by identifying or developing innovative solutions that may set a precedent.
- Participates in the evolution of processes and procedures to continue to improve organizational effectiveness.

Independent Operation and Influence:
- Work independently in multiple complex areas simultaneously.
- Makes recommendations to leadership when higher-level decisions are required.
- Able to drive solutions through influence without authority.
- Independently conduct market research, customer analysis, feature proposals, and story breakdown and writing as needed for execution

Qualifications 10+ years of relevant hands-on product strategy experience with SaaS or Enterprise Software
Excellent written and verbal communication skills and executive presence
Ability to define and shape the business strategy for multiple large product areas
Attention to detail and ability to manage multiple competing priorities simultaneously
Proven track record of successfully shipping new products in an agile environment
Demonstrate strong use of analytics, user research and business cases to drive decisions and improve products
The ability to work onsite 3 days per week, in our Noida office

Additional Qualification
Preferred 5+ experience in SAAS product management or B2B2C software development
Preferred 3+ experience in low code/no code development/automation platforms

EEO Statement

Equal Opportunity Employer

Ultimate Kronos Group is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and is committed to maintaining a diverse and inclusive work environment. All qualified applicants will receive considerations for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, disability, marital status, familial status, sexual orientation, pregnancy, genetic information, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, veteran status, and any other legally protected status under federal, state, or local anti-discrimination laws.

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Disability Accommodation

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