Product Marketing Business Partner (HCM/Accountancy)
This is a Permanent, Full Time vacancy that will close in {x} days at {xx:xx} BST.
The Vacancy
IRIS is growing fast. Our product portfolio is expanding, our markets are evolving, and how we position and sell our solutions has never been more important.
We’re hiring two Product Marketing Business Partners to join our global team:
- One focused on HCM (HR & Payroll)
- One focused on Accountancy
These are high-impact roles where your work directly influences pipeline, win rates, and revenue.
🧾 Why This Role Matters
This role sits at the centre of Product, Sales, and Marketing.
You will:
- Shape how our products are positioned in the market
- Help Sales teams win more deals
- Turn complex products into clear, compelling messages
- Influence decisions across teams - without needing formal authority
Your work will be visible, measurable, and commercially important.
👥 About the Team You'll Join
You’ll join a growing Product Marketing team, with strong collaboration across the UK and US.
- A mix of experienced product marketers, content specialists, and market insight experts
- Close partnership with Sales, Product, Marketing and Customer Success
- A team that has scaled significantly over the past year - with more growth ahead
You’ll work alongside subject matter experts in either HCM or Accountancy, gaining deep exposure to the market while helping shape how we go to market globally.
🚀 What You'll Be Doing
- Building clear, differentiated messaging and positioning
- Supporting and delivering go-to-market plans and product launches
- Creating sales enablement tools (pitch decks, battlecards, competitor insights)
- Partnering closely with Sales teams to improve conversion and win rates
- Analysing competitors, market trends, and customer insights
- Supporting campaigns that drive measurable commercial outcomes
- Translating complex product or regulatory topics into simple, impactful messaging
🎯 What We’re Looking For
This role suits a strong, hands-on Product Marketer who is confident operating in a fast-paced, commercial environment.
You’ll bring:
- A background in Product Marketing within a B2B technology or SaaS business
- Proven ability as a clear, confident communicator - able to influence stakeholders across Sales, Product, and Marketing
- Experience working across multiple teams and projects simultaneously, with the ability to prioritise and deliver at pace
- Strong go-to-market and messaging skills, with a focus on what drives pipeline and revenue
- A commercial mindset - you understand how marketing supports sales outcomes, not just activity
- The ability to take complex products or topics and turn them into simple, compelling value propositions
You’ll be comfortable:
- Working in high-growth or private equity-backed environments, where pace and expectations are high
- Operating without constant direction - taking ownership and driving outcomes
- Influencing decisions without direct authority
Bonus (not essential):
- Experience as a subject matter expert (SME) in your domain
- Exposure to HCM, Payroll, or Accountancy software
- Experience working across multi-product or global organisations
📈 What You’ll Gain
- A role with real commercial impact - not just activity, but outcomes
- Exposure to senior stakeholders across Product, Sales, and Marketing
- The opportunity to shape how products are taken to market globally
- A fast-growing environment with clear progression opportunities
- A supportive team that values ideas, ownership, and collaboration
🧩 Our Application Process
We like to keep things simple, transparent, and fair:
1️⃣ Apply online
Just upload your CV and tell us why you’re interested in the role.
2️⃣ Initial Interview (plus Online Assessments)
- A chat with our Talent team.
- Two short assessments:
- CCAT (15-minute timed test).
- EPP (untimed personality questionnaire).
3️⃣ Hiring Manager interview
Focused on your experience, approach, and commercial thinking.
4️⃣ Interview with Product Marketing Team
A deeper dive with the relevant HCM or Accountancy Product Marketing teams.
5️⃣ Final interview
A final conversation with senior HCM or Accountancy stakeholders.
If you’re looking for a role where you can combine strategy, messaging, and commercial impact - and see the direct results of your work - this is a strong opportunity to take the next step in your career.
About IRIS
As one of the UK’s largest privately held software companies, IRIS Software Group exists to simplify the lives of businesses, schools and organisations.
IRIS provides software solutions and services that substantially enhance operational compliance, efficiency and accuracy, empowering the users of our technology to look forward with certainty and confidence.
Over 4 million parents use our software to connect with their child’s school, 18% of UK employees are paid via an IRIS payroll solution, 50,000 SMEs use IRIS cloud bookkeeping and 21,000 firms rely on us for legislative compliance.
Our operational software is the invisible but essential beating heart of our customers’ businesses, supporting them in a range of objectives, from maintaining legislative compliance to boosting engagement with stakeholders and enhancing productivity.
It’s vital these mission-critical functions work first time, every time.
That’s why IRIS helps businesses run the tough stuff, stay compliant and get operational tasks done right first time, every time – so they can focus on productivity and growth.
IRIS is a company built on hiring the best people; our people are our greatest assets.
They enable us to be the innovative, market-leading, and high-performing company that we are today.
We’re delighted to be certified as a Great Place to Work and one of the UK’s Best Workplaces for Women.
These accolades confirm that our employees have a consistently positive experience at IRIS, with the certifications considering employee wellbeing, diversity and inclusion, trust in management, effective communication and recognition/reward.
IRIS is committed to engaging, rewarding and empowering our employees, and this is central to what we do.
This is why we work to create an environment where employees feel like they are part of a team.
Why work for IRIS?
The Benefits
Developing your career
We believe in creating a culture of engagement and reward to develop your potential and offer long-term career success. We do this by:
Supporting our managers to be great leaders, providing inspirational management resources and offering dedicated management development training.
Rewarding individual excellence through dedicated initiatives and Employee Awards for demonstrating our values.
Offering regular training and development programmes tailored to each employee’s development needs and providing a commitment to a ‘learning culture’ which shares knowledge, best practice and our long-standing expertise between employees.
We’re committed to a culture of continuous improvement and listen to our employees via regular feedback sessions and employee engagement surveys.
Our employees love the colleagues they work with. We promote a positive environment where our people feel comfortable, make friends and support each other.
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