Product Owner, Workday

• This individual should be a top tier professional with experience and tenure in data analytics and proven experience leading business change through data
• 8 + Experience working with business leaders to lead and prioritize analytics and data backlog
• 3 + years leading federated teams representing analytics, data governance, data quality, data transformation, and data analytics team members and align around common goals
• Experience with managing stakeholders and developing an intimate understanding of current and future business needs to ensure data management solutions help businesses, regions and functions deliver on their strategies
• Ability to lead in ambiguous situations with creative problem solving
• Proven ability to drive consensus across business lines on prioritization
• Outstanding communication skills
• Proven experience in data and analytics that span multiple business functions/regions, preferably in technology companies
• Experience in the software industry
• Experience in Agile delivery models and tools
• Experience in Sales, Forecasting, and Business planning (in the high tech area a plus)
• Flexible, team player who drives the decision making process in ambiguous situations

• In 2024, Workday launched an Enterprise Data and Analytics team with a mission to transform and optimize the way Workday creates and shares trusted data to drive actionable insights and data led innovation across the enterprise
• The team has introduced a new, cloud based technical stack, a Data Product methodology anchored in the principles of Data Ops, an Active Data Governance methodology to manage the quality and discovery of data, and a series of modern analytics tools that facilitate discovery, analysis, visualization, machine learning, and AI
• The team’s goal is to lead high value cross-functional data and analytics work and to establish and support the broader Workday analytics community by establishing modern, common ways of working, facilitating training and communication, and creating secure data and analytics brokering capability across business units
• Workday has worked with the business to identify critical business areas in which data and analytics can make a material difference in the execution of Workday’s strategic goals
• Each of these goals is being organized as a data product with a dedicated cross-functional team to drive a diverse set of data management, governance, and data analytics to realize relevant, measurable business change
• With a mix of data scientists, data governance, business analysts, and business partners on the team, the Data Product Owner develops and maintains a vision and coordinates the priorities of business backlog and execution of the plan
• This role will focus on the business planning and forecasting elements of the workday business, aligning the information and analytical needs across organizations such as Sales, Marketing, Customer Experience, Office of COO, and Business Finance
• This role will enable iterative value delivery to the business in the tradition of product management, with a backlog of requirements, fixed resource availability, and a DevOps framework, including the establishment of a relevant communications and organizational change process in a highly matrixed environment
• It will also involve business engagement to prioritize requirements and to highlight status to senior business leaders

• 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)

Total funding: $215.3m

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.