Sr. Director Product Management, Payroll

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About the Team

At Workday, we help the world’s largest organizations adapt to what’s next by bringing finance, HR, and planning into a single enterprise cloud. We work hard, and we’re serious about what we do. But we like to have fun, too. We put people first, celebrate diversity, drive innovation, and do good in the communities where we live and work.

Our Payroll Product Management team is growing, and we are looking for an experienced Product leader to guide global teams of passionate Product Managers across our portfolio of Payroll products. We are crafting the future of Payroll leveraging AI with an emphasis on Agents. We build our Payroll solution using modern technologies, providing an unparalleled level of agility, ease-of-use, and delivery of insights. We are passionate about innovation and not only demonstrate this in our technology and tools, but also in how we work.

About the Role

This role reports directly to the VP, Payroll Product Management and has Product leadership responsibility for a subset of the overall Payroll Product portfolio. We are looking for someone who is passionate about building modern Payroll experiences that help businesses empower workers, optimize efficiency and stay in compliance.

This position is based in our Atlanta, GA office.  This is a unique opportunity to be part of an innovative and fun team that loves building the next generation of Payroll experiences for our customers.

In this role, you will:

• Empower others: Foster the growth of an inclusive, high-performing team and promote a culture that encourages individual decision-making and innovation.

• Own the Product Lifecycle: Influence and drive vision for the Payroll product using domain expertise, internal and external best practices, market research, Workday’s company strategy, and customer insight. Transform strategy into roadmap and drive design and capability delivery on highest impact areas for customers to execute on their talent optimization strategies. Work with Engineering to manage the release process and tightly integrate and balance functionality and feasibility.

• Cross-functional collaboration:  Collaborate with internal cross-functional product partners to deliver persona focused solutions that transform the Payroll experience.

• Be a customer advocate: Foster innovation in the customer experience by combining functional and operational knowledge in the Payroll domain. Engage customers and users to determine business requirements, technical considerations and strategic objectives, as well as provide recommendations based on your industry and product experience.

• Be a product evangelist: Collaborate and communicate across the Workday eco-system including Sales, Marketing, Services and other Product teams to promote your products both internally and externally as well as ensure a cohesive message. Build trust through transparency and collaboration.

About You

Basic Qualifications

• 10+ years in product management

• 5+ years experience leading teams of 3+ people

• 5+ years in a Director level rol