Paylocity is an award-winning provider of cloud-based HR and payroll software solutions, offering the most complete platform for the modern workforce. The company has become one of the fastest-growing HCM software providers worldwide by offering an intuitive, easy-to-use product suite that helps businesses automate and streamline HR and payroll processes, attract and retain talent, and build a strong workplace culture.

While traditional HR and payroll providers automate basic HR processes such as payroll and benefits administration, Paylocity goes further by developing tools that HR and businesses need to compete for talent and deliver against the expectations of the modern workforce.

Help Paylocity enhance communication and enable employees to connect, collaborate, and create from anywhere with a position in Product & Technology!

Want to develop the strategies and principles needed to deliver compelling software? Join our team and help us enhance our all-in-one software platform, elevate our one-of-a-kind technology, and improve the employee experience. Take your career to the next level at one of G2's Top 100 Software Companies. Explore our Product & Technology positions to see where you fit!

User Experience is the function that applies principles and techniques of discovery, research, design, and content strategy to define the experience a user has in a product.

Product Designers

Product Design is an integral part of the UX organization and works directly with our product development teams. They partner directly with our product owners to understand customer behavior and deliver best-in-class user experiences within the Paylocity product suite. They are responsible for meeting multiple product teams’ user experience needs, including: Visual Design, Interaction Design, Design System Contributions, Information Architecture, Writing, Quantitative and Qualitative Research and Analysis, and Prototyping.  Product Designers are also responsible for driving design system strategy, delivering complex user interactions, advancing the craft, and expanding our market leading suite. They are leaders in the UX community and are the “go-to” resource for product designers within their team, providing direction, coaching and feedback. They are also creative thinkers and problem-solvers dedicated to putting the user first by learning through rapid experiments and frequent customer feedback loops. 

• Enthusiastic about user experience, designing the best software available and providing the ultimate customer experience. 
• An advocate for continuous improvement of our software development process. 
• Interested in staying current by applying new technologies and best practices. 
• Able to work in a collaborative environment with a willingness to share your ideas. 
• Able to work independently on modules and complete tasks with high quality, but unafraid to seek out suggestions from other team members. 
• Excited to work on cutting-edge technology. 
• UX is a central partnership supporting Product & Technology.
• The dedicated Design Systems team is committed to supporting the latest component and pattern development.
• We don’t add more people to our teams; we add additional teams to scale. 
• A casual, collaborative, agile environment that embraces and operates under our shared principles. 
• Complete transparency with open, honest discussions about our progress. 
• A close working relationship between executive stakeholders and product teams. 
• We focus on our customer’s unmet needs and leverage their input as our product co-creators. 
• We are determined and willing to experiment, embracing a fast pace and constant feedback loops.

UX Researchers

UX Researchers, will oversee research initiatives, using appropriate qualitative and quantitative methodologies to help identify and solve wider challenges for the Paylocity user groups within Product Development organization. You will educate teams of UX Design, Product Management, Engineering, Sales, and Marketing to better understand customer needs, wants and motivations. You are a storyteller, have a diverse set of research skills, a driver of change, open to new possibilities, impact oriented, and a great culture fit.  

Responsibilities 

• Oversees and drives plans for research studies of a product by planning, recruitment, execution, analysis, and with deep knowledge of both quantitative and qualitative methodologies that drive strategic findings and actionable recommendations. 
• Proactively identifies research needs and potential areas that require investigation, preemptively recognizing problem areas that warrant further research. 
• Leads others to use sense-making/analysis to synthesize and distill data for a product to ensure proper insights and recommendations are actionable for the team. 
• Exhibits exceptional negotiation skills, adeptly communicating and facilitating trade-off in planning research to come to consensus on approach and outcomes with among stakeholders. 
• Demonstrates an understanding of the company's business and delivers insights and recommendations that align with the business goals and objectives. 
• Leads and produces research-driven insights via iterative evaluative research to reduce uncertainty for conditions that may impact future initiatives supporting a product partners, and creates well-formed user experience goals, signals, 
• metrics, and criteria for product. 
• Communicate projects effectively to team and stakeholders, by exploring ways to effectively storytelling through writing, presentations, and conversations that build consensus and persuade action based on findings presented to partners. 
• Helps lead efforts by providing effective tools, templates, and other guidelines for team members to capture their assumptions and express them as testable hypotheses. 
• Offers coaching, mentorship, and guidance to stakeholders and team members to help equip teams on how to effectively apply user research methodologies, analysis, and reporting. 
• Leverages, organizes, and presents research insights and recommendations throughout the business to change and innovation, fostering a culture of collaboration and shared success.

Paylocity is an equal-opportunity employer. 

Paylocity is committed to the full inclusion of all individuals. We recruit, train, compensate, and promote regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, veteran status, and other protected status as required by applicable law. At Paylocity, we believe diversity makes us better. 

We embrace and encourage our employees’ differences in age, culture, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion or spiritual belief, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other characteristics that make our employees unique. We actively cultivate these differences through our employee resource groups (ERGs), employee experiences, perspectives, talents, and approaches to drive innovation in the software and services we provide our customers. 

We comply with federal and state disability laws and make reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities. To request reasonable accommodation in the job application or interview process, please contact leavebenefits@paylocity.com.  This email address is exclusively designated for such requests, aligning with federal and state disability laws. Please do not send resumes to this email address, as they will be removed.