Product Manager, Joining

We are recruiting for the Product Manager, Joining, located in Sao Paulo, Brazil or Bogota, Colombia. 

HR Digital enables Johnson & Johnson’s people strategy through product-led innovation, intelligent automation, and scalable digital capabilities that strengthen enterprise agility and employee experience. 

As the pace of workforce and business change accelerates, the ability to deliver intuitive, data-informed, and globally consistent employee experiences is a strategic differentiator. HR Digital advances this shift by evolving HR from a traditional service model to a product-centric, insight-driven operating model that delivers measurable business value, operational efficiency, and resilience at scale. 

Within this context, the Joining portfolio focuses on the digital products, workflows, and experiences that support candidates, hiring managers, HR, and service teams through pre-hire and onboarding moments that shape first impressions and accelerate readiness. The portfolio is responsible for advancing a compliant, seamless, and user-centered capabilities that improve hiring-to-start transitions, reduce friction, and strengthen the new hire experience across the enterprise. 

The Product Manager, Joining supports the development and execution of product strategy for the Joining domain, translating enterprise priorities into practical employee, candidate, and HR outcomes. This role is responsible for managing roadmap execution and value delivery across assigned capabilities, with a focus on adoption, experience, compliance, efficiency, and operational performance. 

Operating within the HR Digital product model, this role partners across Talent Acquisition, HR COEs, Global Services, Digital, Data, Engineering, and Delivery teams to drive end-to-end product outcomes across joining journeys. The role serves as a product manager for the assigned domain capabilities, with accountability for backlog health, execution quality, adoption, and operational readiness, while partnering closely with the Associate Product Manager, Joining on roadmap alignment, prioritization, and delivery tradeoffs. 

Major Duties & Responsibilities 

Strategic Product Ownership (45%) 

• Support development and execution of the product roadmap for Joining, aligned to enterprise HR vision and portfolio priorities. 

• Translate business needs, policy requirements, and user insights into cohesive product requirements and end-to-end digital experiences across pre-hire and onboarding workflows. 

• Define and monitor outcome-based success metrics related to readiness, completion, experience, efficiency, data quality, and service performance. 

• Manage assigned capabilities across the product lifecycle, identifying opportunities to simplify, automate, scale, or retire capabilities. 

• Contribute to business case development, value hypotheses, and benefits realization for domain-level initiatives. 

Delivery & Cross-Functional Leadership (35%) 

• Lead cross-functional work across Product Delivery, Experience Design, Data, Engineering, Talent Acquisition Operations, and HR Operations to deliver domain outcomes. 

• Own backlog prioritization, dependency management, and delivery sequencing for assigned capabilities. 

• Partner with HR COEs, Global Services, and process owners to balance global standards, local needs, compliance requirements, and user experience. 

• Identify risks, dependencies, and delivery tradeoffs, escalating as appropriate to the Senior Manager or Product Line Leader. 

• Ensure high-quality execution, testing readiness, change readiness, and operational readiness of delivered capabilities. 

Continuous Improvement & Enablement (20%) 

• Represent the voice of candidates, new hires, hiring managers, HR partners, and service teams through discovery and feedback loops. 

• Drive continuous improvement through user insights, service performance trends, and operational learning. 

• Support product adoption and enablement by helping stakeholders understand new capabilities, changes, and expected outcomes. 

• Contribute to product standards, patterns, and ways of working across HR Digital. 

Qualifications 

Required Qualifications 

• A minimum of a Bachelor’s degree is required. 

• A minimum of 5–7 years of experience in product management, HR technology, digital product delivery, or related roles is required. 

• A minimum of 3 years of HR or HR-adjacent experience is required. 

• Experience managing product delivery for domain capabilities, with accountability for measurable business, operational, and experience outcomes. 

• Strong understanding of HR operating models, talent acquisition and onboarding processes, and digital platform ecosystems. 

• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams in complex, matrixed environments and influence across organizational boundaries. 

• Proficiency in modern product management and agile delivery practices, including backlog management, prioritization, and iterative value delivery. 

• Ability to translate complex process and technology concepts into clear product direction, decisions, and execution priorities. 

Preferred Qualifications 

• Hands-on experience with Workday, recruiting, onboarding, and broader HR digital ecosystems is preferred. 

• Experience applying automation, analytics, or AI to recruiting, joining, onboarding, or related HR service workflows is preferred. 

Leadership Behaviors 

• Enterprise-minded: Prioritizes enterprise outcomes over local optimization. 

• Outcome-obsessed: Measures success through impact and experience. 

• Strategic simplifier: Reduces complexity and friction. 

• Inclusive collaborator: Elevates diverse perspectives and shared ownership.