Technical Sr. Product Manager

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About the Team

The Workday Extend Product Management team at Workday drives the product and strategy for Workday's secret sauce - our technology platform that was designed from scratch for the cloud. We are growing at a fast pace, and we're looking for folks with a strategic vision and a proven track record for successfully getting sought-after products to market. Product managers at Workday are involved in all aspects of the product management life cycle. They design great new features to delight our customers, evangelize the enhancements to both internal and external customers, all while sweating out the details to deliver a superior end product

About the Role

Does the challenge of defining enterprise-class technology in the era of cloud computing appeal to you? Do you want to explore this challenge for a fast-growing company that is a leader in the SaaS market?

Workday Extend is an embedded platform as a service (PaaS) offering that allows developers to build and extend enterprise applications and integrations on top of the Workday platform. In this role, you would be a product manager for critical backend infrastructure services:

• Collaborate with Workday's customers, partners, development teams including architecture, consultants, operations, and product teams to understand their requirements and priorities

• Work closely with the development organization through design, development, testing, release, and maintenance of the product to ensure its quality and successful delivery on-time

• Define a product roadmap and determine requirements for each release based on user requirements, technical architecture, and business needs
• Guide the product teams towards high value OKRs
• Handle education and adoption of platform features by internal development teams
• Coordinate and align requirements across multiple scrum teams operating in a sophisticated distributed software environment
• Lead technical discussions with customers

About You

Basic Qualifications

• 8+ years working in building platforms for developers as a engineer and/or product manager
• 5+ years of software experience
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or other technical major required
• Experience working cross functionally with multiple technical and product teams

Other Qualifications

• Ability to break down complexity, clearly articulate product requirements, and prioritize enhancement requests
• Excellent analytical abilities, including exploration, research, and measurement, and monitoring
• Excellent organizational, collaboration and communication skills
• Strong self-motivation, problem solving, and execution skills
• Experience working with both SOAP and REST APIs
• Experience with microservices, distributed systems, and fault-tolerant systems
• Experience with multi-datacenter, cloud native architecture (Docker, Kubernetes, Istio, Helm, Envoy), database and AWS technologies
• Experience working within a PaaS vendor in a product capacity
• Experience with embedded PaaS products and tools
• Experience with Software as a Service (SaaS) and Continuous Delivery
• Experience in a fast-paced work environment
• Experience with true ownership and accountability for growing a product area
• Enjoyment of your craft - you want to learn and grow with other Product Managers.

Our Approach to Flexible Work

With Flex Work, we're combining the best of both worlds: in-person time and remote. Our approach enables our teams to deepen connections, maintain a strong community, and do their best work. We know that flexibility can take shape in many ways, so rather than a number of required days in-office each week, we simply spend at least half (50%) of our time each quarter in the office or in the field with our customers, prospects, and partners (depending on role). This means you'll have the freedom to create a flexible schedule that caters to your business, team, and personal needs, while being intentional to make the most of time spent together. Those in our remote "home office" roles also have the opportunity to come together in our offices for important moments that matter.

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