Senior Product Manager, People Systems
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Senior Product Manager owning HR and people systems for Hugo, an African BPO and AI operations company. Automating workforce processes across secure enterprise platforms.
Responsibilities:
- Lead People Systems, a product area that moves workforce operations onto structured, secure online platforms
- Own the product area end to end: roadmap, requirements, delivery and adoption
- Run discovery with business leaders, operations teams and end users through interviews and friction logs
- Map current processes end to end and define the future state
- Set the long-term product vision and turn it into quarterly plans and a delivered roadmap
- Write PRDs, user stories, acceptance criteria, process maps and data definitions
- Lead build, buy or configure decisions on enterprise platforms
- Prioritise the backlog with business leadership, tied to measurable value
- Define success metrics before launches and report them monthly
- Manage user acceptance testing and release, triage bugs and track adoption
- Work with finance, legal, security and operations teams to meet compliance and commercial needs
- Build data privacy and access requirements into product designs
- Set requirements-quality standards and guide business analysts
- By 90 days, deliver current-state maps for the top five people processes, a people-data visibility baseline and an agreed 12-month roadmap
- By 6 months, automate and launch two priority processes with baseline and target metrics
- By 12 months, run one roadmap with a dedicated team, reduce manual HR requests and review people-data access quarterly
Requirements:
- 7 or more years in product management or senior business analysis, with at least 3 years in an enterprise domain such as HR and people operations, payments, finance operations or talent platforms
- Delivery of enterprise business transformation or business process automation programmes, from discovery through adoption
- Hands-on experience with enterprise platforms in a core domain, ideally HRIS or HCM such as Workday or SeamlessHR
- Strong business analysis craft: process mapping, requirements, data modelling and user acceptance testing
- Technical fluency to discuss integrations, APIs, workflow tools and data models with engineers
- Clear written and verbal communication, from engineers to executives
- Comfort setting direction and working with high autonomy in a fast moving environment
- Experience in BPO, managed services or shared services organisations is a strong advantage
- Delivery of an automation, chatbot or agentic assistant product is a strong advantage
- Background in Enterprise SaaS, HRIS, payments, fintech, collections, marketplaces or identity verification is a strong advantage
- Analytics experience with BI tools applied to people or operational data is a strong advantage
- Delivery across multiple countries and regulatory settings, including data protection for personal data, is a strong advantage

















