Product Manager – Configuration Promotion & Onboarding (12-Month Contract)

About the role

We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Product Manager to lead the development and delivery of solutions that enhance the efficiency, accuracy, and scalability of configuration promotion and customer onboarding automation across environments. This role is pivotal to drive value to our customers quickly by enabling a seamless and intuitive user experience (UX) that empowers internal teams to manage configuration promotion processes for large-scale enterprise applications with ease and confidence. You will also be responsible for product management of customer onboarding automation, helping to streamline and accelerate the onboarding process through innovative tooling and process improvements. You will manage the product backlog, define and deliver roadmap items, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure successful implementation and adoption of new capabilities.

The successful candidate will enter an agile team of product and technology professionals working from home full-time with face-to-face meetings where required. Calls are used daily to facilitate development of the product using Teams and live shares.

Responsibilities:

• Define and execute a product strategy and roadmap focused on improving configuration promotion & onboarding processes and enabling intuitive UX.
• Manage and prioritise the product backlog, ensuring alignment with business goals, technical feasibility, and user needs.
• Collaborate with design and engineering teams to implement a user experience that simplifies and streamlines configuration promotion tasks.
• Work closely with engineering, customer success, and operations teams to deliver high-impact solutions.
• Dive deep into the life of implementation consultants to understand onboarding and configuration promotion processes.
• Identify and implement repeatable models and automation opportunities to streamline configuration workflows.
• Act as the voice of the customer and internal teams to ensure product decisions are informed by real-world challenges and opportunities.
• Use analytics and feedback loops to monitor product performance, identify areas for improvement, and iterate quickly.
• Collaborate with customer-facing teams to gather insights, resolve pain points, and drive adoption of new capabilities.

Skills & experience

• An understanding of environment promotion, system integrations, and onboarding processes in enterprise software.
• Background in engineering-related disciplines and an appreciation of challenges in a multi-tenanted architecture with a varied stack.
• Proven experience managing product backlogs and delivering complex solutions
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Analytical mindset with the ability to use data to drive decisions and measure success.
• Experience working in cross-functional teams and influencing without direct authority.
• Passion for solving operational challenges and improving customer experiences.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, evolving environment.

Desirable Skills:

• A background in a technology-focused company, ideally in HR, payroll, or enterprise SaaS.
• Experience of Agile software practices and working effectively within a modern development team.
• Demonstrated success in delivering scalable and repeatable solutions.
• Strong technical acumen and ability to translate complex requirements into actionable plans.
• Customer-centric mindset with a focus on delivering measurable value.
• Organised, methodical, and self-driven.

Personal Skills:

• A strong customer focus and a passion for creating user-centric and value-driven products and services.
• Smart and restlessly curious to learn new products, technology and business processes.
• Proven ability to drive multi-disciplined development teams in a remote, global environment.

Benefits & culture

At Zellis we create market-leading HR & Payroll products and services, to power exceptional employee experiences so that you and your people do better. Our multi-award-winning products pay over five million employees a year, with almost half (42%) of the FTSE 100, 50% of the top retailers and 30% of the top universities in the UK & Ireland as customers, making us the largest provider of Payroll and HR software and managed services.

Our vision is to be the clear leader in pay, reward, analytics, and people experiences. We're passionate about creating an environment where people want to join, belong to, and be part of a progressive organisation.

Our values, which were defined with input from all of our 2,000 colleagues, we live and breathe every day:

• Unstoppable together.
• Always learning.
• Make it count.
• Think scale.

Our people are critical to our ongoing success; we’re proud of our inclusive culture that gives you the platform to grow, challenge the status quo and play a crucial role in further enhancing our market position as the leading provider of HR & Payroll software and services. With Zellis you’ll have the chance to stretch and challenge yourself in an environment that’s varied, flexible and hugely supportive.

We also love to reward and recognise our brilliant colleagues. As part of your benefits package, you’ll receive:

• A competitive base salary.
• 25 days annual leave, plus your birthday off and the opportunity to buy additional holiday.
• Private medical insurance.
• Life assurance 4x salary.
• Enhanced pension scheme with company contributions up to 8.5%.
• A huge range of additional flexible benefits across financial & personal wellbeing, lifestyle & leisure.