Senior Lead Product Manager

ADP

$130K — $180K *
Enterprise Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Deep expertise in recruiting or HR tech, understanding end-to-end hiring workflows and candidate lifecycle
  • Proven track record in building intuitive candidate-facing experiences at scale
  • Experience applying AI/ML to enhance user experiences
  • Strong design skills for configurable enterprise platforms, balancing flexibility and user simplicity
  • Comfortable with complex global customer needs including compliance and localization
  • Ability to think in systems rather than just features
  • Highly collaborative with effective influence across teams and stakeholders
  • 10+ years of experience in Product Management within enterprise recruiting systems
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Responsibilities

  • Define and deliver AI-powered candidate experiences to drive engagement and conversion
  • Build intuitive, user-centric experiences that simplify hiring processes for diverse candidates
  • Design and scale configurable product capabilities for enterprise customization
  • Translate complex recruiting needs into clear product strategy and execution plans
  • Collaborate with engineering, UX design, and data science to develop AI-driven features
  • Engage with global customers to understand hiring challenges and validate product direction
  • Ensure solutions are scalable, extensible, and reliable at enterprise scale

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work at the intersection of AI, user experience, and enterprise platform design
  • Role offers influence over product direction and impact on industry success
  • Engagement with large, global customers for real-world problem solving
  • Collaborative work environment with cross-functional teams
  • Work in a forward-thinking company focused on recruiting technology innovations
Full Job Description

As a Senior Product Manager, you will lead the strategy and execution of AI-enabled candidate experiences within our enterprise recruiting platform. You will focus on building intuitive, personalized journeys that improve how candidates discover, engage with, and apply to opportunities, while ensuring the platform can flexibly support the complex, global needs of large organizations.

This role sits at the intersection of AI innovation, user experience, and enterprise platform design, requiring deep recruiting domain expertise and the ability to create highly configurable, scalable solutions that balance flexibility with simplicity.

WHAT YOU'LL DO:
  • Define and deliver AI-powered candidate experiences, including job discovery, matching, and application flows that drive engagement and conversion
  • Build intuitive, user-centric experiences that simplify complex hiring processes for candidates across geographies and industries
  • Design and scale configurable product capabilities that enable enterprise customers to tailor workflows, branding, and compliance requirements without custom builds
  • Translate complex enterprise recruiting needs into clear product strategy, roadmap, and execution plans
  • Partner closely with engineering, UX design, and data science to deliver AI-driven features (e.g., recommendations, automations, conversational experiences)
  • Engage with large, global customers to deeply understand their hiring challenges and validate product direction
  • Balance innovation with reliability, ensuring solutions are scalable, extensible, and performant at enterprise scale

TO SUCCEED IN THIS ROLE:

To thrive in this role, you must take command of your product, lead multiple team's efforts, and be a deep listener who can ask the right clarifying questions to help understand the problem your stakeholders are trying to solve. You've worked with Agile teams and understand product delivery cycles. You have experience explaining the prioritization of a product roadmap, creating that roadmap, and documenting in a way that both external and internal teams will understand. You have held roles where you regularly communicate and defend ideas to a broad audience of stakeholders technical or non-technical. Our best product managers are domain experts and enthusiastic creators who stay current on the latest trends. As part of our team, your voice will influence product success and help shape our industry. In addition:
  • You bring deep expertise in recruiting or HR tech, with a strong understanding of end-to-end hiring workflows and candidate lifecycle
  • You have a proven track record of building candidate-facing experiences that are both intuitive and impactful at scale
  • You understand how to apply AI/ML (including generative AI) to create meaningful, differentiated user experiences
  • You excel at designing configurable enterprise platforms, enabling flexibility without overcomplicating the user experience
  • You are comfortable navigating complex global customer requirements, including compliance, localization, and organizational variability
  • You think in systems, not just features-balancing scalability, usability, and extensibility
  • You are highly collaborative and influence effectively across cross-functional teams and senior stakeholders
  • You'll have a Bachelor's degree OR equivalent.
  • You have 10+ years of experience in Product Management, specifically in enterprise recruiting systems
  • Have a basic understanding of technology to engage with cross-functional team members.
  • Experience with Jira / Confluence for planning, documentation, and tracking.
  • Strong background in cross-functional coordination, testing cycles, and stakeholder management

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