At AbsenceSoft, we’re transforming the employee experience. Our secure, intuitive technology helps employers bring humanity, certainty, and efficiency to some of the most complex moments in the workplace. Built by HR professionals for HR professionals, we’re proud of where we’ve been and even more excited about where we’re going.
Summary: The Product Manager III owns the roadmap and delivery for a product area, with input into strategy, from discovery through launch and adoption. This role contributes to multi-quarter direction in ambiguous situations, works directly with customers, and takes ideas from a conversation to a tested prototype to a shipped product that customers use.
What you’ll do
- Own the roadmap for the product area and contribute to multi-quarter strategy in partnership with product leadership, tying the plan to business outcomes such as retention and expansion.
- Talk with customers regularly, including HR administrators, managers, and employees. Run discovery that informs prioritization and surfaces weak ideas before they’re built.
- Build and test prototypes with users, partnering with Design on patterns and design-system questions.
- Use AI throughout the work, and decide where AI creates real product value and where it does not belong.
- Work with engineering on implementation approaches, trade-offs, and technical constraints, and make scope and prioritization decisions for the team.
- Deliver on team commitments, adjusting as plans shift, with delivery measured by customer adoption.
- Define success metrics before building, instrument what ships, and track and report results after launch.
- Support go-to-market for the area by contributing to the launch narrative and enablement for Product Marketing, Sales, and Customer Success, with input on pricing and packaging.
- Work closely with Sales and Customer Success, and bring learnings back into the product.
- Present roadmap progress and results to product leadership and cross-functional stakeholders.
- Create clear requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and product documentation.
- Drive feature enhancements and manage feature sunsetting to optimize product value and health.
- Participate in a highly compliant environment while assisting to maintain company controls and security within your job role.
- Assist in maintaining applicable organizational security and compliance controls within your department and role.
- Other duties as assigned.
What’ll Set You Up for Success
Required Skills:
- 3-4 years in product management, including scope and delivery for a product area in B2B SaaS.
- A track record of contributing to product direction, aligning teams, and delivering measurable business outcomes.
- Experience with complex products: rich data models, configurable workflows, integrations, or regulated and correctness-critical systems.
- Strong discovery skills and the ability to ground decisions in customer evidence.
- Ability to design, build, and test prototypes with users independently, with strong product judgment and attention to user experience.
- Fluency with AI tools across discovery, prototyping, and analysis, and sound judgment about when to use AI and when not to.
- Sufficient technical depth to engage with engineering on implementation approaches and trade-offs.
- Data fluency, including defining metrics, instrumenting products, reading results, and changing course accordingly.
- Familiarity with go-to-market, including launch narratives and sales enablement.
- Clear, confident communication with engineers, sales and customer success teams, customers, and product leadership.
- High independence in ambiguous situations, with a bias toward shipping and learning.
Preferred Skills:
- Experience shipping AI or LLM-powered features.
- Domain experience in HR tech, leave and absence, benefits, or compliance.
- Experience in a high-growth, scaling company.
Key Skills & Behaviors:
- Synthesizes insights from customer research, data, and feedback into clear product decisions.
- Grounds prioritization in customer evidence and challenges assumptions with data.
- Communicates clearly and builds trust with engineering, design, sales, customer success, and customers.
- Collaborates inclusively and welcomes diverse viewpoints in product decisions.
- Protects team focus by managing priorities across competing demands.
- Brings customer empathy and strong attention to product quality and user experience.
Why join us
At AbsenceSoft, we LEAD with our values:
Lead with Innovation - We create meaningful change through intelligence, focus and passion. We embrace curiosity, data, and insight to shape the future of our industry. Always innovating, learning and evolving.
Elevate Every Voice - Every perspective matters. We listen, learn, and build a culture where diversity of thought and experience drives better solutions and smarter decisions.
Achieve Together - The customer fuels everything we do. We share knowledge, collaborate, celebrate wins, and face challenges as one team because success is always a collective achievement.
Drive Outcome - Every action we take delivers measurable value to our teams, our customers, and the employees they support. Accountability is non-negotiable. We honor our commitments, take responsibility for results, and see every success and setback as a chance to grow stronger.
We offer:
- Impact that matters. You’ll do work that shapes the future of the modern workplace
- Flexibility and trust. We’re remote-first and results driven. You’ll have the freedom and flexibility to do your best work, wherever you do it best.
- Growth and development. We believe the best work happens when people are growing. You’ll have access to learning resources, leadership programs, and real opportunities to take on new challenges and expand your impact.
- Competitive rewards. We offer comprehensive benefits, a performance-based bonus program, and equity opportunities – because when we grow, you should too.
- Time for life. Recharge and reconnect with flexible time off, paid holidays, and flexible leave programs designed to support every season of life.
- Belonging and balance. We’re building an inclusive culture where every voice is valued, collaboration is celebrated, and success is shared.
We’re committed to building a team as diverse as the customers we serve. If your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification, we still encourage you to apply you might be exactly what we’re looking for. If this sounds like a fit, apply today, we’d love to meet you!
Final compensation is determined based on a candidate's relevant experience, skills, education, and geographic location. This position is also eligible for annual bonus.
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