Adam Henisa

Senior Product Manager

Operating at Principal Scope

Professional Summary

Principal-scope Product Manager with 12+ years of experience owning high-risk, high-visibility platform initiatives across SaaS, HCM, and FinTech. Trusted with ambiguous, cross-domain problem spaces spanning architecture, delivery risk, internal controls, and executive decision-making. Proven track record modernizing legacy systems, integrating acquisitions, and building durable product operating models that scale across organizations.

Core Competencies

  • Platform & Core Systems Strategy
  • API-First Architecture & Domain Decoupling
  • Complex Data Models (Search, Graph, Eventing)
  • Post-M&A Product & Engineering Integration
  • Principal-Level Roadmap Ownership (Multi-Domain)
  • Product Operations & Delivery Governance
  • Risk, Security & Data Integrity Leadership
  • Product Mentorship

Experience

Senior Product Manager | Paylocity

June 2021 - November 2025

Remote

Domains: Core HR, People Search, Org Chart, APIs, Headcount Planning (post M&A)

  • Owned platform strategy for core employee-data systems, including post-acquisition Headcount Planning (Trace) planning and execution, under significant architectural and dependency constraints.
  • Led strategic migration of employee search from legacy SQL/stored procedures to MongoDB, enabling real-time enterprise filtering and reducing latency from seconds to milliseconds.
  • Defined an API-first interoperability model enabling Org Chart, Directory, User Access, Core HR, and other downstream products to consume shared employee data services.
  • Orchestrated multiple concurrent roadmaps across domains, reframing delivery decisions around risk-adjusted outcomes rather than feature completeness or timelines as guideposts.
  • Established product operations standards across Jira, Confluence, and Pendo, reducing backlog refinement time by 33% and increasing effective delivery throughput by 200%.
  • Served as a company-wide Product Analytics SME (Pendo), enabling data-backed roadmap and investment decisions.
  • Proactively identified and drove remediation of critical cross-company data exposure and script-injection vulnerabilities, acting as an informal internal-controls checkpoint.
  • Delivered major platform launches including Modern Org Chart, scaling from ~82k DAU at launch to ~150k DAU and 5M+ annual users.

Digital Product Owner | MidFirst Bank

January 2020 - June 2021

Oklahoma City, OK

Domains: Digital Banking, Consumer Banking, Product Analytics

  • Led and administered rollout of Pendo analytics, defining tracking taxonomy and adoption frameworks for Monifi banking platform for web and mobile.
  • Served as Technical PO for AI-driven natural language search and marketing automation (Zendesk) initiatives.
  • Standardized documentation and compliance practices across the Digital Banking organization working with internal governance stakeholders.
  • Worked with cross-functional groups to craft and manage Monifi credit card program.

Senior Product Manager | Paycom

March 2014 - December 2019

Oklahoma City, OK

Domains: Recruiting, Document Management, Workflows, Compliance, Reporting

  • Founding member of Paycom’s Product organization (4th PM hired); helped professionalize product management and delivery practices.
  • Self-initiated and independently built Paycom’s internal competitive intelligence platform, leveraging Drupal and early AI-based document parsing to automatically ingest, classify, and normalize competitive data from press releases and public sources—creating a centralized system of record used for product strategy and executive decision-making.
  • Owned a broad portfolio of multi-tenant HCM platform capabilities spanning talent acquisition, workflow orchestration, permissions, reporting infrastructure, document management, and compliance-sensitive administrative experiences.
  • Led end-to-end modernization of Paycom’s recruiting platform, evolving it from a basic job-posting tool into an enterprise hiring and headcount system linking applicants, offers, onboarding, and employee records with stronger reporting and operational transparency.
  • Delivered Paycom’s first third-party API integration, enabling large-scale job distribution and bidirectional applicant-data flow with external job boards; more than 1 million jobs were posted through the integration in its first year.
  • Built and expanded core reporting and governance capabilities, including advanced report writers, compliance reporting, attribution analytics, and audit-oriented workflows that improved visibility into hiring, document, and employment-authorization processes.
  • Designed policy-driven platform capabilities across permissions, document management, I-9/E-Verify compliance, retention controls, and guided administrative setup, translating regulatory and operational requirements into scalable product behavior.

Product Areas Managed

General Products Managed
  • Atlassian Automation (Project-Level Administration)
  • Competitive Intelligence Platform
  • Consumer Banking App (Natural Language Search)
  • Content Management Platform
  • In-House CPQ Platform
  • In-House CRM Platform
  • Platform-level APIs
  • Product Analytics (Pendo)
  • SharePoint Portal Admin
  • Service Desk (Zendesk)
Human Resources Information System Products
  • Benefits Administration
  • Document Management
  • Employee Change Workflows
  • Expense Management
  • Headcount Planning
  • I-9 / E-Verify Compliance
  • Org Charts
  • Performance & Compensation Management
  • Recruiting
  • Surveys

Education

University of Central Oklahoma | Bachelor of Business Administration, Marketing

Certifications

Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) | Scrum Alliance | ID: 001340178

Adam Henisa

Senior Product Manager

Operating at Principal Scope

Professional Summary

HRIS-focused product leader with 10+ years of experience building enterprise HCM systems across recruiting, headcount planning, core employee data, org modeling, directory/search, document management, permissions, compliance, and reporting infrastructure. At Paylocity, owned strategy and execution for People Finder, Org Chart, Directory, Personal Profile, and Headcount Planning, including employee-data platform modernization, API-first interoperability, and cross-functional alignment with User Access, HR, Operations, and adjacent product teams. At Paycom, served as a founding Product Manager and led a broad portfolio spanning ATS, requisition and headcount workflows, candidate tracking, offer management, onboarding-connected data flows, document management, performance processes, employee change workflows, surveys, permissions, I-9/E-Verify compliance, and enterprise reporting—translating complex policy, regulatory, and operational requirements into scalable, auditable software.

