Workday Product Owner

**Hiring Workday Product Owner**:
**Purpose of the Role**

The **Product Owner** role is focused on ensuring that the HR technology products and solutions align with the strategic goals and is responsible for translating stakeholder needs into a well-defined and prioritized product backlog.

Product owner acts as the conduit between Business Stakeholders, System Development Teams, and Product providers, and owns the product to drive its success globally.

**Key Responsibilities**

**HR Systems Product Ownership**:

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

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

**Risks and Audits**
- First point of contact for any product related risks identified.
- Support and work closely with Service Delivery teams to resolve any Product related issues/escalations.
- Act as a point of escalation to resolve Product related issues with Providers.
- Ensure continuous risk mitigation and process improvement.

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

**Required Skills and Experience**:
Industry:
IT/Computers-Software

Role:
Workday Product Owner

key Skills:
Workday, Workday Product Owner, Business Analyst, Agile, Scrum, Stakeholder Management, HRIS, HRIT, Product backlog, Workday functional expert, PMP, CSM, SAFe

Education:
B.Sc/B.Com/M.Sc/MCA/B.E/B.Tech