Senior Product Manager Accounting Platform

Job Type

Full-time

Description

Senior Product Manager - Accounting Platform

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 providing 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.

Paylocity acquired Airbase! Airbase Inc., a modern finance and spend management software solution that combines bill pay / accounts payable automation, expense management, corporate cards and procurement capabilities. The acquisition of Airbase represents an expansion of Paylocity’s suite and is expected to deliver incremental integrated value to HR and finance leaders in managing all of their spend on a single platform – expanding the Paylocity total addressable market beyond HCM and further into the Office of the CFO.

We give our employees what they need to succeed, including great benefits and perks! We offer various benefits, as well as perks that support you, your family, and your finances. And if it’s career development you desire, we provide that, too! At Airbase by Paylocity, people matter most and have always been at the heart of our business.

Help Airbase by Paylocity enhance communication and enable employees to connect, collaborate, and create from anywhere with a position in Product & Technology!

Want to develop the strategies and principles needed to deliver compelling software? Join our team and help us enhance our all-in-one software platform, elevate our one-of-a-kind technology, and improve the employee experience.

Take your career to the next level at one of G2s Top 100 Software Companies. Explore our Product & Technology positions to see where you fit!

Position Overview

The Senior Product Manager – Accounting Platform is a key leader within the Product & Technology organization. You will define and scale the core systems that power our products for finance and accounting teams. Your goal is to build a reliable accounting platform that streamlines financial automation, accelerates close cycles, and improves data across systems. Finance teams across the world today depend on multiple disconnected workflows, which creates inefficiencies and inconsistencies. In this role, you will address that by delivering seamless integrations, intelligent workflows, and shared accounting capabilities that help teams move faster with fewer manual steps and greater confidence in results.

You will own the strategic direction and execution of high-impact platform solutions end-to-end from roadmap definition to delivery and iteration. This work requires strong product thinking plus fluency in event-driven systems, APIs, and data models, and the ability to translate complex technical requirements into simple, scalable solutions for internal teams and customers.

Primary Responsibilities

The list below covers the core responsibilities for this role; other duties may be assigned as needed. Reasonable accommodations will be provided to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

• Own the accounting platform roadmap and vision, aligning it with finance and accounting product needs.
• Design and scale core platform capabilities (events, APIs, data models, integrations) that power reconciliation, close, and related workflows.
• Drive adoption and outcomes by increasing use of shared platform capabilities and reducing time-to-integration for new use cases.
• Define and track key platform metrics (e.g., adoption, integration speed, reliability) and use them to guide prioritization and measure impact.
• Deliver platform enhancements and horizontal integrations predictably, in close partnership with engineering and other product teams.
• Standardize and document integration patterns and processes so internal teams and partners can integrate with minimal support.
• Run ongoing discovery and use operational data (usage, escalations, performance) to identify gaps, refine solutions, and iterate on existing capabilities.
• Contribute to and evangelize the long-term strategy, aligning stakeholders on direction and major bets.
  
  

Education And Experience

The experiences and skills below reflect what we believe is needed for success in this role.

• 8+ years of Product Management experience in B2B SaaS.
• 2+ years in platform or infrastructure product management.
• Strong understanding of APIs, event-driven architectures, and data integrations.
• Proven ability to define metrics, interpret them, and communicate insights clearly.
• Experience leading cross-functional, agile teams from discovery through delivery.
• Analytical thinking with excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Strong asynchronous collaboration habits (you document decisions, share context, and unblock others in distributed teams).
• You are eager to learn, continuously improve, and drive consistency at scale.
  
  

Nice to have / Bonus points

• Knowledge of financial close automation, reconciliation workflows, or finance operations.
• Experience managing reliability, versioning, and backward compatibility for platform capabilities or APIs.
• Experience building or scaling developer tools or technology partnerships.
• Familiarity with the financial close process, accounting ERPs, or finance platforms.
• Clear understanding of API architecture, security, and compliance governance.
  
  

Physical Requirements

• Ability to sit for extended periods while working at a desk or workstation, typically for most of the workday.
• Ability to operate a computer, participate in video calls, and use common productivity and communication tools.
  
  

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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