Why Work Here
- Headquarters is in Charlotte, NC
- Recently expanded to nearshore
- isolved ranked for SMB Payroll in 2023 Sapient Report
- Voted top places to work in USA 2023
Job Description
The Manager, Product Engineering for the Suite Experience leads a team of architects and developers focused on modernizing isolved's core HCM user experience by replacing legacy UI patterns with modern, responsive interfaces across its HR, payroll, benefits, and talent products. This role requires a balance of strong people leadership and delivery management, ensuring teams follow effective agile practices through coaching, capacity planning, and accountability for commitments, while also developing talent, addressing skill gaps and performance issues early. Acting as a strategic partner to product management, the manager helps align quarterly commitments with realistic capacity and combines solid technical judgement with leadership expertise in distributed environments to guide architectural decisions, support code quality, remove blockers proactively, use data to assess delivery risks, and translate technical efforts into business value for stakeholders.
Core Job Duties
- Drive effective agile execution and continuous improvement by coaching scrum masters and team leads, adapting processes to team needs
- Monitor team health and delivery performance using data, proactively address issues proactively, communicate risks, capacity, and business impact to leadership with transparency and early escalation
- Partner closely with product management on planning and roadmap development, using data to ensure commitments are realistic and aligned with capacity
- Remove blockers proactively, empower teams to resolve issues, and coordinate dependencies across sub-teams and workstreams
- Develop & support team members through regular 1:1s, targeted coaching, and mentorship to grow technical, leadership, and domain skills, while leading hiring and performance evaluations that foster career development
- Proactively identify and address underperformance using data and observation, following a structured approach to resolution before issues escalate.
- Maintaining technical credibility with the team through engagement in code reviews, architecture discussions, and proof of concept work
- Connecting engineering decisions to business outcomes, explaining tradeoffs between technical excellence and speed to market
Minimum Qualifications
- 10+ years of software development experience
- 4+ years of engineering management experience, including direct reports and performance management responsibility
- Managing distributed or offshore engineering teams
- Demonstrated experience managing development teams using Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, or hybrid)
- Strong skills in:
- C#, .NET, Angular, SQL server
- Experience with:
- Azure cloud services
- CI/CD pipelines and deployment practices
- Azure DevOps, Jira, or similar project management tools
- Code review processes and quality standards
- Angular/React
- HCM, HR tech, or enterprise B2B SaaS
About Isolved
isolved is an employee experience leader, providing intuitive, people-first HCM (Human Capital Management) technology. Our solutions are delivered directly or through our partner network to more than five million employees and 145,000 employers - who use them every day to boost performance, increase productivity, and accelerate results while reducing risk. Our HCM platform, isolved People Cloud, seamlessly connects and manages the employee journey across talent management, HR & payroll, workforce management and engagement management functions. No matter the industry, we help high-growth organizations employ, enable and empower their workforce by transforming employee experience for a better today and a better tomorrow. For more information, visit www.isolvedhcm.com.
EEO Statement
isolved is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status. isolved is a progressive and open-minded meritocracy. If you are smart and good at what you do, come as you are.
Disability Accommodation
Visit www.isolvedhcm.com/careers for more information regarding our incredible culture and focus on our employee experience. Visit www.isolvedeebenefits.com for a comprehensive list of our employee total rewards offerings.
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions outlined above.
In adherence to relevant pay transparency legislation and regulations, we endeavor to offer
clarity regarding our compensation methodology for this position. While specific pay ranges
are presently under review to ensure alignment with competitive market standards, we will
furnish this information upon finalization.
At our organization, individual compensation structures are established through a consistent
and equitable process, taking into account various pertinent factors. These factors
encompass geographic location, job-specific competencies, educational attainment,
professional certifications, and pertinent experience. This structured approach enables us to
align our total rewards package competitively with each employee\'s qualifications, duties,
and contributions to our collective success.
An employee\'s comprehensive compensation package comprises diverse components, such
as base salary, performance-linked bonuses or commissions, long-term incentives like equity
grants, and an extensive benefits portfolio. Should you advance as a finalist candidate, you
will have the opportunity to explore our overarching compensation philosophy, practices,
and how your unique background informs an appropriate compensation proposition.
Our commitment lies in fostering a fair, impartial, and transparent compensation framework
throughout our workforce. All compensation determinations are aimed at justly
acknowledging and rewarding the value, qualifications, and significant contributions that our
employees bring to their roles and to the company\'s achievements. We welcome your
inquiries about our principles of pay equity, accompanying analyses, and associated
procedures throughout the recruitment process.
