Sr. Lead Product Owner, Workday Payroll

Outstanding long-term contract opportunity! Sr. Product Owner in Minneapolis, MN (Hybrid).
Join top talent at a leading global institution. Enjoy long-term contract perks with competitive benefits! Thriving on innovation in the digital era, our renowned company is dedicated to meeting customers' needs and fostering success. Apply now!
*No C2C or third parties
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

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