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Product Owner Payroll Automation (m/f/d)

Permanent employee, Full-time · Madrid

About us
Being a Personio means being part of something big. It means shaping the future of HR, the future of our company and at the very same time: your own. As one of the fastest-growing B2B SaaS companies in Europe, we have a great product, an amazing team with more than 300 employees and a market that is only waiting to be developed. By now we already have more than 1600 customers, but we aim high: Our goal is to build the leading HR platform in Europe. At Personio, we believe in hiring people like you - ambitious, forward-thinkers who want to be more than just another employee. Will you be one of them?

Job description

As Product Owner, Payroll Automation (m/f/d) you drive the agile development of the Personio Payroll Engine towards our vision of Payroll Automation. You will work cross-functionally with payroll experts and engineers to translate complex requirements into actionable tasks and drive product development of an innovative product.

Your tasks and responsibilities:

  • Develop extensive knowledge of payroll processes and regulatory requirements

  • Understand the technology behind our payroll engine as well as the overall payroll user flow to make good product decisions

  • Align your team around most relevant automation KPIs and goals in line with our overall payroll product roadmap 

  • Decomposing complex problems and write clear specifications in collaboration with our payroll operations team

  • Manage product delivery with engineering in an agile setting and guide your team in all sprint activities

Your profile
  • At least 4 years of experience working on digital products in an agile environment

  • At least 2 years of experience in working as Product Owner with cross-functional teams applying Scrum

  • Strong sense of accountability and ownership

  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills

  • Strong self-organization and prioritization of tasks in an analytical manner

  • Ability to work independently in a result-oriented way

  • Preferably technical background

  • Fluency in English and German

Why us
  • Play a decisive role in disrupting the Payroll market

  • A driven working environment and short decision-making paths

  • Full responsibility for your product together with your team

  • 1,500 Euro development budget, which you can use as you wish

  • Regular team events (f. ex. trip to the Oktoberfest)

  • Relocation support

  • Flexible compensation and Personio adds a grant of 68 € monthly for public transport and food

  • 26 paid vacation days + Christmas eve and new year`s eve as additional days off

  • 3 hours of free English classes per week


Your application

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