Director, IT Operations

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About the Team

The IT Service Management and Operations team is the cornerstone of business operations at Workday. This team defines, develops, and maintains critical capabilities to enable all IT and business teams to deliver outstanding internal IT services to Workday teams and customers. This includes responsibility for platforms like ServiceNow, Jira, and Confluence to enable effective agile development and support resilient IT Operations. The team is highly skilled, innovative, and strives to constantly improve efficiency by automating and streamlining operations, reducing manual effort, and developing intuitive, scalable solutions.

About the Role

As the Director of IT Operations, you will be responsible for establishing and enforcing business application support standards across the organization and driving the adoption of ITSM practices to deliver operational excellence and maximize the value of the ITSM platform. You will champion the evolution of service delivery, ensuring all IT services are aligned with business needs and that all support activities adhere to established best practices and compliance requirements.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement comprehensive application management policies and procedures to optimize service delivery and drive operational excellence.

• Champion the adoption of ITSM processes across all enterprise business applications to ensure consistency, reliability, and security.

• Define, own, and report on key metrics to track and communicate progress toward increasing efficiency, service maturity, and resilience.

• Engage with business and IT leaders to align priorities, evangelize ITSM capabilities, and ensure high levels of service delivery and customer satisfaction.

• Partner with the ITSM technical team to implement process improvements.

• Manage relationships with external service providers and vendors to ensure continuous improvement of service quality in a cost-effective manner.

• Partner with audit and compliance teams to track, report on, and ensure process adherence for all critical IT operations, maintaining an audit-ready posture.

About You

Basic Qualifications

• 8+ years of leadership experience in IT Operations or Business Application Service Delivery in a large global organization.

• 8+ years of experience leading globally distributed teams that support a 24x7 operations model.

• 15+ years of technical experience in IT Operations, Service Delivery, or similar technology management roles.

Other Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience leading the transformation of IT Operations practices, processes, and capabilities over time in a large-scale environment.

• Strong understanding of ITSM practices and the ability to articulate implementation strategies.

• Proven ability to develop, gain alignment to, and implement a strategic roadmap in a cross-functional organization.

• Excellent organizational and collaboration skills with the ability to navigate changing priorities and manage multiple projects simultaneously.

• Excellent verbal and written communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to articulate technical solutions to a variety of audiences and across multiple levels of the organization.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills. 

• Strong focus on delivering exceptional user experiences through technology.

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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