Job Title: Head of Product
Reporting to: Chief Executive Officer
Location: Denver, CO preferred
Compensation: Base salary range of $225,000 – $260,000 annually, reflecting a good-faith estimate for this role. Eligible for a performance-based bonus and equity participation. This role offers meaningful variable compensation, with total cash compensation generally expected to exceed $300,000 based on performance.
About HRSoft, Inc.: HRSoft’s platform is trusted by enterprise organizations to manage complex compensation programs, providing a strong foundation for continued innovation and scale. The company is uniquely positioned to define the future of compensation management through HRSoft Intelligence, embedding AI across the compensation lifecycle to drive automation, insights, and better decision-making for HR and Finance leaders.
HRSoft has evolved from a single-product company into a multi-product LCNC platform through strategic acquisitions. With a strong engineering foundation and an expanding customer base, the company is entering its next phase: evolving into a product-led, AI-powered LCNC platform company.
This is a pivotal moment. HRSoft is seeking a product leader who can unify the platform, lead AI-driven innovation, and elevate the overall product experience, while operating effectively in a lean, execution-focused environment.
Position Overview: The Head of Product will define and execute HRSoft’s next phase of product evolution. This role extends beyond product management discipline. The Head of Product will:
- Lead the transition to a product-led, platform-centric organization
- Scale HRSoft’s AI product strategy
- Unify multiple products into a cohesive, scalable platform
- Accelerate verticalized solutions, starting with Financial Services
- Position HRSoft as the category leader in AI-powered compensation management
- Execute the company’s product vision as defined by the Product Council, directing Product Managers, Product Designers and Product Owners to bring that vision to life and equipping Engineering with the requirements needed to build the intended solution
- Serve as the primary spokesperson and ambassador for the company’s product vision, regularly engaging with customers, prospects, vendors, influencers, and press to communicate how HRSoft’s products differentiate and deliver optimal value.
Key Responsibilities:
Build a High-Performance, Product-Led Organization
- Lead a Product Council that brings together cross-functional leadership to align on product vision, strategic priorities, and major investment decisions, ensuring company-wide clarity and accountability
- Establish clear product ownership across the portfolio
- Implement disciplined roadmap governance and prioritization frameworks
- Strengthen a forward-looking, product-led roadmap aligned to long-term platform vision
- Introduce metrics and accountability tied to product performance and business outcomes
- Develop a scalable operating cadence across Product, Engineering, Sales, and Services.
2. Lead AI-Native Product Strategy (HRSoft Intelligence)
- Scale an expanding portfolio of AI capabilities into a cohesive, value-driven product strategy
- Identify and prioritize high-impact AI use cases across compensation workflows:
Configuration and workflow automation
Plan design and optimization
Forecasting and modeling
Decision support for HR and CFO stakeholders
- Partner with Engineering to scale agentic capabilities (e.g., configuration assistants, formula builders)
- Ensure AI capabilities are aligned to measurable customer outcomes and enterprise requirements
- Define monetization and packaging strategies aligned to customer value and product growth
3. Execute Platform Strategy
- Unify the product suite into a cohesive platform experience
- Drive shared services across products, including:
Data model and architecture
Workflow and rules engine
Reporting and analytics
AI services layer
- Improve interoperability across the platform
- Strengthen ecosystem integrations (Workday, UKG, SAP, Oracle)
- Clearly position HRSoft as a platform, not a point solution
4. Advance User Experience to Enterprise Standards
- Further advance a cohesive, enterprise-grade user experience across all products
- Lead UI/UX continuous improvements
- Align UX with complex enterprise workflows and decision-making needs
- Improve usability, consistency, and design maturity across the platform
5. Drive Vertical Product Strategy (Initial Focus: Financial Services)
- Accelerate vertical strategy with an initial focus on Financial Services
- Translate industry-specific requirements into differentiated product capabilities
- Partner closely with go-to-market teams to ensure strong product-market alignment
- Establish a repeatable model for expansion into additional verticals
6. Lead in a Lean, Hands-On Environment
- Lead and develop a high-impact product team (Product Director and PMs)
- Develop deep subject matter expertise in compensation, incentives and financial outcomes, enabling credible engagement with senior HR and Finance stakeholders and ensuring product decisions reflect real-world complexity and value drivers.
