Senior Manager, Product Management

TriNet is a leading provider of comprehensive human resources solutions for small to midsize businesses (SMBs). We enhance business productivity by enabling our clients to outsource their HR function to one strategic partner and allowing them to focus on operating and growing their core businesses. Our full-service HR solutions include features such as payroll processing, human capital consulting, employment law compliance and employee benefits, including health insurance, retirement plans and workers' compensation insurance. 

TriNet has a nationwide presence and an experienced executive team. Our stock is publicly traded on the NYSE under the ticker symbol TNET. If you're passionate about innovation and making an impact on the large SMB market, come join us as we power our clients' business success with extraordinary HR.

Don't meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that many potential applicants discourage themselves from applying to jobs unless they meet every single requirement. TriNet always strives to hire the most qualified candidate for a particular role, ensuring we deliver outstanding results for our small and medium-size customers. So if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every single qualification in the job description, nobody's perfect – and we encourage you to apply. You may just be the right candidate for this or other roles.

Brief overview

The Senior Manager, Product Management will lead a team of product managers and also research, design and drive the development of product solutions to support the needs of TriNet clients, work site employees, and colleagues. This includes responsibility for developing product and go-to-market strategies, conducting market research, generating product requirements; managing roadmaps, and working closely with a cross-functional team of stakeholders to drive implementation. Responsible for identifying and documenting product and business requirements via a product roadmap and taking them from concept to production. Will work with a broad set of stakeholders that include Marketing, Sales, Strategy, Business, Legal, Design, Engineering and others.

What you will do

• Leads and mentors a team of Product Managers, providing guidance, support, and fostering a collaborative and innovative product culture
• Contributes to the professional development and growth of team members
• Develop and oversees the creation of product roadmaps that outline key initiatives, features, and release timelines
• Collaborates with senior leadership to ensure alignment of product goals with overall company objectives
• Establishes the product vision, strategy and roadmap in alignment with corporate goals and objectives, if applicable
• Leads and manages the entire product life cycle from strategic planning to tactical activities, if applicable
• Acts as a primary point of contact for product-related inquiries, providing updates and insights to internal and external stakeholders
• Conducts customer and market research, user feedback, usage, and competitive analysis to identify unmet market needs and complex new product applications
• Identifies and evaluates potential partner relationships for new products
• Oversees the end-to-end product development process, making strategic decisions and solving complex challenges.
• Drives product design for new features and enhancements, plans the rollout, evaluates new opportunities, and creates new proposals aligned with business strategy and present insight to key executives
• Develops business cases and organizes and drives go-to-market planning and execution
• Performs other duties as assigned
• Complies with all policies and standards

Education Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree required
• Master's Degree preferred

Experience Qualifications

• Typically 15+ years Experience in Product Management and/or Product Strategy required
• Typically 5+ years leading a team required
• Typically 3+ years Working directly with Product leadership to shape the long-term product and business direction preferred

Skills and Abilities

• Experience leading teams and demonstrated success developing and growing team members' careers (Advanced proficiency)
• Experience with Agile development methodologies, like Scrum (Advanced proficiency)
• Background in HR, HCM, US Benefits or Healthcare Insurance domain (Intermediate proficiency)
• Uses process and metrics-driven product management approach (Advanced proficiency)
• Experience driving large, complex change efforts and generating results through influence, persuasion, and relationships (Advanced proficiency)
• Passionate towards excellent user experience and knows how to build one (Intermediate proficiency)
• Excellent oral and written communication and presentation skills, including the ability to organize, conceptually interpret and clearly communicate material developed collaboratively with cross-functional parties (Advanced proficiency)
• Effortlessly pivots between strategic level goals and micro level issues and dependencies (Advanced proficiency)
• Saavy in presenting new, creative ideas and generating support. (Advanced proficiency)
• Excels in storytelling, explaining complex things to a diverse audience in a simple format (Advanced proficiency)
• Track record of building strong working relationships with leaders across functions and businesses and successfully influences without authority. (Advanced proficiency)
• Effective teambuilding, motivational, and conflict-resolving qualities (Advanced proficiency)
• Ability to adapt to a fast paced continually changing business and work environment while managing multiple priorities (Advanced proficiency)
• Expert in Microsoft Office Suite (Advanced proficiency)

 Work Environment:

• Work in a clean, pleasant, and comfortable office work setting. The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable persons with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• This position is 100% in office.

Please Note: TriNet reserves the right to change or modify job duties and assignments at any time. The above job description is not all encompassing. Position functions and qualifications may vary depending on business necessity.

TriNet is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against applicants based on race, religion, colour, disability, medical condition, legally protected genetic information, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, gender identity or expression, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions), age, veteran status or other legally protected characteristics. Any applicant with a mental or physical disability who requires an accommodation during the application process should contact to request such an accommodation.