Principal Group Product Manager- AL Labs

About the role

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.

We give our employees what they need to succeed, including great benefits and perks! We offer medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and a 401(k) match, 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 Paylocity, people matter most and have always been at the heart of our business.

Help 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.

AL Labs is an incubation team focused on exploring how artificial intelligence can create meaningful new value for Paylocity customers and improve how products are conceived, built, validated, and scaled. The Principal Group Product Manager will work directly with the Chief Innovation Officer to establish the team’s direction and portfolio of experiments, moving ideas from early discovery through evidence-based investment decisions and, when appropriate, transition into scaled product teams. This is a hands-on leadership role. The team will begin with the leader as its first and only dedicated member of Product Management, with the opportunity to grow over time as the portfolio and demonstrated impact expand. The successful candidate must be equally comfortable shaping strategy with executives, working directly with Product, Engineering, UX, Data, Security, Legal, and go-to-market partners, and stepping into the details required to run experiments and create momentum. The role requires experience in an incubator, venture studio, innovation lab, zero-to-one product environment, or a comparable setting where ambiguity is high and speed of learning matters. It also requires direct experience operating within and ideally helping create an AI-driven product development lifecycle (PDLC) that uses AI responsibly to accelerate discovery, prototyping, development, testing, launch, and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Co-Create and lead the vision, strategy, and operating model for AL Labs, connecting experimentation to Paylocity’s broader product, platform, and AI strategy.
• Build a