Principal Product Owner | Workday HCM/Finance/Adaptive

The Workday Human Capital Product Owner works in the Department of Information Technology Solutions (ITS). They are responsible for strategic governance, planning, and execution activities surrounding the Workday HCM/Finance/Adaptive Systems. They align the technology and business team's strategies, systems analysis, and requirement definitions for key business objectives.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Leverage knowledge of Workday's HCM/Finance/Adaptive enterprise software to provide deep functional expertise to Higher Education clients.
• Engage in discovery around an organization's current environment and deliver relevant, impactful presentations and demonstrations illustrating how Workday's Enterprise applications can address requirements, solve business concerns, and create value.
• Drive Workday application roadmap at an enterprise level in collaboration with cross-functional stakeholders to achieve the product vision and strategically aligned prioritization.
• Build close relationships with the functional teams to understand requirements to innovate, grow, improve efficiencies, address compliance requirements, complete change request and enhancement projects.
• Apply agile methodologies to manage and evaluate the Workday backlog, of change requests, and enhancements and drive prioritization of items and release cycles.
• Plan and drive Workday's semi-annual system releases and new module implementations, ensuring minimal disruption to daily operations.
• Establish a culture of continuous improvement and implement feedback loops with all stakeholders.
• Partner with department leads to develop business cases inclusive of project budgets, evaluating risk levels, legacy system impacts, stability, organizational policies and reliability.
• Apply creative solutions to design workflows and procedures with strong attention to detail.
• Review project plans to plan and coordinate project activity.
• Establish strong working relationships with Executive Sponsors, department heads, managers, supervisors, vendors, and others, to solicit cooperation and resolve problems.
• Exhibits leadership by confidence in self and others, inspires and motivates others to perform well, and effectively influences actions and opinions of others.

• Continuously upgrade their skillsets and knowledge of Workday.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

Education & Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Mathematics, Engineering, or related field or equivalent experience
• 10+ years of relevant work experience
• Experience in higher education practices, technologies, and challenges

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Expertise in knowledge of administrative systems around HR & Finance
• An understanding of Cloud-based HCM/Finance SaaS solutions is desired
• Experience with Workday Prism
• Experience with Workday Extend
• Experience in presenting administrative computing solutions in front of a technical and business audience
• 5+ years of product management experience
• 5+ years of product owner experience
• 5+ years of professional experience translating customer and market needs into product deliverables and release support through the entire product life cycle
• Ability to work under pressure and work on multiple projects
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
• Strong presentation skills
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills
• Strong verbal communication skills
• Ability to keep up with new business and technical concepts
• Able to work with minimal supervision
• Must display a positive attitude
• Must be able to lead and mentor others
• Understanding of Agile Frameworks (Kanban/Scrum)
• Understanding of software development life cycle