Senior Product Manager- Workday Payroll

The Home Depot•GEORGIA - VIRTUAL - GA01, GA

4d•Onsite

About The Position

We're seeking a Senior Product Manager to lead the strategic vision for Home Depot's payroll technology ecosystem, a core pillar of modernizing HR and delivering an accurate, frictionless pay experience for associates across the enterprise. You'll drive two key priorities: 1) Setting the roadmap for Workday Payroll to scale with evolving business, compliance, and associate needs, and 2) Leading custom applications that extend Workday Payroll to close functional gaps, mature pay practices, and streamline adjacent workflows. The ideal candidate is a strategic product leader who can design end-to-end solutions across a complex HR/payroll landscape, navigate cross-functional complexity and manage through ambiguity to create clarity.

Requirements

Must be eighteen years of age or older.
Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.
3 or more years of experience with Workday or other large-scale enterprise HRIS systems
Experience working as a Product Manager in a modern software development-based enterprise environment
Experience with modern software development product management practices and agile methodologies, specifically the extreme programming (XP) principles of paired programming, test driven development, and continuous deployment
Proficiency in communicating with and influencing functional and technical team members at all levels in the organization
Proficiency in working as part of a collaborative, cross-functional, modern software design and development team
Proficiency in creating actionable product roadmaps
Proficiency in creating well-articulated and clear product requirement documents (PRDs)
Proficiency in prioritizing backlogs to maximize value
Proficiency in conducting discovery, user research, and testing to understand needs, particularly across HR,
Proficiency in identifying goals, metrics and analytics to measure product value
Proficiency in conducting competitive research and analysis on payroll and HR technology solutions
Understanding of payroll compliance, tax, and regulatory requirements across multiple jurisdictions
Experience guiding more junior team members through Product Management fundamentals in a professional setting
The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a bachelor's degree program or equivalent degree in a field of study related to the job.
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Responsibilities

Seeks to empathize with and understand the end user deeply and use that knowledge to determine the fastest path to deliver value
Translates business goals and end user needs into product strategy; communicates direction and product priorities to the development team, other matrixed teams, and third-party partners
Identifies goals, metrics and analytics to determine product value; continually makes recommendations and refinements to the product backlog based on learnings
Manages and grooms the product backlog; makes future decisions based on the value that will be delivered
Partners with Finance to understand financial needs and assist in the creation of business plans for new opportunities
Monitors research as well as the competitive landscape to recommend the best solutions and ensure that products remain or become best in class
Ensures that product directions balance both the user needs and business goals of driving sales, improving efficiency and enhancing customer satisfaction
Formulates, tests and refines assumptions and hypotheses through user research and testing
Documents, reviews and ensures that all quality and change control standards are met
Creates, prioritizes and accepts user stories; incorporate them into release planning
Makes product decisions that drive value on a daily basis
Identifies and considers pros, cons, issues, obstacles, dependencies and value associated with features and enhancements
Participates in standups, iteration planning sessions, product demo, and retrospectives
Condenses complex technical concepts into non-technical language for stakeholders
Fosters collaboration with team members (Engineering, UX, etc.) to drive value and identify and resolve impediments
Acts as a proponent of modern software development practices
Advocates for the end user and stakeholder by becoming associated with the product, empathizing with and understanding user needs
Works with the product team to continuously assess progress, disseminate lessons learned, and understand next steps
Manages cross functional team and stakeholder expectations to execute on product strategy and provides education to requestors to determine prioritization based on tangible benefits and/or user experience
Guides more junior team members in strategy, alignment, analysis and execution tasks
Participates in and contributes to learning activities around modern software design and development core practices (communities of practice)
Participates in talent acquisition, development and retention activities in support of team