Business Systems Analyst Prin

Dayforce

2d•$101,500 - $181,300•Remote

About The Position

The Principal Product Owner supports the end-to-end product strategy, roadmap, and delivery across applications within the Business Systems landscape. This role partners senior business and technology leaders to align business priorities with the product strategy and drives the successful execution of large, complex, cross functional initiatives. This role serves as the product authority across systems and capabilities, ensuring solutions are scalable, integrated, and aligned to enterprise standards, while delivering measurable business outcomes. In addition to business applications, this role drives the strategy for AI enabled capabilities across the Business Systems landscape, ensuring adoption of scalable, governed solutions that deliver measurable business impact. This role also ensures that product strategy, architecture, and delivery align with FedRAMP requirements, supporting the design, implementation, and ongoing compliance of secure, regulated cloud environments.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Technology, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience
10+ years of experience in Product Ownership, Product Management, or related roles within enterprise environments
Proven experience owning product strategy and delivery across multiple systems or a product domain
Strong understanding of enterprise business systems, including customer operations, case management, and CRM platforms
Demonstrated experience leading large scale, complex, cross functional initiatives
Proven experience defining and implementing AI or automation solutions within enterprise systems, with demonstrated business impact
Strong understanding of AI and data driven product capabilities, including practical applications and limitations in enterprise environments
Strong understanding of system integrations, data models, and enterprise application architecture
Demonstrated ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive decision making
Experience operating in Agile delivery environments

Nice To Haves

Strong strategic thinking, with the ability to connect business objectives to product strategy and execution
Deep understanding of product management principles and lifecycle management
Strong system level thinking across multiple platforms and business processes
Executive level communication and stakeholder management skills
Ability to lead through influence across multiple teams without direct authority
Strong decision-making skills in ambiguous and fast paced environments
Ability to define and measure business outcomes and use data to drive decisions
Strong collaboration skills across business and technical teams
Ability to prioritize and manage work across multiple initiatives and stakeholders

Responsibilities

Ensure product strategy, architecture, and delivery align with FedRAMP security and compliance requirements
Partner with security, compliance, and engineering teams to support FedRAMP authorization, audits, and continuous monitoring activities
Embed security and compliance considerations into product design, prioritization, and delivery processes
Drive adoption of compliant, secure, and scalable solutions that meet federal and regulated customer requirements
Own and drive product strategy and roadmap across essential applications within the Business Systems landscape
Translate business strategy into scalable product capabilities and aligned system roadmaps
Partners with senior business and technology stakeholders to shape demand, define priorities, and influence investment decisions
Drive delivery of complex, multi-system product initiatives
Ensure alignment and integration across systems, enabling end-to-end process optimization and consistent user experience
Identify cross system dependencies, risks, and constraints, and proactively define mitigation strategies
Establish and enforce product management standards, governance, and best practices across teams
Oversee prioritization across multiple backlogs, ensuring alignment to strategic outcomes and enterprise priorities
Evaluate tradeoffs across initiatives, balancing speed, cost, risk, and long-term scalability
Define and track measurable business outcomes, including operational efficiency, customer experience, and cost optimization
Define and drive the strategy for AI and automation capabilities across the Business Systems landscape, prioritizing high impact use cases that improve efficiency, decision making, and user experience
Serve as the escalation point for complex or high impact product decisions requiring cross functional alignment
Present product strategies, roadmaps, tradeoffs, and outcomes to senior leadership to support decision making
Drive adoption and optimization of product capabilities to maximize business value
Continuously identify opportunities to improve systems, processes, and ways of working across the organization
Mentor and guide product owners and analysts, elevating product management maturity across teams