Principal Program Manager, Workday
New Offering Launches
$138.5-246k
Salary is dependent on location
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Office located in Boulder, CO; Pleasanton, CA; or San Francisco, CA
Enterprise management cloud platform
Job no longer available
Enterprise management cloud platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$138.5-246k
Salary is dependent on location
More information about location
Office located in Boulder, CO; Pleasanton, CA; or San Francisco, CA
1001+ employees
Company mission
To provide an all-in-one management cloud solution for the rapidly changing business requirements of the modern world.
Role
Who you are
- This is a highly visible role within Workday that requires a high degree of business acumen and an exceptional ability to build cross-functional relationships while driving programmatic execution
- While being an expert in all functions is not required, you’ll need to demonstrate confidence, resourcefulness, adaptability, and flexibility to address issues to move a launch forward
- 7+ years of professional experience working cross-functionally with peer team, executives, colleagues, and third parties to achieve strategic business outcomes
- High intellectual curiosity, with passion for problem solving with structured thinking and data, with a bias toward pragmatic solutions
- Superior organizational skills to manage multiple efforts across multiple stakeholders
- Ability to apply templates and methodologies, while maintaining flexibility and adaptability in a dynamic business environment
- Experience in similar or adjacent roles within a technology company, ideally in enterprise software
- Other Qualifications:
- Change agent with strong communication skills: proven track record to influence senior and mid-level leaders, communicate effectively & build buy-in for change
- Strong program/project management skills and prior experience
- Collaborative decision-making: demonstrated experience defining approaches, processes & forums to support effective decision-making in cross-functional settings
- Operational excellence: demonstrated experience building and improving team processes and methods
- Ability to thrive in a dynamic, results-oriented work environment and be aligned to Workday culture and values
- Prior experience with process design and business operations a plus
What the job involves
- The New Offer Launch (NOL) team is responsible for commercializing new sources of revenue at Workday, prioritizing and driving accountability for the planned business impact
- These sources may include newly developed product and service offers, solutions enabled through partnerships, or expansion of our target markets
- The NOL team partners across all Workday business functions to define the business strategy and then drive action to position new businesses to scale
- As the volume and complexity of Workday’s product & offering portfolio grows, we are partnering with key business and operations functions, including Finance, Sales, Partners, Marketing, Customer Experience, and Business Technology team to make foundational improvements to our operations to accelerate speed to market and scale new business models
- As a New Offer Launch Lead, you will organize and drive a cross-functional team to define the business strategy and bring new offers to market
- As a strategic partner to senior business leaders, it's critical that you possess exceptional leadership, interpersonal, and communication skills, and are adept at cutting through complexity to shape and drive decisions
- Lead program(s) from inception/initiation to launch in market, in alignment to stated launch objectives
- Develop in-depth understanding of the offer vision, value proposition and roadmap, and work with functional teams to translate strategy into detailed execution plans and where applicable, operational requirements
- Structure, prioritize and facilitate strategic and tactical decisions to drive program progress
- Collaborate to define the GTM readiness approach and delivery mechanisms for each offer, while remaining anchored in business outcomes
- Help define and evangelize the vision, strategy, and roadmap for the offer and clearly communicate the milestones, deliverables, and interdependencies required to realize that vision
- Partner closely with the offer owner in decision making, managing and mitigating risks and resolving escalations
- Support building and improving processes and systems
Application process
- End Date: March 8, 2025
- Target Hire Date: 6/5/2025
Our take
Workday is a cloud-based software vendor that provides management of workforces and finances. The company uses a single database for workforce management and financial management to offer integration and optimize business intelligence across companies. It has added to the packages and tools it offers over the years, providing analytic options that allow companies to combine third-party data with information collected by Workday.
Workday has acquired and paired up with many other companies to keep expanding its offering. In 2021, it purchased the employee feedback platform Peakon in response to the growing need for managers to be able to survey workers and collect satisfaction data without face-to-face meetings. The company has also bought and developed many financial tools and HR management tools.
The company’s goal is to provide end-to-end back office services and while there are other providers, such as UKG Pro and Ceridian HCM, Workday’s broad offering helps them to stand out. Though it faced a tough global market in 2023 and has shed some of its headcount, Workday has seen a 6.5% gain in value in the first quarter of 2024. It is now focusing on growth and developing the AI capabilities of its platform. .
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
16% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Oct 2011
$85m
SERIES F
Apr 2009
$75m
SERIES E
Total funding: $215.3m
Company benefits
- Company equity
- Vision and dental insurance
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
- Virtual primary care
- Flexible time-off policy
- Global mental health resources
- Global dedicated on-site clinical counselors
- Global well-being days
- $25k fertility/family planning benefits
- North Star financial wellness
- Retirement funds and matching
- 401k plan
- On-site health clinic (Pleasanton office)
Company HQ
Pleasanton, CA
Leadership
Aneel Bhusri
(CEO)Worked for Morgan Stanley for 3 years and took a Stanford MBA, before spending almost 6 years at Oracle as SVP. Co-founded Workday in 2005 while working as a Greylock Advisory Partner.
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