Senior Technical Product Manager

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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.

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About the Team

Security is of the utmost importance for customers migrating to the cloud. The Security Product Management team at Workday defines the strategy for security features and functionality to scale and strengthen our security platform to support all Workday customers with a rich feature set and controls for access control management solutions and ensuring trust among internal systems. We’re growing at a fast pace and are looking for folks with a strategic vision and a consistent track record for successfully delivering sought-after products to market.

About the Role

Our Workday Platform Security team is at the forefront of revolutionizing how we manage and secure data for both Workday services and our global customer base. Using ground breaking technologies, we're building scalable platforms and services that fuel Workday's growth while maintaining unwavering protection of our data and infrastructure. 

Joining our team means directly giving to the development and support of enterprise-grade security tools vital to our strategy. If you're driven by a passion for safeguarding millions of customers' data and eager to implement security solutions at scale, this is your opportunity to be part of a top-priority initiative with significant customer demand. You will be responsible for the design and execution of products in this area.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with Workday's Senior leadership, Customers, Product Management, and Development teams to develop requirements that drive the overall platform security strategy and roadmap.

• Represent the customer (both internal and external) and be data-driven when evaluating development decisions with engineering teams through design, testing and product/feature release.

• Identifying platform solutions or improvements to help tackle customer problems or feedback. Own feature design documents to ensure multiple teams use the solutions.

• Maintain and support go-to-market (e.g. sales, field readiness, customers, marketing etc.) for Bring-Your-Own-Key SKU.

• Gather, prioritize, and define requirements (while actively grooming backlog) into executable epics and user stories for engineering.

• Build and maintain a prioritized backlog of epics, user stories, and acceptance criteria, based on key collaborator requirements, and persona and use case development.

About You

Basic qualifications

• 8+ years working in building platforms for developers as a product manager.

• 5+ years of software experience.

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Engineering, or other technical major required.

• Ability to influence, lead, and collaborate across multiple technical and product teams in a matrixed environment.

• Ability to clearly prioritize and articulate business value and product requirements, as well as develop a vision and strategy for area of ownership.