Director, Product Management

Location: Milan or Barcelona

Overview

ADP is looking for a Director of Product Management to lead our product business across Southern Europe. This is a critical leadership role at the intersection of global platform strategy and local market execution, with accountability for driving growth, adoption, and client value across Spain, Portugal, and Italy. As the regional product leader, you will own product‑market fit and business outcomes in your markets while shaping and influencing ADP’s global HCM platform. This role requires strong product judgment, commercial acumen, and the ability to lead in a complex, matrixed, multinational environment.

What you’ll do

• Own business outcomes
• Drive product‑market fit, growth, and profitability across Southern Europe
• Share accountability with regional leadership for revenue, adoption, client retention, and NPS
• Act as the voice of the market, ensuring product investments translate into measurable business impact
• Lead product strategy in a global platform model
• Own the regional product strategy and roadmap, aligned with ADP’s global platform direction
• Drive two‑way influence, embedding regional needs into global roadmaps while scaling global capabilities locally
• Make trade‑offs between standardization and localization, balancing platform consistency with market competitiveness
• Drive AI‑enabled product innovation
• Lead the development of AI‑powered product experiences, embedding automation and intelligence into core HR and payroll workflows
• Partner with Engineering, AI, and UX to productize agentic capabilities at scale
• Ensure solutions meet enterprise standards for security, compliance, and data governance
• Build and lead a high‑performing product organization
• Lead, coach, and develop a team of Product Managers across the region
• Establish strong product management practices, including discovery, prioritization, and outcome measurement
• Build a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement
• Own end‑to‑end delivery outcomes, from discovery through launch and market adoption
• Ensure execution excellence, balancing speed, quality, and scalability
• Drive alignment across Product, Engineering, Sales, and Client Success
• Act as an executive product partner
• Engage directly with enterprise clients, partners, and senior stakeholders
• Shape demand and validate strategy through deep customer insight
• Represent the region in global product forums and leadership discussions

To succeed in this role

• Proven experience owning regional or multi‑market product portfolios with measurable business impact
• Strong track record of delivering growth, adoption, and customer value in enterprise environments
• Experience operating in a global product organization with local market adaptations
• Deep understanding of complex, regulated domains (HR tech, payroll, or adjacent industries preferred)
• Demonstrated ability to lead through influence in matrixed organizations
• Strong commercial acumen and executive stakeholder management skills
• Experience driving or contributing to AI‑enabled product innovation is a strong advantage
• Fluent in English; advanced in Italian and/or Spanish

You’ll love working here because you can

• Shape the product strategy of a critical region within a global product management team
• Operate autonomously with real business ownership and visible impact
• Work on AI‑driven product innovation at enterprise scale
• Lead and grow a high‑impact product organization in an international environment

Equal Employment Opportunity

ADP is committed to an inclusive, diverse and equitable workplace, and is further committed to providing equal employment opportunities regardless of any protected characteristic including race, color, genetic information, creed, national origin, religion, sex, affectionate or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, lawful alien status, ancestry, age, marital status, protected veteran status or disability. Hiring decisions are based upon ADP’s operating needs, and applicant merit including, but not limited to, qualifications, experience, ability, availability, cooperation, and job performance.