ADP is hiring a Senior Principal Product Manager - Product Evangelism
- Are you empathetic to client needs and inspired by transformation and impacting the lives of millions of people every day?
- Have you taken products from concept to commercialization using the latest technology and achieved market success?
- Are you looking to join a dynamic, inclusive team environment with a culture of collaboration and belonging?
Well, this may be the role for you. Ready to design what's next?
In this role, you’ll champion the ADP Lyric HCM product vision both internally and externally. You’ll act as the voice of the product —driving awareness, adoption, and enthusiasm across global product & technology, sales, marketing, service, implementation as well as client communities and external partners.
Key Responsibilities:
- Evangelize Product Vision: Craft and deliver compelling narratives and demos that inspire excitement among engineers, sales reps, external partners, and executive stakeholders.
- Market Intelligence & Feedback Loop: Conduct regular market, competitive, and customer research. Convert insights into prioritized product roadmap recommendations.
- Cross‑Functional Enablement: Partner closely with marketing, sales enablement, product marketing, and GPT to develop collateral, training, and go‑to‑market programs.
- Thought Leadership: Serve as ADP’s external face—speaking at industry events, webinars, analyst briefings, and user groups to showcase product innovation.
- Internal Advocacy: Mentor product teams and sales forces on product storytelling, market messaging, and customer empathy.
- Metrics & Impact: Define success metrics (usage, adoption, partner engagement), monitor KPIs, and iterate advocacy activities based on data.
- Strategic Integration: Champion evangelism early in the product lifecycle to accelerate launch momentum and ensure cross-functional alignment.
To thrive in this role, you’ll have at least 10 years of product management, pre-sales, or solution consulting experience, ideally in enterprise SaaS/HCM/payroll, with demonstrable success owning and launching products. You’ll have a strong track record of crafting product narratives, delivering demos, producing content, and speaking publicly. 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:
Here's what you can expect on a typical day:
- You'll start each day working with teams to understand responsibilities, identify any issues, and communicate priorities. You'll continue to have meetings throughout the day as you create and organize your roadmap.
- Research - Requirements. You'll document and prioritize product features. You're always learning and researching new industry trends to make our products better. You'll incorporate what makes sense into your product roadmap based on our clients, the market, ADP's goals, and what impact the future of tech will have on your products.
- You'll create strong alliances with diverse stakeholders and ensure everyone is in this together and communicates most appropriately. You'll collaborate across multiple teams with developers, other product managers, and UX teams, to name some, to continually drive innovation and make the product the best it can be.
- You have experience measuring product effectiveness, reporting outcomes, and driving priorities.
- Variety of work. There is no typical day. You could be working with UX teams on client experience journeys to delivering new features, product enhancements, or creating new services. Best part? You'll get to see those ideas come to life.
- You'll speak to internal and external stakeholders to communicate and defend ideas while answering critical questions.
- Experience. You have 10+ years of experience in relevant skills gained and developed in the same or similar role.
TO SUCCEED IN THIS ROLE:
- Degree: BA/BS in Business, Marketing, STEM, or related; MBA preferred, OR equivalent.
- Proven Product Savvy: At least 10 years of product management, pre-sales, or solution consulting experience, ideally in enterprise SaaS/HCM/payroll, with demonstrable success owning and launching products .
- Advocacy Experience: Strong track record of crafting product narratives, delivering demos, producing content, and speaking publicly.
- Domain Expertise: 10+ years in enterprise software, ideally with HCM or payroll focus .
- Evangelism Credentials: Public speaking at events, webinars, customer forums, or analyst showcases.
- Cross‑Functional Influence: Comfortable aligning and engaging diverse teams— technology, marketing, sales, customer success.
- Market-Step Insight: Deep understanding of HCM/payroll ecosystem dynamics and buyer needs .
- Communication Excellence: Stellar written, verbal, and presentation skills; persuasive and authentic.
- Analytical Rigor: Skilled at defining and leveraging metrics to measure outreach effectiveness and adapt strategy.
- Story Telling: Strong ability to synthesize complex, diverse facts, point of views and build compelling presentations and successfully drive outcomes.
- Leadership Presence: Able to mentor others, influence leadership strategy, and inspire through storytelling.
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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