Senior Product Manager - Payroll

Making a meaningful difference with mission-critical software that empowers communities to thrive.

ReadyTech is more than just a one-trick pony playing in one market with one product, or one customer. We re-imagine, design, develop and deliver technology to solve our customer’s diverse problems – supporting multiple businesses across a variety of markets to be ready for anything. 

We’re an ASX-listed company which means we are stable, have a strong track record of sustainable growth and have a significant number of long-term customers.  So, what does this mean for you? It means we can offer you an experience that will push you to be your best, provide career-building challenges, and that will offer you numerous growth opportunities that can’t be found in any other company.

It’s an inclusive environment where there is no place for politics, where we get our heads together to solve the problems that really matter to our customers, and where we always stay focused on our north star – the communities we serve, and society at large.

Help Reimagine Payroll for the Modern Workforce — with AI at the Core

We’re looking for a Senior Product Manager with a passion for solving real-world problems through great software — and a track record of shipping B2B SaaS products that deliver measurable customer value.

This isn’t just your typical PM role. You’ll own and lead the vision, roadmap and delivery for our core Payroll product, helping midsize and larger organisations pay their people accurately and on time. You’ll shape how we evolve one of the most critical parts of our Workforce Solutions suite — blending smart automation, compliance, and user experience to create a system that just works.

We’re on the track to become an AI-first company, and you’ll be part of that transformation. You should be fluent in how AI tools work, curious about emerging capabilities, and experienced in turning machine learning and large language models into meaningful user value. If you’re excited to help redefine Payroll — not just digitise it — this is your moment.

The key accountabilities of the role:

Own and evolve the Payroll product — define the strategic roadmap, prioritise outcomes, and align with

broader platform vision and goals.

• Deeply understand our users and customers — through continuous research, customer discovery workshops, and insight analysis.
• Bring an AI-first mindset — identify opportunities for automation, prediction, and natural language experiences using emerging AI tools and models.
• Collaborate with engineers, designers, and stakeholders — to scope solutions, balance priorities, and ship valuable features at speed.
• Lead development planning — from backlog refinement and sprint planning to capacity tradeoffs and release scope.
• Communicate clearly and often — with sales, marketing, customer support and leadership to drive internal alignment and successful launches.
• Balance user experience, compliance, and operational complexity — making the complex feel simple and intuitive.
• Continuously evaluate product-market fit — and adjust direction through experimentation, feedback loops and data.
• Mentor and influence across the team — helping others grow, and building a shared culture of curiosity, clarity, and impact.

The key responsibilities of the role:

Payroll isn’t just a process — it’s a promise. One that affects trust, well-being, and compliance every single day.

In this role, you’ll lead the transformation of one of our most critical systems. You’ll help shape the future of workforce management for Australia and New Zealand’s growing businesses — blending innovation and reliability to make payroll something customers never need to worry about again.

You’ll also play a key role in embedding AI across our product experience — not as a gimmick, but as an intelligent layer that drives clarity, confidence and performance for our users.

The key requirements for the role:

• 5+ years of experience managing B2B SaaS products across the full product lifecycle.
• Bonus if you’ve worked in the HR, Payroll or Workforce space — or built products with regulatory or transactional complexity.
• Hands-on experience using AI tools (e.g. ChatGPT, Claude, Midjourney, GitHub Copilot, or similar) in your workflow.
• Strong Agile product management skills — from story writing to leading crossfunctional squads.
• An ability to conceptualise and create AI-enabled products (e.g., co-pilot features, intelligent automations, predictive insights), preferably demonstrated in a business context.
• Passion for solving customer problems, combined with commercial awareness and product intuition.
• Familiarity with tools like Jira, Confluence, and Figma — and how to get the most out of them.

Why you should become a ReadyTecher:  

• A day off for your birthday- hip hip hooray!
• Additional 4 days of leave each year
• ReadyTecher Awards each quarter with the chance to win flights and accommodation to Hamilton Island
• Hybrid work, with in-house baristas in Australia via the Ready Beans team
• Access to Sonder- a technology-driven platform supported by safety, medical and mental health experts - available 24/7
• Paid parental leave
• Additional paid leave for miscarriage, endometriosis and menopause
• Volunteer leave
• Flu vaccinations
• And plenty of ReadyTech merch drops along the way!

ReadyTech is committed to seeing things through each other's eyes. We invest deeply in relationships by offering positivity, fairness and empathy in every interaction and love that everyone is different. We're proud to be an equal opportunity employer that celebrates our diversity of race, beliefs, sexual orientations, gender identities, age, disability status, marital status and more - so that every single one of us can feel like we belong.

As part of our commitment to ensuring a safe and secure working environment for all employees and in compliance with Australian regulations, please note that if selected for this role, you will be required to complete a comprehensive police check and an Australian working rights check. Should you have any questions or concerns regarding these requirements, please feel free to contact us.

So, if you are ready for anything, please apply today. Please note that if your application is progressed to the next stage, we will send you some testing to complete as part of your application as we have found this helps us to quickly identify potential ReadyTechers!