Senior Product Owner, Workday Financial Systems

Rocket Companies•Remote - Michigan, MI

5d•$102,000 - $216,500

About The Position

The Senior Product Owner is responsible for planning, coordinating, and driving the successful delivery of Workday Finance integration initiatives. The role partners with engineering, business stakeholders, and leadership to manage priorities, define requirements, coordinate and assist with testing, and ensure timely, high-quality delivery. It requires strong ownership, proactive communication, attention to detail, a solution-architect mindset, and the ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced environment. The role owns and maintains a prioritized, organized, development-ready engineering backlog; gathers requirements and defines acceptance criteria with business stakeholders; and drives delivery planning, timelines, milestones, and cross-functional dependencies. It monitors progress, identifies risks, escalates blockers with recommended solutions, facilitates backlog refinement and priority sessions, and develops and executes functional test cases for integration changes. The Product Owner ensures changes meet business expectations and quality standards before production release, communicates project status and risks, maintains work tracking in Azure DevOps and ServiceNow, and identifies opportunities to improve delivery processes, testing practices, and team efficiency.

Requirements

3–4 years of experience in Delivery Management and/or Product Ownership.
Familiarity with Workday integrations and Finance and Accounting processes.
Experience with functional testing.
Strong understanding of backlog management, requirements gathering, and software delivery lifecycle processes.
Experience using Azure DevOps, ServiceNow, or similar project management tools.
Excellent organizational, communication, time management, stakeholder management, and problem-solving skills.
Demonstrated ability to manage competing priorities, anticipate risks, and drive high-quality results across cross-functional teams.
Experience leading stakeholder meetings and building relationships.

Responsibilities

Own and maintain a prioritized, organized, development-ready engineering backlog.
Partner with business stakeholders to gather requirements, define acceptance criteria, and align priorities with business objectives.
Drive delivery planning, timelines, milestones, and cross-functional dependencies.
Monitor progress, proactively identify risks, and escalate blockers with recommended solutions.
Facilitate backlog refinement with engineers and backlog priority sessions with business partners.
Develop and execute functional test cases to validate integration changes with engineers and the business.
Ensure changes meet business expectations and quality standards before production release.
Provide clear, timely communication about project status, commitments, risks, and changes.
Partner with leadership to align priorities with team capacity and technical considerations.
Drive accountability, follow-through, and timely resolution of outstanding actions and decisions.
Maintain work tracking, including new requests in Azure DevOps and ServiceNow.
Identify opportunities to improve delivery processes, testing practices, and overall team efficiency.