Senior Product Manager

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About the Team

Our global Absence Management Product Management team is growing, and we are seeking a Senior Product Manager with a passion for Absence Management, solving problems, and driving product growth.

We are looking for a motivated problem-solver and strong collaborator that is passionate about solving Absence Management specific business problems.

Our Product Management team works closely together and with our peers in Development, Automation, Quality Assurance across the suite of HCM And Workforce Management products that Workday offers.

About the Role

• Collaborate with Workday’s business Product Owners, customers, partners, development teams including architecture, consultants, operations, and product teams to understand their desired business outcomes and priorities.

• Work closely with product development teams for both supporting our customers today, and delivering net-new product advancement through design, development, testing, release, and maintenance of the product to ensure its quality and successful delivery on-time.

• Collaborate with the leadership and the Product Management team to define the product vision, strategy and roadmap, including the underlying technical capabilities.

• Drive solution design for each release based on user requirements, technical architecture, and business outcomes.

• Guide the product teams towards high value objectives and key results.

• Support education and adoption of platform features by internal development teams.

• Coordinate and align solution design across multiple scrum teams operating in a sophisticated distributed software environment.

• Communicate and evangelise the product area among the Workday community and at Workday events.

• Lead technical discussions with key internal and external stakeholders / customers.

About You

Basic Qualifications:

• 8+ years experience in Product Management or Consulting, with strong skills defining, launching, and iterating on impactful SaaS and/or cloud-based enterprise software products.

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline such as Business, Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience.

Other Qualifications:

• Deep Domain Expertise & Customer-Centricity:

  • Demonstrated expertise in Workday Absence Management or Workforce Management products (implementation or administration).

  • Proven ability to be a highly effective Customer Advocate, deeply understanding and representing customer needs in product strategy and decisions, and driving customer-centricity throughout the product lifecycle. This includes a deep understanding of customer empathy, proactively seeking and translating customer problems into impactful product solutions.

  • Strong ability and interest in researching, summarising, and prioritising customer business requirements, coupled with experience working directly with clients in customer-facing situations.
     

• Product Development & Execution Competence:

  • Experience writing detailed software functional design documents and effectively collaborating with development teams throughout the product lifecycle.

  • Solid skills in data analysis to derive actionable insights for product strategy, prioritisation, and measuring success, and effectively communicating data-driven recommendations to stakeholders.

  • Proven ability to lead research efforts to inform product strategy, identify opportunities, and understand user behaviour.

  • Strong skills in production support management, including organising, triaging, and guiding teams through issue resolution, while effectively communicating with and managing expectations of internal and external stakeholders.
     

• Strategic Thinking & Cross-Functional Leadership:

  • Strong ability to work well within and across teams, including leading cross-team collaboration with internal organisations (engineering, documentation, customer support) and external partner ecosystems.

  • Solid decision-making skills in complex and strategic product-related matters, balancing user needs, business goals, and technical feasibility, and effectively communicating those decisions with clear rationale and considering long-term implications.

  • Strong strategic problem solver who contributes to and crafts the long-term vision and direction of the product portfolio and identifying potential strategic opportunities.
     

• Personal Attributes:

  • A fast learner who is meticulous, decisive, highly self-motivated, and thrives in fast-paced, unstructured environments.

  • Excellent analytical, verbal, and written communication skills, with a positive and flexible attitude.

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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