- Incorporate rapid "Build-Measure-Learn" cycles to validate high-impact features against hard-dollar customer ROI, ensuring that every technological breakthrough is coupled with a superior distribution strategy to secure undisputed category leadership.
- Serve as the final arbiter and negotiator on product trade-offs, aligning internal stakeholders and, where needed, directly engaging with customers to ensure commitments are strategic, scalable, and aligned to long-term platform vision.
- Coach and elevate product management capabilities
- Operate effectively without large support infrastructure
- Stay close to customers, implementations, and engineering teams
- Drive execution with urgency and ownership in a high-growth environment
7. Evolve Platform Capabilities to Enhance Customer Experience
- Lead the evolution of integration strategy, including evaluation of scalable middleware and connectivity approaches
- Further streamline customer onboarding and integration at scale
- Drive adoption of product analytics tools to inform roadmap decisions and improve customer outcomes
- Leverage usage data, customer feedback, and operational insights to prioritize product investments
- Establish a disciplined build vs. buy framework for enabling technologies
8. Lead Product Strategy for M&A and Platform Expansion
- Partner with CEO, CFO, and investors to evaluate potential acquisitions aligned to HRSoft’s platform and AI strategy
- Lead product diligence efforts, including assessment of:
Product architecture and scalability
AI capabilities and extensibility
Data models and integration complexity
Customer use cases and product-market fit
- Define post-acquisition product integration strategy:
Platform alignment (data, workflows, UX)
Rationalization of overlapping capabilities
Integration into shared services (AI, analytics, workflows)
- Drive execution of product integration plans to accelerate time-to-value from acquisitions
- Ensure acquisitions strengthen HRSoft’s positioning as a unified, AI-powered platform, not a collection of point solutions
- Partner cross-functionally (R&D, GTM, Client Success) to align product integration with commercial strategy and customer impact
Team & Environment
- Strong and capable engineering team
- Built on a foundation of engineering excellence and customer driven innovation
- Collaborative, engineering-forward culture where product leadership partners closely to drive outcomes
This role requires a leader who operates without “ivory tower” distance from execution and leads through credibility, alignment, and results.
Ideal Profile
Experience
- · 10–15+ years of product leadership experience in enterprise B2B SaaS (HCM experience preferred)
- · Proven experience building or transforming multi-product platforms
- · Experience embedding AI capabilities into enterprise software products
- · Experience verticalizing products (Financial Services strongly preferred)
- · Background combining larger enterprise experience (e.g. Workday, UKG, SAP) with hands-on leadership in a growth-stage company
- · Experience leading or supporting product diligence and post-acquisition integration in a multi-product or private equity-backed environment.
Capabilities
- Strong product strategy and execution discipline
- Deep understanding of platform architecture and product scalability
- Experience leading AI-driven product innovation
- Ability to connect product decisions to business outcomes (ARR, retention, expansion)
- Comfortable operating at both strategic and tactical levels
Leadership Style & Cultural Fit
- Influential leader in engineering-forward environments
- Hands-on, roll-up-the-sleeves operator
- Builds credibility through domain expertise and execution
- Able to drive change while navigating and evolving existing culture
- Strong ownership mindset with a focus on value creation
What Success Looks Like (12–24 Months)
- A unified product platform with clear ownership and direction
- AI capabilities embedded across core workflows with measurable adoption
- Improved customer onboarding and reduced time-to-value
- Strong product-market alignment and increased customer satisfaction
- Increased expansion revenue driven by product capabilities
- Successful integration of acquired products into the platform, with measurable impact on product cohesion, customers satisfaction, and revenue growth
- A scalable product operating model aligned with company growth objectives
- Clear market differentiation as a leader in AI-powered compensation management