Core Competencies

  • API-First Integrations & Data Interoperability
  • Compliance, Auditability & Records Governance
  • Core HR & Employee Data Systems
  • Document Management & Form Workflows
  • Employee Lifecycle Workflows
  • Headcount Planning & Workforce Modeling
  • HRIS / HCM Platform Product Management
  • Org Modeling, Directory & People Search
  • Permissions, User Access & Data Visibility
  • Reporting Infrastructure & Product Analytics
  • Talent Acquisition & Hiring Systems
  • Workflow Automation & Approval Routing

Experience

Senior Product Manager | Paylocity

June 2021 - November 2025

Remote

Domains: Core HR, People Search, Org Chart, APIs, Headcount Planning (post M&A)

  • Owned strategy and execution across Core HR-adjacent platform domains including Employee Search Platform, Org Chart, Company Directory, Personal Profile, and Headcount Planning, shaping how employee data, hierarchy, and workforce-planning capabilities were modeled and consumed across products.
  • Led modernization of legacy employee-search infrastructure from SQL/stored procedures to Mongo-based services, enabling real-time enterprise filtering, materially improving query responsiveness, and supporting broader discovery and visualization use cases.
  • Defined API-first interoperability patterns for shared employee-data services used by Org Chart, Directory, User Access, and Core HR, improving downstream consistency and reducing duplication across dependent teams.
  • Orchestrated multiple concurrent roadmaps across domains, reframing delivery decisions around risk-adjusted outcomes rather than feature completeness or timelines as guideposts.
  • Built a net-new, data-driven 18-month roadmap for long-term inactive product and restored operational discipline by triaging 100+ outstanding requests and returning the domain to 91%+ acknowledgment SLA and 100% disposition compliance in just 1 quarter.
  • Served as a company-wide Product Analytics SME (Pendo), enabling data-backed roadmap and investment decisions.
  • Implemented Jira and Confluence automation that enabled refinement, estimation, and scheduling of 57 user stories across 8 epics in roughly 6 hours, dramatically improving planning throughput, transparency, and engineering readiness, resuling in an 800%+ increase in team planning productivity.
  • Delivered major platform launches including Modern Org Chart, employee benefits import, and scalable employee search platform. Org Chart scaled from ~82k DAU at launch to ~150k DAU and 5M+ annual users.

Digital Product Owner | MidFirst Bank

January 2020 - June 2021

Oklahoma City, OK

Domains: Digital Banking, Consumer Banking, Product Analytics

  • Led and administered rollout of Pendo analytics, defining tracking taxonomy and adoption frameworks for Monifi banking platform for web and mobile.
  • Served as Technical PO for AI-driven natural language search and marketing automation (Zendesk) initiatives.
  • Standardized documentation and compliance practices across the Digital Banking organization working with internal governance stakeholders.
  • Worked with cross-functional groups to craft and manage Monifi credit card program.

Senior Product Manager | Paycom

March 2014 - December 2019

Oklahoma City, OK

Domains: Recruiting, Document Management, Workflows, Compliance, Reporting

  • Founding member of Paycom’s Product organization (4th PM hired); helped professionalize product management and delivery practices.
  • Owned a broad portfolio of multi-tenant HCM platform capabilities spanning talent acquisition, workflow orchestration, permissions, reporting infrastructure, document management, and compliance-sensitive administrative experiences.
  • Led end-to-end modernization of Paycom’s recruiting platform, evolving it from a basic job-posting tool into an enterprise hiring and headcount system linking applicants, offers, onboarding, and employee records with stronger reporting and operational transparency.
  • Revolutionized Paycom's Employee Change Workflows (Personnel Action Forms) by creating a customizable and scalable platform for admins to create custom forms and workflows, creating a major differentiator in the market at the time.
  • Built Paycom's fillable PDF platform allowing admins to create customizable PDFs, from any type of document, within the platform for employees to complete on both web and mobile.
  • Designed policy-driven platform capabilities across permissions, document management, I-9/E-Verify compliance, retention controls, and guided administrative setup, translating regulatory and operational requirements into scalable product behavior.
  • Self-initiated and independently built Paycom’s internal competitive intelligence platform, leveraging Drupal and early AI-based document parsing to automatically ingest, classify, and normalize competitive data from press releases and public sources—creating a centralized system of record used for product strategy and executive decision-making.

Product Areas Managed

Human Resources Information System Products
  • Benefits Administration
  • Document Management
  • Employee Change Workflows
  • Expense Management
  • Headcount Planning
  • I-9 / E-Verify Compliance
  • Org Charts
  • Performance & Compensation Management
  • Recruiting
  • Surveys
General Products Managed
  • Atlassian Automation (Project-Level Administration)
  • Competitive Intelligence Platform
  • Consumer Banking App (Natural Language Search)
  • Content Management Platform
  • In-House CPQ Platform
  • In-House CRM Platform
  • Platform-level APIs
  • Product Analytics (Pendo)
  • SharePoint Portal Admin
  • Service Desk (Zendesk)

Education

University of Central Oklahoma | Bachelor of Business Administration, Marketing

Certifications

Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) | Scrum Alliance | ID: 001340178

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