Workday Product Owner

Role Overview: As a Workday Product Owner, your main focus will be to ensure that HR technology products and solutions align with strategic goals. You will be responsible for translating stakeholder needs into a well-defined and prioritized product backlog. Acting as the conduit between Business Stakeholders, System Development Teams, and Product providers, you will drive the success of the product globally. Key Responsibilities: - Develop and articulate a clear product vision aligned with organizational objectives. - Actively engage with stakeholders, including HRBPs, employees, and leadership, to understand their needs, priorities, and challenges. - Guide development efforts to ensure they contribute to the long-term vision and success of the product. - Facilitate ongoing communication between development teams and stakeholders. - Maintain a well-defined and prioritized product backlog, based on business value, user feedback, and strategic goals, through tools identified (e.g. JIRA). - Break down complex features into actionable tasks, understand the associated functional and technical implications, ensuring a clear understanding of development expectations. - Review and own Licensing for the product. - Own Partner Service Reviews on a Quarterly basis to drive improvement. - Review Market trends and benchmark practices. - Review and maximize the value addition of annual planned developments, publish on a quarterly basis Feature Adoption Health Scorecard. Project Management: - Liaise on all projects, creating, actively managing, and tracking project initiatives and deliverables. - Work with Project and Service Delivery teams to support Project phase and Business as Usual. - Review Capacity vs Project demands for project deliveries planned; Forecast and plan project activities and involvement of the Service Delivery teams. - Work in partnership with the CPO Technology team to optimize resource management. - Actively resolve bottlenecks, provide guidance and SME knowledge for project initiatives. - Provide regular updates on project progress, address queries, and manage expectations. - Transition system development activities seamlessly to business-as-usual. Risks and Audits: - First point of contact for any product-related risks identified. - Support and work closely with Service Delivery teams to resolve any Product related issues/escalations. - Act as a point of escalation to resolve Product related issues with Providers. - Ensure continuous risk mitigation and process improvement. Qualifications Required: - Overall, 10-12 years of experience as a Product Owner role or similar in HRIS/HRIT; 5+ Years of demonstrable experience with Workday HCM. - Minimum bachelor's degree in any stream. - Strong understanding of Agile methodologies and experience with Scrum or Kanban; Certifications such as PMP, CSM, SAFe are a plus. - Extensive expertise in Stakeholder management. - Excellent communications and Interpersonal Skills; Ability to address diverse audiences with the right level of complexity, language, and refinement. - Initiative in keeping abreast of changing industry practices, analytical and design methods, system tools and techniques. - Demonstrated capability to support data governance & protection models. - Strong analytical and problem-solving skills; ability to make data-driven decisions.,