About the Team

The Business Process Platform team focuses on building products that help move, orchestrate, and automate key processes for enterprise data and people. You’ll be guiding the efforts of a development team that builds our core business process framework that is Workday's bread and butter.

The products built by this team touch every single application in Workday. If you love complex technical challenges this position is for you. You will collaborate across many application teams to drive how to build and extend the framework.

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Through our Career Returner program, we provide on-the-job training, mentorship, professional development and a pathway to full time careers for job seekers as they relaunch their careers back into the workforce. This is an immersive 16-week paid program where you’ll make an impact at Workday by engaging in meaningful work, have access to many career growth and skill building opportunities; including networking, training, and ongoing professional development. At the end of the program, participants may also be offered full-time employment by Workday.

To be eligible for the Career Returner program, candidates must have a minimum of three years of prior work experience and a break from their career for at least one and a half years.

About the Role

Product Managers at Workday are involved in all aspects of the product management lifecycle. They design great new features to delight customers, evangelize the enhancements to both internal and external stakeholders, all while sweating out the details to deliver a superior end product. Senior Product Managers at Frameworks do this on a regular basis:

• Influences the product roadmap and sets the long-term strategy for multiple product areas.

• Leads through influence and applies strategic understanding of the company's big picture and competitive landscape, and how to accurately position product in the marketplace.

• Collaborate with Workday's customers, development, services and sales teams to understand their requirements

• Often starts with a blank sheet of paper and has a deep understanding of product usage and adoption.

• Write detailed feature specifications based on requirements

• Handle implementation of new capabilities by coordinating with internal Product teams impacted by those capabilities.

• Communicate new capabilities to customers clearly

• Work with the development organization through design, testing and product release

• Drive efficiency and productivity for the scrum teams using processes and Atlassian tools.

• Define a product roadmap and determine requirements for each release

• Participate in customer-facing situations and user conferences as a product expert

• Demonstrate flexibility and the ability to adapt to change.

• Drive cross team initiatives and influence other teams on directions and decision making.

About You

Basic Qualifications

• 3+ years of product management experience

• 2+ years of product owner experience or working closely with product manager to translate customer and market needs into product deliverables and release support through the entire product life cycle

• Must be available to start in May 2022

Other Qualifications

• Strong individual initiative & ownership – driven by results, and motivated by impact

• At heart, is a “product person” – dedication and drive to understand customer needs, and build great products & solutions to meet those needs

• Steadfast focus on user-centric design, data, research, and well-honed judgment to ensure you’re passionate about making the biggest difference to our users

• Proven track record to operate successfully across multiple functions, influence senior executives and peers alike, and mediate across various stakeholders

• Exceptional communication and presentation abilities, both written and verbal

• Experience with workflow and/or automation technologies

To be eligible for the Career Returner program, candidates must have a minimum of three years of prior work experience and a break from their career for at least one and a half years.