
Description:
About the Role
We are hiring a Senior Product Manager Finance & Planning to drive the evolution of Kekas financial products spanning:
- India / GCC / US Payroll
- Compensation & Cycle Planning
- Budgeting & Workforce Cost Planning
- Financial Data Models & Compliance Workflows
- Global Workforce Support
This is a high-ownership IC role, focused on strong execution, deep problem solving, and building reliable, scalable, and compliant financial products.
Key Responsibilities:
- Understand customer problems, compliance requirements, market insights, and convert them into clear product priorities.
- Define and own a 23 quarter roadmap across Payroll, Compensation, and Budget Planning, ensuring alignment with business outcomes.
- Drive execution for multi-geo payroll capabilities, ensuring correctness, stability, compliance, and extensibility across India, GCC, and US markets.
- Build and enhance compensation workflows - including cycles, budgeting, approvals, and financial modeling.
- Partner with Finance, HR, and People Ops teams of customers to validate workflows and ensure correctness of financial logic.
- Collaborate with Engineering and Design to create scalable, modular, and extensible platforms for payroll and adjacent services.
- Work closely with Sales, CS, Support, and Finance to understand customer escalations, implementation bottlenecks, and recurring themes.
- Represent Finance & Planning in customer discussionsvalidate problems, showcase roadmap, and gather insights from enterprise customers.
- Write clear PRDs, acceptance criteria, and maintain crisp communication across sprint rituals.
- Monitor shipped features, analyze data, evaluate success metrics, and iterate based on insights.
- Drive high-quality delivery by anticipating risks, clarifying requirements early, and ensuring strong
Who We're Looking For:
Experience & Skills:
- 58 years of Product Management experience in B2B SaaS, preferably in finance, HR tech, or compliance-heavy domains.
- Strong experience working in financial, payroll, compliance, HRMS, accounting, fintech, or ERP workflows - with the ability to model complex rules, edge cases, and dependencies.
- Exposure to or strong interest in Fintech, payments, financial data modeling, cost forecasting, or compliance-driven workflows.
- Experience with - or ability to quickly ramp into - Payroll, Compensation, Budgeting, Workforce Planning, or multi-geo statutory models (India / GCC / US).
- Ability to independently run structured customer research programs, segment users by behavior/needs, and translate insights into actionable product decisions.
- Strong analytical capabilities: proficiency in using data, correlation mapping, cohort analysis, adoption metrics, and churn drivers to refine priorities.
- Demonstrated strength in systems thinking - comfortable modeling cross-product flows (e.g., Payroll Finance ESS Compensation).
- Experience defining and delivering quarterly product OKRs with measurable customer and business impact.
- Proven ability to balance immediate customer issues with medium-term platform direction, making thoughtful trade-offs.
- Excellent communication and storytelling: able to influence pods, align stakeholders, and articulate decision frameworks clearly.
- High ownership, structured problem-solving, and comfort with ambiguity in compliance-heavy, multi-geo environments.
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