Senior Director, Product – Workday Platform, Transformation
Salesforce
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: San Francisco • California, Colorado, New York • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $251,900 - $384,100 per year
Job Level
Senior
About the role
- Lead Workday Platform strategy and architecture across both HCM and Finance modules, ensuring optimal shared platform capabilities
- Define and execute the northstar architecture vision for Finance & Employee Success technology ecosystem
- Drive net-new AI Agent development and implementation to enhance organizational capacity and delivery across Finance & ES systems
- Establish data foundation strategies to enable effective AI agent deployment and autonomous system capabilities
- Partner with internal product teams across the organization to leverage agentic technologies for process transformation
- Work with both the business and team portfolio management to define annual budget requests aligned to roadmaps and goals and manage spend to expectations
- Lead Product Management, Engineering and Operations team to deliver on key business and technology objectives
- Ensure Enterprise Standards and Process are followed by the team and raise exceptions for review in the correct governance frameworks
- Lead major company projects and be accountable for key reporting indicators for those programs accountable to the Vice President of IT Finance & Employee Success
- Demonstrate thought leadership for Portfolio and Product development and optimization with a high focus on accountability and ownership at each level of the organization
- Rally the multi-functional teams that span over multiple time zones and function in a variety of agile methodologies to hold teams and individuals accountable for adhering to standard processes and defined Product and Portfolio
- Hire, develop and retain the best talent in the industry
- Invest in the success of every member of the team, providing opportunities for personal development and career growth
- Collaborate with vendors and industry consultants to continuously learn and identify opportunities to advance our strategy and operating model for supporting our business partners
- Maintain and lead awareness of industry best practices and relevant technologies, particularly in AI/ML and autonomous systems
Requirements
- 10+ years in product management or related experience
- 12+ years of development and/or agile management experience
- Prior experience managing technology in an "operational" setting driving uptime SLAs, reliability and resilience
- Experience managing Profit and Loss and team-specific budgets
- Successfully led and delivered on projects with specific benefits and outcomes achieved
- Agile methodology and/or Scaled Agile
- A related technical degree required
- Workday Platform experience strongly preferred - deep understanding of one or both HCM and Finance modules, platform architecture, and integration capabilities
- Past experience in Finance and/or HR domain with implementing and managing technology solutions across various process areas - P2P (Plan to Perform), R2R (Record to Report), S2P (Source to Pay), SOX
Benefits
- time off programs
- medical
- dental
- vision
- mental health support
- paid parental leave
- life and disability insurance
- 401(k)
- employee stock purchasing program
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Hard skills
Workday PlatformHCM moduleFinance moduleAI Agent developmentdata foundation strategiesagile methodologyScaled AgileProfit and Loss managementbudget managementtechnology solutions implementation
Soft skills
leadershipaccountabilitycollaborationteam developmentthought leadershipprocess transformationorganizational capacity enhancementmulti-functional team managementpersonal development investmentvendor collaboration
Certifications
related technical degree