Director, Product Compliance (US Federal)

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About the Team

Come join Workday! As part of the Product & Compliance team dedicated to our Government Industry Vertical within the Product & Technology Organization, you will play a crucial role in driving our growth strategy within this key market. Our mission is to accelerate the adoption and success of Workday solutions within government agencies by encouraging seamless teamwork across product development, compliance, and go-to-market teams.

The charter includes compliance with Federal security standards (e.g. Fedramp - IL2/IL4, Secret, Top Secret) in addition to ensuring coverage of Federal OPM mandates and specific requirements across Payroll, Benefits, Workforce Management, Financials required to power the Federal Government etc. The goal is to have both a near term view and a long term view of the business while monitoring evolutions in the Federal business landscape.

About the Role

Workday is seeking a highly motivated and proactive Security and Compliance leader to join our dedicated Product & Compliance team within the Government Industry Vertical. In this crucial role, you will serve as a key partner to our product teams (HCM and Financials), expertly navigating compliance requirements (e.g. FedRAMP, IL4, IL5, Secret, Top Secret, etc.) with a deep understanding of NIST 800-53, as well as building and managing a team of product compliance experts.

Key Responsibilities:

• Team Management & Leadership: Hire, manage, mentor, and grow a team of compliance professionals, fostering a culture of continuous learning and accountability to ensure all security and compliance objectives are met efficiently.

• Security Engineering: Work with engineering teams to ensure that systems are architected, implemented and operate in compliance with relevant security standards including FedRAMP/FISMA High, DoD IL-4/5, NIST 800-53 R5, ISO 27000 and others. 

• Compliance Engineering: Establish baseline engineering requirements for compliance to build secure solutions for Government Cloud environments.

• Risk & Audit Management: Establish Risk Management strategy, coordinating with external assessors and advisory firms that provide security audits and risk assessments. Supervise mitigation plans, ensuring timely remediation of risks.

• GRC Oversight: Establish and govern a common controls strategy to ensure security and compliance across Workday’s environments with relevant internal and external security frameworks.

• Collaborator Collaboration: Partner with cross-functional teams, including product security, engineering, legal, and external regulatory bodies, to align compliance initiatives with business objectives.

• Build and Maintain External Partnerships: Maintain and lead partnerships with customer US Federal Government agencies and the FedRAMP PMO, staying atop of all industry updates and changes to the program.

• Process Optimization: Drive efficiencies in compliance ass