Adam Henisa
Senior Product Manager
Operating at Principal ScopeProfessional 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
- 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)
- 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 ScopeProfessional 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
- Benefits Administration
- Document Management
- Employee Change Workflows
- Expense Management
- Headcount Planning
- I-9 / E-Verify Compliance
- Org Charts
- Performance & Compensation Management
- Recruiting
- Surveys
- 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