Senior Manager, Product Lead - Workday

Job Summary

The Senior Manager - Product Lead, is responsible for defining and executing the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for a portfolio of digital products and platforms. This role partners closely with business, technology, design, data, and operations leaders to deliver high‑impact, customer‑centric solutions that drive measurable business outcomes.

The Product Lead core responsibilities include:

• Product Strategy & roadmap

• Product delivery & execution

• Operational Excellence

• Stakeholder Engagement

• Vendor & Risk Management

• Subject Matter Expertise in HR Technology Domain

At Otsuka, we defy limitation, so that others can too.

We have an unwavering belief in doing more. In transcending expectations. In going above and beyond—under any circumstances—for patients, families, providers, and for each other. It’s this deep-rooted dedication that drives us to uncover answers to complex, underserved medical needs, so that patients can push past the limitations of their disease and achieve more than they thought was possible each and every day.

We believe that the bigger the challenge, the bigger the opportunity. We are doing everything in our power to live up to our mission of creating new products for better health worldwide in two important therapeutic categories: neuroscience and nephrology.

Job Description

The Senior Manager role will drive the operational and program delivery support across technology initiatives and solutions within their platform area. The position will be responsible for overseeing and contributing to the technical execution of the roadmap as well as maintaining and enhancing the existing productions solution in their platform domain.

Core Responsibilities include but not limited to the following:

Solution/Application Architecture:

• Own the technical solution design for assigned Workday functional and technical areas. 

• Lead architecture and design workshops and translate business requirements into scalable, automated Workday solutions. 

• Oversee and guide technical design patterns across Workday tools

• Define and maintain architecture decision records, promoting reusability, standardization, and long‑term scalability. 

• Provide oversight to the Workday Identity & Access Management (IAM) framework, ensuring secure and compliant role and domain structures. 

• Drive release impact analysis, identifying cross‑module, integration, and security implications for each Workday update. 

• Validate solutions through testing strategy contributions, including scenario design, regression coverage, and integration-specific validation. 

• Actively partner with HRIS, technical teams, and functional stakeholders to identify and deliver Workday‑based integration opportunities and automation improvements. 

Application Ownership:

• Support the full application lifecycle and roadmap for Workday, helping to reduce technical debt and maximize modernization opportunities. 

• Own user-based security and compliance, including oversight of integration system user accounts, roles, access controls, and audit evidence. 

• Oversee Workday system stability, health, and performance, coordinating with infrastructure and integration teams to resolve systemic issues. 

• Ensure that Workday integrations, configuration, and security adhere to compliance requirements and remain audit-ready. 

• Maintain system documentation and knowledge repositories including: integration inventory, security policies, configuration rationale and architecture decisions 

• Make risk‑based decisions on high‑impact changes, ensuring appropriate quality controls, testing rigor, approval workflows, and rollback procedures are in place. 

Business System Management:

• Participate in Workday demand intake, contributing to backlog prioritization and emerging solution evaluation. 

• Support and influence Workday governance, including design authorities, decision forums, architecture reviews, and change controls. 

• Coordinate delivery execution by partnering with the IT PMO to:  plan sprints, track milestones, align cross-functional stakeholders and manage dependencies in an agile delivery environment 

• Lead release management activities for biannual Workday updates, ensuring proactive evaluation and adoption of new features—inclu