Senior Product Manager

Category : Human Resources Career Level : Experienced (Non-Managerial) Experience : 3 Years Required Qualification : Education and Experience : Minimum Requirements : Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or Information Systems from a recognized Requires Traveling : No Salary : Salary Not disclosed Salary Type : Per Month Total Vacancies : 1 Skills senior product manager pivotal driving vision development global payroll saas product planning execution continuous improvement alignment business customer compliance requirements market leadership capacity innovative product engineering operations business development support building intelligent industry product strategy management strategy market intelligence marketing statutory compliance performance standards transformation change management information security production business case development

Description

The Senior Product Manager (SPM) at Mercans plays a pivotal role in driving the vision, development, and delivery of key modules within the global payroll SaaS platform. The SPM leads strategic product planning, execution, and continuous improvement across assigned domains, ensuring alignment with business goals, customer needs, compliance requirements, and market trends.

In this senior leadership capacity, the SPM translates vision into outcomes—owning roadmaps, defining innovative and differentiated product features, driving product-led growth, and collaborating across Product, Engineering, Compliance, Operations, Business Development, and Support. The role is essential to building a scalable, secure, and intelligent platform that supports Mercans’ global expansion and industry leadership in payroll SaaS.

Duties and Responsibilities :

• Product Strategy, Roadmap & Lifecycle Management
• Own the product vision, roadmap, and delivery strategy for assigned verticals, ensuring alignment with business objectives, customer priorities, and market trends.
• Translate business needs and compliance mandates into epics, features, and backlog stories with clear acceptance criteria and traceability.
• Lead product delivery from discovery through release, ensuring quality, adoption readiness, and continuous feedback loops.
• Analyze market trends, emerging technologies, competitive offerings, and customer feedback to identify product gaps and innovation opportunities.
• Define and deliver unique, forward-looking features that serve as clear unique selling points (USPs) and enhance Mercans’ market positioning.
• Collaborate with Marketing and Commercial teams to develop positioning frameworks, competitive battle cards, and feature differentiation collateral.
• Own the strategic direction and continuous improvement roadmap for Mercans’ global payroll engine, ensuring scalability, multi-country adaptability, and statutory compliance across all supported jurisdictions.
• Define product architecture and logic layers that support gross-to-net calculations, multi-currency processing, statutory deductions, tax rules, contributions, and retroactive adjustments.
• Collaborate with the Compliance team to embed country-specific rules and localization features, ensuring automated, up-to-date statutory configuration across all markets.
• Partner with Engineering and Data Science to deliver AI / ML-powered logic, such as anomaly detection in payroll runs, predictive net pay variance, and intelligent error correction.
• Ensure payroll engine supports on-demand payroll, batch payroll, and event-driven triggers, with complete traceability, audit logs, and reconciliation controls.
• Establish benchmarking and accuracy frameworks to measure engine performance against SLA targets for processing time, accuracy, and compliance adherence.
• Define API-first logic layers to enable external integration with time, attendance, HR, and finance systems while maintaining rule integrity and data validation.
• Lead modernization efforts by transitioning legacy calculation scripts or hard-coded rules into configurable, reusable rule engines that support version control and auditability.
• Collaborate with customer-facing teams to localize engine configurations for white-label, reseller, or embedded use cases, supporting rapid deployment and ease of administration.

Platform Scalability & Modularization

Compliance & Regulatory Readiness

Security, Privacy & Data Governance

Job Specification

Maryam Eshtairy (Recruiter) is in search of talented and motivated individuals for the post of Senior Product Manager in the field of Human Resources in one of their office located in United Arab Emirates - United Arab Emirates. The ideal candidate should have education and experience : minimum requirements : bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, business, or information systems from a recognized qualification and atleast 3 years of experience. The position require senior, product manager, pivotal, driving, vision, development, global, payroll, saas, product planning, execution, continuous improvement, alignment, business, customer, compliance, requirements, market, leadership, capacity, innovative, product, engineering, operations, business development, support, building, intelligent, industry, product strategy, management, strategy, market intelligence, marketing, statutory compliance, performance, standards, transformation, change management, information security, production, business case development mandatory skills. This is a Full-Time morning shift job.

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