Senior Director Platform and Strategic Operations

Your work days are brighter here.

At Workday, it all began with a conversation over breakfast. When our founders met at a sunny California diner, they came up with an idea to revolutionize the enterprise software market. And when we began to rise, one thing that really set us apart was our culture. A culture which was driven by our value of putting our people first. And ever since, the happiness, development, and contribution of every Workmate is central to who we are. Our Workmates believe a healthy employee-centric, collaborative culture is the essential mix of ingredients for success in business. That’s why we look after our people, communities and the planet while still being profitable. Feel encouraged to shine, however that manifests: you don’t need to hide who you are. You can feel the energy and the passion, it's what makes us unique. Inspired to make a brighter work day for all and transform with us to the next stage of our growth journey? Bring your brightest version of you and have a brighter work day here.

About the Team

Workday IT exists to create technology experiences that empower the Workday Community to innovate and win. Our Workday platform is built for the future and proven in the cloud. This translates into the way we approach our internal IT solutions – with a cloud first approach, driving business value, enabling growth and scale, with agility and flexibility in mind.

About the Role

The Senior Director, GTM applications is the IT leader with accountability for the applications that support Workday’s Go to Market organizations supporting Platform availability, reliability, and performance along with critical responsibilities driving Platform Security, Internal Application Controls and Merger and Acquisition efforts. The accomplished leader will drive current and future IT SFDC platform org strategy including Standardization, Tech debt reduction, Systems Integrations, Data Migration, capability development in areas of whitespaces, transition to operations. To meet the company’s financial and strategic business objectives, this leader builds trusted relationships with business leaders and teams that result in aligned focus on delivering outcomes and experiences. This focus will be supported by a clear technology and information strategy, prioritized plans, focused execution and predictable, competent delivery of day-to-day technology and information services. Does this interest you? If yes, give us a shout!

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Provide Technical leadership and mentorship for direct functional area and contributing to the overall GTM team leadership
• Collaborates across peers group to help drive organizational improvements and operational excellence
• Builds a high-performance technical product team that can effectively execute and deliver
• Align as a trusted advisor and strategic team member in order to understand business unit challenges and assist to strategically plan future business capabilities that require technology assistance.
• Build a clear platform roadmap including new capability authorization, service maturity achievements, inter-dependency mapping, value articulation, user adoption targets, and re-use goals.
• Collaborate with architecture and operations teams to ensure solution compatibility with company standards.
• Collaborate with the Project Management Office on the intake process and prioritization of candidate investments across the company.
• Manages to defined budget by optimizing spend to increase value.  Maintains constant understanding of spend.
• Optimize the cost of the platform, including resource planning, budget and cost analysis, partner and vendor negotiations.
• Stays abreast of business, leadership and technology trends and has a demonstrated track record of influencing others to successfully address challenging business problems by applying new ideas and lessons learned.
• Works collaboratively with counterparts in other GTM functions (i.e. Platform, Marketing, Sales, Support and Services )

About You

Basic Qualifications

• 15 years of direct and related experience with Go-To-Market functional areas
• 10 years of experience as a people leader, leading teams, projects, programs or advising the allocation of resources
• 7 + yrs leading Agile SCRUM teams for the delivery of Salesforce and other technology projects and improvements on an ambitious schedule.
• Experience with the GTM applications and Salesforce.com environment
• Extensive background in IT with previous experience in leading M&A activities, preferably with a high-tech company.

Other Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science or MBA or equivalent preferred.
• Proven strategic planning, critical thinking and influence skills