Strategic Workday Product Owner

Job Title: Workday Product Owner

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Workday Product Owner to join our team. As a key member of our organization, you will be responsible for ensuring that our HR technology products and solutions align with our strategic goals.

• Product Vision: Develop and articulate a clear product vision aligned with organizational objectives.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Actively engage with stakeholders, including HRBPs, employees, and leadership, to understand their needs, priorities, and challenges.
• Development Guidance: Guide development efforts to ensure they contribute to the long-term vision and success of the product.
• Communication Facilitation: Facilitate ongoing communication between development teams and stakeholders.
• Product Backlog Management: Maintain a well-defined and prioritized product backlog, based on business value, user feedback, and strategic goals, through tools identified (e.g., JIRA).
• Feature Breakdown: Break down complex features into actionable tasks, understand the associated functional and technical implications, ensuring a clear understanding of development expectations.
• Licensing and Partnerships: Review and own Licensing for the product. Own Partner Service Reviews on a quarterly basis to drive improvement.
• Market Trends and Benchmarking: Review Market trends and benchmark practices.
• Value Maximization: Review and maximize the value addition of annual planned developments, publish on a quarterly basis Feature Adoption Health Scorecard.

• Liaison Role: Liaise on all projects, creating, actively managing, and tracking project initiatives and deliverables.
• Project Support: Working with Project and Service Delivery teams to support Project phase and Business as Usual
• Capacity Planning: Review Capacity vs Project demands for project deliveries planned; Forecast and plan project activities and involvement of the Service Delivery teams.
• Resource Optimization: Work in partnership with the CPO Technology team to optimize resource management.
• Bottleneck Resolution: Actively resolve bottle necks, provide guidance and SME knowledge for project initiatives.
• Progress Updates: Provide regular updates on project progress, address queries, and manage expectations.
• System Transition: Transition system development activities seamlessly to business-as-usual.

• Risk Mitigation: First point of contact for any product-related risks identified.
• Issue Resolution: Support and work closely with Service Delivery teams to resolve any Product-related issues/escalations.
• Escalation Point: Act as a point of escalation to resolve Product-related issues with Providers.
• Process Improvement: Ensure continuous risk mitigation and process improvement.

• Experience: Overall, 10-12 years of experience as Product Owner role or similar in HRIS/HRIT; 5+ Years of demonstrable experience with Workday HCM.
• Qualifications: Minimum bachelors degree in from any stream.
• Methodologies and Certifications: Strong understanding of Agile methodologies and experience with Scrum or Kanban; Certifications such as PMP, CSM, SAFe are a plus.
• Expertise: Extensive expertise in Stakeholder management.
• Skills: Excellent communications and Interpersonal Skills; Ability to address diverse audiences with the right level of complexity, language, and refinement.
• Analytical Skills: Initiative in keeping abreast of changing industry practices, analytical and design methods, system tools and techniques.
• Data Governance: Demonstrated capability to support data governance & protection models.
• Problem-Solving Skills: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills; ability to make data-driven decisions.