Senior Lead Workday Payroll Product Owner

This role is responsible for the US Payroll product vision, roadmap, and delivery of solutions. Must be a strong collaborator with exceptional interpersonal, communication, and critical thinking skills. Success in this role requires the ability to thrive as a hands-on independent contributor, yet the ability to leverage leadership acumen to build credibility and direct matrixed resources in a fast-paced and constantly evolving environment.

This role has a unique opportunity to strengthen our Workday US/North America Payroll product. We are going through an exciting implementation of Canada payroll, and also delivering custom built solutions leveraging Workday Extend. We continue to look at innovative ways to deliver payroll for our employees and this role has a unique ability to influence and deliver that roadmap.

In this role, you will:

Advise leadership to develop or influence business plans, business requirements, direct product design and implementation for complex HR business and technical needs

Oversee overall product management and strategic focus for the most technical, complex, and diverse HR products and services

Lead the strategy and resolution of complex and unique challenges requiring in-depth understanding of potential synergies and opportunities companywide

Deliver solutions that are long-term, large scale, and require consideration of global market dynamics, trends, regulatory impact, and risk management

Provide vision, direction, and expertise to leadership on implementing innovative and significant business solutions that are strategically focused

Articulate the Payroll product vision, define scope, prioritize backlog, establish goals, and provide direction for teams to design, develop, and deliver technology and processes for updating, upgrading technologies and vendor relationships

Manage processes and routines needed to ensure that the product predictably delivers value, adjust planning in situations that may include financial, control, or process roadblocks

Inspect pre-release progress, recommend changes, and ensure timelines are met

Develop and monitor product roadmap and key performance indicators, identify improvement opportunities, and ensure regulatory and policy compliance

Ensure cross-functional dependencies and business readiness needs are articulated, managed, and addressed to successfully execute work with quality and on-time

Engage with leaders, stakeholders, subject matter experts, scrum masters, project managers and delivery team companywide

Serve as an expert advisor to executives on complex, visible, and diverse solutions

Required Qualifications:

7 years of Product Management, product development, strategic planning, process management, change delivery, or agile product owner experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education

Desired Qualifications:

3 years Agile experience

7 years of HR Systems experience (e.g., Workday, Peoplesoft, SAP, ServiceNow HRSD (Human Resource Service Delivery), Oracle, or similar)

6 years of Workday Payroll experience leading a product team

5 years of experience with SaaS (Software as a Service) based payroll vendors (e.g., ADP, Earned Wage Access, etc.)

Experience implementing Workday Payroll functionality in US and Canada (international) preferred

3 years of experience with ServiceNow HR Service Delivery (HRSD)

Experience consulting, implementing, and owning Human Resource products and tools

Experience leading scrum teams in an Agile environment and strong Agile knowledge

Experience influencing and managing cross-functional work streams to execute initiatives with quality and on-time

Experience leading and facilitating workshops and discussions to effectively gather requirements and achieve a detailed understanding of client objectives and desired outcomes

Experience integrating systems with third-party service vendors

Job Expectations:

This position is a hybrid work model, must be willing to work out of Minneapolis, MN, Charlotte, NC, Phoenix, AZ or Dallas, TX approximately 3 days a week