Senior Product Manager, Marketplace API Team

Location: Remote (Must be based anywhere in the Czech Republic)

About Paylocity

Paylocity is an award-winning provider of cloud-based HR and payroll software solutions, offering the most complete platform for the modern workforce. The company has become one of the fastest-growing HCM software providers worldwide by offering an intuitive, easy-to-use product suite that helps businesses automate and streamline HR and payroll processes, attract and retain talent, and build a strong workplace culture. While traditional HR and payroll providers automate basic HR processes such as payroll and benefits administration, Paylocity goes further by developing tools that HR and businesses need to compete for talent and deliver against the expectations of the modern workforce.

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Position Overview

This role is responsible for defining, prioritizing, and delivering APIs and integration capabilities that enable customers and third-party solution providers (Partners) to connect with our product suite. You will work at the intersection of customer needs, partner requirements, platform strategy, and engineering execution to create scalable, secure, and highly usable integration solutions.

You will partner with Product and Engineering teams across the organization, along with Support, Sales, and external technology partners, to identify high-value integration scenarios, define API requirements, and deliver secure, scalable capabilities that power customer and partner solutions. Success in this role requires aligning platform strategy with the needs of customers and partners who rely on Paylocity APIs to build, maintain, and scale their integrations.

The ideal candidate brings strong technical fluency, excellent stakeholder management skills, and a proven track record delivering API-first products, integration platforms, or extensibility solutions within B2B SaaS environments.

Experience building products that serve multiple audiences, including external developers, customer technical teams, business stakeholders, implementation partners, and internal operational teams, is highly desirable.

Primary Responsibilities

The below represents the primary duties of the position, others may be assigned as needed. To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Define and execute the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for external APIs and integration capabilities that enable customers and partners to connect with and extend the value of the Paylocity platform.  
• Partner with internal product teams, customers, and technology partners to identify high-value integration opportunities and prioritize platform investments that drive business and customer outcomes.  
• Collaborate with Engineering and Architecture teams to translate business needs into secure, scalable, reliable, and reusable API solutions.  
• Own and manage the lifecycle of API products and integration capabilities for your assigned business categories, from opportunity assessment and requirements definition through launch, adoption, enhancement, and retirement.  
• Drive ecosystem growth by enabling customers and partners to build solutions that increase the value, reach, and adoption of the Paylocity platform.  
• Work closely with stakeholders across Product, Engineering, Support, Sales, Partner Management, and Customer Success to ensure alignment on priorities, requirements, and delivery expectations.  
• Gather, validate, and prioritize customer, partner, and internal stakeholder requirements, balancing strategic objectives, customer value, technical feasibility, and operational considerations.  
• Develop business cases and product requirements for new API and integration initiatives, ensuring alignment with customer needs, market opportunities, and company strategy.  
• Define product requirements, success metrics, and acceptance criteria that enable engineering teams to deliver high-quality solutions.  
• Manage and prioritize the product backlog, ensuring development efforts are aligned with business goals and customer needs.  
• Lead cross-functional planning and execution activities, proactively identifying dependencies, risks, and obstacles that may impact delivery.  
• Establish and monitor key performance indicators for API usage, partner adoption, ecosystem growth, reliability, and customer satisfaction.  
• Use qualitative and quantitative data to evaluate product performance, identify opportunities for improvement, and inform roadmap decisions.  
• Partner with Engineering and Developer Experience teams to ensure APIs are intuitive, discoverable, well-documented, and supported with appropriate onboarding and implementation guidance.  
• Coordinate successful launches of new API and integration capabilities, including communication, enablement, and adoption planning.  
• Collaborate with Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, and Partner teams to support go-to-market initiatives, technology partnerships, and ecosystem growth efforts.  
• Communicate product strategy, roadmap priorities, delivery progress, and business impact to stakeholders and leadership.  
• Monitor industry trends, customer expectations, integration technologies, and competitive offerings to inform product strategy and investment decisions.  
• Champion a customer-centric, data-driven approach to product management that balances innovation, usability, operational excellence, and measurable business outcomes.  
• Foster strong collaboration across teams, helping create alignment, accountability, and a shared commitment to delivering exceptional customer and partner experiences.  
• Support the growth and development of product management best practices while helping cultivate a culture of continuous improvement and outcome-oriented decision-making.

Education and Experience 

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Business, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience. 
• 8+ years of experience in product management, with a proven track record of defining, delivering, and scaling technical products in a SaaS environment. 
• Strong understanding of API design principles, RESTful services, webhooks, authentication and authorization models (OAuth, SSO, API keys), and modern integration patterns. 
• Experience owning APIs, integrations, platform products, developer-facing products, or other technical product domains. 
• Proven experience as a technical Product Manager or Product Owner, with the ability to effectively partner with engineering teams and design for the unique needs and behaviors of developer personas. 
• Strong business acumen, with the ability to relate product metrics to business outcomes. 
• Excellent analytical, organizational, written, and verbal communication skills. 
• Experience managing competing priorities and aligning multiple areas of the business around common goals. 
• Demonstrated ability to influence senior leaders and secure buy-in for product strategies. 
• Experience reporting progress in business reviews and identifying necessary adjustments based on data insights. 
• Strong problem-solving skills, adaptability to change, and a willingness to learn in a fast-paced environment. 
• A strong sense of curiosity, with a passion for innovation, continuous learning, and staying ahead of industry trends.

Preferred 

• Experience working with third-party technology partners, ISVs, or software integration ecosystems. 
• Familiarity with API management platforms, developer portals, SDKs, event-driven architectures, and integration middleware solutions. 
• Experience defining API governance, versioning, lifecycle management, and platform adoption strategies. 
• Experience with enterprise SaaS products and complex B2B customer environments. 
• Technical background in software development, solutions architecture, implementation consulting, or technical product management. 

Physical requirements

• Ability to sit for extended periods: The role requires sitting at a desk or workstation for long periods, typically 7-8 hours a day.

• Use of computer and phone systems: The employee must be able to operate a computer, use phone systems, and type. This includes using multiple software programs and inquiries simultaneously.

Paylocity is an equal-opportunity employer. Paylocity is committed to the full inclusion of all individuals. We recruit, train, compensate, and promote regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, veteran status, and other protected status as required by applicable law. At Paylocity, we believe diversity makes us better. We embrace and encourage our employees’ differences in age, culture, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion or spiritual belief, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other characteristics that make our employees unique. We actively cultivate these differences through our employee resource groups (ERGs), employee experiences, perspectives, talents, and approaches to drive innovation in the software and services we provide our customers.

We comply with federal and state disability laws and make reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities. To request reasonable accommodation in the job application or interview process, please contact LeaveBenefits@paylocity.com. This email address is exclusively designated for such requests, aligning with federal and state disability laws. Please do not send resumes to this email address, as they will be removed.

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