Director of Product Management – HCM Product Innovation

Job Description

Director, Product Management | ADP

The Tone:
This is a full-time leadership role at ADP, located in Milan or Barcelona. ADP builds global Human Capital Management (HCM) platforms and solutions, integrating HR and payroll services for businesses worldwide. This position is critical for leading product business across Southern Europe, driving growth and client value in Spain, Portugal, and Italy. It serves as the regional product leader, responsible for product-market fit and business outcomes while contributing to the evolution of ADP’s global HCM platform.

The TL;DR
• Role: Full Time
• Type: Full-time
• Location: In-person – Milan or Barcelona
• Pay: EUR79400–EUR171400 yearly
• Team: Leads a regional product management team, collaborating with global product forums.
• Mission: This person owns product-market fit and business outcomes while driving growth, adoption, and client value across Southern Europe.

What You’ll Actually Do
• Drive Business Outcomes: Own product-market fit, growth, and profitability across Southern Europe, sharing accountability with regional leadership for revenue, adoption, client retention, and Net Promoter Score (NPS), while acting as the voice of the market to ensure product investments yield measurable business impact.
• Shape Regional Product Strategy: Own the regional product strategy and roadmap, ensuring alignment with ADP’s global platform direction, driving two-way influence by embedding regional needs into global roadmaps, and scaling global capabilities locally, making trade-offs between standardization and market competitiveness.
• Lead AI Product Innovation: Lead the development of AI-powered product experiences, embedding automation and intelligence into core HR and payroll workflows, partnering with Engineering, AI, and UX to productize agentic capabilities at scale, and ensuring solutions meet enterprise standards for security, compliance, and data governance.
• Build and Lead Product Organization: Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing team of Product Managers across the region, establishing strong product management practices including discovery, prioritization, and outcome measurement, and building a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Oversee End-to-End Delivery and Executive Partnership: Own end-to-end delivery outcomes from discovery through launch and market adoption, ensuring execution excellence by balancing speed, quality, and scalability, and acting as an executive product partner by engaging directly with enterprise clients, partners, and senior stakeholders to shape demand and validate strategy.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Director-level product leader with a deep understanding of complex, regulated domains such as HR technology, payroll, or adjacent industries.
• Experience: Proven experience owning regional or multi-market product portfolios with measurable business impact, a strong track record of delivering growth, adoption, and customer value in enterprise environments, and experience operating in a global product organization with local market adaptations.
• Skills: Strong commercial acumen, executive stakeholder management capabilities, demonstrated ability to lead through influence in matrixed organizations, fluent in English, and advanced in Italian and/or Spanish.
• Bonus: Experience driving or contributing to AI-enabled product innovation.