StandOut by ADP is hiring a Lead Product Manager.
- Do you have a passion for unlocking the potential of teams and inspiring leaders to make a real difference in the workplace?
- Have you taken products from concept to commercialization using the latest technology and achieved market success?
- Are you excited by the challenge of shaping the future of work, leadership development, and employee engagement?
This role is hybrid onsite 3 days a week in Alpharetta GA.
At StandOut, we believe that leadership isn’t just about results, it’s about people. Our culture thrives on empowering leaders and employees, cultivating an environment where everyone’s strengths are understood, valued, and put to work every day. We’re transforming how organizations approach employee engagement and leadership development, helping leaders build stronger, more connected, high-performing teams.
StandOut is seeking a Lead Product Manager to drive our industry-leading platform, focused on helping leaders identify and activate the strengths of every team member. In this key role, you’ll closely collaborate with business stakeholders, product managers, UX teams, and developers to evolve StandOut platform making it easier for US and multi-national organizations to develop successful leaders, improve team engagement, and achieve sustained performance.
We're looking for someone who excels when no two days are the same. Integrity, resilience, and pushing the boundaries are must-haves in this job. Whether you're in meetings with clients or sales, developers, or design, you'll be the guiding voice that helps us clarify ideas so we can create a product roadmap. You stay close to market trends, anticipate our customers' next questions, and bring new ideas into the mix. You love evangelizing about your product and communicate with confidence. Still, you also have the experience to take your product into the marketplace and position it competitively for maximum financial impact.
To thrive in this role, you must take command of your product, lead multiple team's efforts, and be a deep listener who can ask the right clarifying questions to help understand the problem your stakeholders are trying to solve. You've worked with Agile teams and understand product delivery cycles. You have experience explaining the prioritization of a product roadmap, creating that roadmap, and documenting in a way that both external and internal teams will understand. You have held roles where you regularly communicate and defend ideas to a broad audience of stakeholders. Our best product managers are domain experts and enthusiastic creators who stay current on the latest trends. As part of our team, your voice will influence product success and help shape our industry.
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WHAT YOU'LL DO:
- Drive Product Vision and Strategy: Define and communicate a clear product vision and strategy, focusing on empowering leaders to understand and leverage the strengths of every team member. Help shape strategies that elevate team engagement and performance through strengths-based leadership practices.
- Focus on User Feedback: Gather and analyze feedback from business stakeholders, implementation and service teams, leaders and customer teams using StandOut, design and track engagement metrics as well as business outcomes to inform product decisions that elevate the employee experience.
- Thought Leadership and Product Advocacy: Motivate leaders to leverage platform features, regular check-ins, performance conversations, coaching intelligence, and engagement pulse to foster ongoing growth and meaningful team interactions.
- Collaborate for Design Excellence: Partner with UX designers to build and refine features that make engagement and leadership tools intuitive, seamless, and actionable for leaders and teams
- Facilitate and Document Technical Discussions: Run collaborative sessions with engineering teams to address complex challenges and optimize the platform for scalability, data reliability, and data-driven insights.
- Product Backlog and Roadmap Management: Organize, maintain, and prioritize product backlog, ensuring alignment with key business, product, and technology priorities.
- Annual and Quarterly Planning: Collaborate closely with customer experience, operations, PMO, engineering, as well as other cross-functional groups and partners to plan team capacity and product releases, ensuring readiness, clarity of scope, and alignment. Lead and manage Agile ceremonies and rituals ensuring tasks are tracked, progress is transparent, and enhancements supporting engagement or leadership tools are prioritized for iteration.
- Roadmap Reviews and Alignment: Regularly review and update the product roadmap with StandOut stakeholders, gathering input from users, customers, leadership, and HR partners, to ensure that StandOut evolves in line with US and global customer expectations as well as emerging technology trends, e.g., GenAI.
- Prioritize with Data and Insights: Use engagement data, user analytics, and business outcomes to drive strategic and tactical decisions. Create product KPIs, monitor platform usage, gather performance data and post-release feedback, and identify opportunities for continuous improvement, client satisfaction, and retention.
TO SUCCEED IN THIS ROLE:
- Education: You'll have a Bachelor's degree OR equivalent.
- Experience: 7+ years of client-facing experience in product management, with a focus on consumer, learning, development, marketplace, or relevant Talent Management/HR tech applications.
- Experience in designing and building of GenAI-powered applications is preferred.
- Experience in managing global markets and requirements, translations and localizations.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across teams and influence without authority.
- Track record of successfully launching products "0 to 1" as well as managing end-to-end product lifecycles.
- Deep empathy for all users and a passion for creating products that genuinely improve users lives.
YOU'LL LOVE WORKING HERE BECAUSE YOU CAN:
- Deliver at epic scale. We deliver real user outcomes using strong judgment and good instincts. We're obsessed with the art of achieving simplicity with a focus on client happiness and productivity.
- Be surrounded by curious learners. We align ourselves with other smart people in an environment where we grow and elevate one another to the next level. We encourage our associates to listen, stay agile, and learn from mistakes.
- Act like an owner - doer. Mission-driven and committed to leading change, you will be encouraged to take on any challenge and solve complex problems. No tasks are beneath or too great for us. We are hands-on and willing to master our craft.
- Give back to others. Always do the right thing for our clients and our community and humbly give back to the community where we live and work. Support our associates in times of need through ADP's Philanthropic Foundation.
- Join a company committed to equality and equity. Our goal is to impact lasting change through our actions.
What are you waiting for? Apply today!
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