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About WorkAxle
WorkAxle is a modern Workforce Management (WFM) platform built for complex, multi-location organizations. We help businesses streamline operations and elevate the employee experience through cutting-edge technology, including AI, automation, and smart integrations. Recognized in Gartner's Market Guide, WorkAxle is reshaping how companies manage their people-faster, smarter, and at scale.
Responsibilities
- Own the roadmap and backlog of a technically complex product area
- Lead the end-to-end product development lifecycle in collaboration with engineering, design, and customer teams
- Translate business needs into clear product requirements using Jira, Confluence, and Agile best practices
- Think strategically and act tactically - balancing immediate needs with long-term vision
- Identify hidden user needs and pain points using data and customer feedback
- Serve as the bridge between engineering and business - translating technical possibilities into business value
- Understand and contribute to discussions around architecture: APIs, microservices, data layers, and system design from the Product standpoint
- Collaborate with engineering teams to ensure feature feasibility, performance, and scalability
- Maintain clear documentation using Confluence, sequence diagrams, and technical specs
- Analyze user and system behavior to uncover integration challenges and edge cases
- Ensure secure and scalable authorization and authentication practices are built into the product
Required Skills & Experience
- 5+ years of Product Management experience in SaaS B2B environments
- Being able to speak the same language with engineering on concepts and topics like microservices, APIs, databases, data lakes.
- Fluent in architectural documentation (e.g., sequence diagrams, data flow charts)
- Experience with authentication and authorization challenges that multi-tenant systems face.
- Exceptional communication skills - able to synthesize technical details into business context
- Agile mindset with experience using Jira and Confluence
- Experience in fast-growing tech companies, ideally in workforce management or HRIS
- Highly valued: Background in engineering or systems design