Director of Program Operations for Business Technology, Workday
$156.5-273.7k
Enterprise AI platform for managing HR and finance
Job no longer available
Enterprise AI platform for managing HR and finance
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$156.5-273.7k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To leverage the power of AI to elevate humans and supercharge work, moving business forever forward.
Role
Who you are
- Experience leading and building PMO’s for large organizations with Program Managers who partner with our product teams and business partners to deliver against our strategic priorities
- Led the Agile transformation/standardization of an IT organization
- Experience tightly aligning a PMO and business Strategy team
- Comfortable leading large cross functional meetings with cross business leaders
- Ability to navigate ambiguity, drive clarity, strive for excellence and be comfortable under pressure. Experience building and leading teams through change
- Ability to collaborate and standardize practices across teams
- Excellent communication and presentation skills, ability to create a compelling vision and tell the story with appropriate slides
- Bachelor's Degree required, Master's Degree preferred
- 10+ years of progressive project management experience
- Deep project/program planning and implementation background; demonstrated success delivering major/mission critical projects, including all aspects of process development and execution
- In-depth knowledge of agile methodologies and experience in running large programs with agile teams
- Stay current with a variety of approaches used in the industry. Facilitates the tailoring of new methodologies to the workday environment as needed
- Demonstrated IT leadership skills with PMO interaction
- Team oriented, collaborative leader willing to get deeply involved in implementing process improvement efforts
- Experience measuring and governing key PM processes (e.g., value management, project life cycle, portfolio management)
- Demonstrated experience successfully leading a team of Project Managers, Portfolio Analysts and Agile practitioners; demonstrated ability to discern talent and proactively manage and mentor professional staff
What the job involves
- You will lead the standardization of our Program & Portfolio processes that enable the delivery of Business Technology Products and Services for our business partners
- You will be responsible for overall Program and portfolio management across the Business Technology (IT) organization
- In this role, you drive the Program and Portfolio Strategy aligned to our corporate initiatives
- You will build, lead and challenge our team of Program Managers as you standardize the organization to an Agile portfolio
- You will partner with Leadership, internal Business partners and Product teams to ensure we achieve operational excellence across all programs and portfolio deliverables
- In this role, you will align tightly with our strategy team and support the execution of our most important strategic initiatives into execution
- Drive the execution of our vision and strategic initiatives across Business Technology
- Accountable for the successful delivery of key cross functional initiatives to enable Workday’s overall growth at scale
- Partners with the CIO leadership to ensure consistent and sustained delivery of the Product and Project portfolios
- Lead the Program, Portfolio and Agile teams who partner with our product teams and business partners to deliver against our strategic priorities
- Mature Program Management methodologies to further enable visibility into the health of our Products and Programs through the use of business justification, key risk indicators, and predictive measures to ensure overall health and value realization measurements
- Define success metrics and build scorecards required to ensure sustainable operational excellence
- Drive the adoption of Agile across all of Business Technology teams and measure the efficacy of the adoption
- Creates appropriate communication and status reporting mechanisms to ensure leadership is consistently aligned on PMO strategy, direction, budget, portfolio status, risks, mitigation plans and future roadmaps
- Create a Community of Practice inclusive of all Program and Project Managers in Business technology in order to evolve standards and adherence to best practices
- Ability to navigate ambiguity, drive clarity, strive for excellence and comfortable under pressure
- Excellent communication and presentation skills, ability to create a compelling vision and tell the story with appropriate slides
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.
The company has also grown through acquisitions and partnerships to broaden its capabilities.. Most recently, in 2025 it purchases Sana, an AI-driven enterprise knowledge and learning platform, to create a "new front door for work". This acquisition allows Workday to integrate Sana's AI-powered search, agents, and learning capabilities with its own data and workflows, allowing employees to access information, automate tasks, and complete their day entirely within Workday.
Through a combination of strategic acquisitions and in-house development, WOrkday has built a comprehensive suite of HR, financial, and enterprise tools. By focusing on innovation and AI-driven workflows, the company continues to push productivity and decision-making for organizations worldwide. Building on this track record, Workday is very much positioned for even more growth, reinforcing its status as a leader in shaping the future of work.
Kirsty
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 HQ
Pleasanton, CA
Leadership
Aneel Bhusri
(Co-Founder & Executive Chair)Annel began his career at Morgan Stanley as a Corporate Finance Analyst. He then spent nearly 6 years at PeopleSoft as a Senior VP before co-founding Workday in 2005, where he has served as the CEO ever since.
Carl Eschenbach
(CEO)Carl joined Workday in 2022 as Co-CEO, becoming CEO in 2024. He has also been a Partner at Sequoia Capital since 2016. Previously, he spent 14 years at VMware as President and COO and 3 years at Inktomi Corporation as the VP of North America Sales.
Peter Bailis
(CTO)Prior to joining Workday in 2025, People was a VP of Engineering at Google. He also previously founded Sisu Data, where he served as the CEO for over 5 years.
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