Principal Group Product Manager – AL Labs

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Collaborate in crafting and steering the vision, strategy, and operational framework for AL Labs

• Develop a portfolio of promising AI initiatives

• Design and implement an incubation process spanning from problem validation to prototyping, customer testing, investment decisions, and transitions or closures

• Direct early discovery and experimentation while formulating the team’s growth strategy

• Set learning objectives, hypotheses, success metrics, decision checkpoints, and standards for evidence

• Align stakeholders, eliminate obstacles, and cultivate sponsorship for experiments

• Collaborate with teams in Product, Engineering, UX, Data, Architecture, Security, Privacy, Legal, Operations, Sales, Marketing, Service, and Customer Success

• Establish pathways for successful experiments to evolve into sustainable product teams

• Assist in defining and refining an AI-driven product development lifecycle

• Identify opportunities for AI to enhance product development efficiency, quality, and learning speed

• Utilize customer feedback, product data, market intelligence, and experimental outcomes to suggest subsequent actions

• Develop prototypes, narratives, demos, business cases, and executive communications

• Create reusable methods, tools, templates, and playbooks

• Promote a culture of curiosity, urgency, constructive challenge, and ongoing learning

• Recruit, guide, mentor, and nurture a multidisciplinary team as it expands

• Establish systems, processes, and leadership practices that reinforce Paylocity's values

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in a relevant field, or equivalent practical experience

• Over 8 years of experience in product management, innovation, product strategy, venture building, or a related discipline

• At least 3 years in a senior leadership position within a dynamic, technology-driven setting

• Experience in an incubator, innovation lab, venture studio, zero-to-one product team, or similar high-ambiguity environment

• Direct experience operating within an AI-driven Product Development Lifecycle (PDLC)

• Familiarity with generative AI, agents, model evaluation, human-in-the-loop design, experimentation, and responsible AI risk management

• Proven experience in defining experiment hypotheses, measurable outcomes, decision criteria, and scalable transitions

• Ability to influence and align stakeholders across all organizational levels without formal authority

• Outstanding communication and storytelling abilities

• Strong cross-functional leadership skills with teams in Product, Engineering, UX, Data, Security, Privacy, Legal, and go-to-market

• Comfortable operating as a player-coach

• Sound judgment in balancing speed, customer value, technical feasibility, business viability, responsible AI, privacy, security, and scalability

• Capability to remain seated for extended durations, typically 7–8 hours per day

• Proficient in operating computer and phone systems, typing, and utilizing multiple software programs simultaneously

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical insurance

• Dental insurance

• Vision insurance

• Life insurance

• Disability insurance

• 401(k) match

• Career development

• Annual restricted stock unit grant based on individual performance

• Equal-opportunity employer and reasonable accommodations