IT Product Manager, Workday (HCM)

Salesforce • Indianapolis, IN

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About The Position

Digital Enterprise Technology is looking for an experienced Workday Product Manager with an extensive background in building scalable and innovative solutions for human resources. This role will join the product group dedicated to supporting the Global Employee Success (HR) team here at Salesforce. Our ideal candidate enjoys working in dynamic and high-growth environment and is experienced in managing complex projects and teams in support of an overall Talent and Recruiting philosophy and strategy. We are looking for candidates with deep expertise with business analysis and Workday HCM, Position Management, Security and touchpoints into other key modules like Workday Financials, Total Rewards and Recruiting.

Requirements

• 5+ years of configuration and or implementation experience with Workday modules. HCM and Security preferred.
• Proven experience with process improvement or transformation.
• Must have the ability to make decisions and recommendations on technology strategies.
• Business Analysis skills including requirements gathering and guiding customers from idea to delivery.
• Excellent spoken and written communication as well as receptive listening skills.
• Ability to present complex ideas in a clear, concise fashion to non-technical audiences.
• Demonstrated success as a team player able to work with virtual and global cross functional teams.
• Excellent interpersonal skills necessary to influence cross-functional stakeholders and negotiation skills.
• Demonstrated knowledge of project management concepts and techniques required.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with Agile/SCRUM techniques.
• Workday HCM Certification.
• Experience with Workday Security.
• Knowledge of Enterprise applications/modules: HCM preferred.
• Knowledge of Workday cross-functional touchpoints between HCM and Financials.
• Experience with touchpoints to enterprise data hub and warehouse(EDH/EDW) preferred.
• Knowledge of web and cloud applications.
• Excellent, creative problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Develops and drives the delivery of current and future state product roadmap incorporating projects, features and other key initiatives that synthesizes the needs of business customers over the long and short term while managing delivery expectations.
• Serves as the team's primary contact to their business partner(s).
• Effectively reviews vision with business partners to align on objectives around prioritization, time to market, effort and scope.
• Responsible for delivery to plan, and basic problem resolution.
• Manages and communicates tradeoff decisions between scope and schedule.
• Communicates all aspects of the project with the customer and delivery teams.
• Identifies business themes and industry trends and can influence customer vision at the product level.
• Drives feature assessment and uptake.
• Owns the planning of work into sprints, assignment and delivery of the product backlog by defining user stories and acceptance criteria that represents the vision provided by the business.
• Ensure solutions promote simplification, scalability, accuracy and an increasingly higher level of productivity for users.
• Review technical solutions for compliance to business processes and objectives, as well as IT standards.
• Translates key business needs into functional and technical requirements and specifications.

Benefits

• time off programs
• medical, dental, vision
• mental health support
• paid parental leave
• life and disability insurance
• 401(k)
• employee stock purchasing program

What This Job Offers

• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees