Lead Digital Product Manager – Workday

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Oversee the product strategy, vision, roadmap, and lifecycle management for Allstate’s Workday product portfolio.

• Manage, mentor, and develop product managers across areas including Core HR, compensation, time and attendance, talent management, recruiting, and onboarding.

• Convert HR and business outcomes into product strategies, roadmaps, capabilities, and prioritized backlogs.

• Balance the needs of stakeholders with the overall experience of Allstate employees.

• Assess requests based on employee impact, business value, effort, risk, dependencies, and long-term priorities.

• Formulate and communicate recommendations for building, buying, or partnering.

• Decide whether to leverage existing Workday functionalities, create internal solutions, or explore additional vendors.

• Collaborate with engineering and technology teams on internal, AI-enabled, and agentic capabilities.

• Develop roadmaps that outline how and when desired outcomes will be achieved.

• Lead discovery, testing, and learning initiatives.

• Establish and monitor product KPIs related to adoption, business outcomes, operational effectiveness, and product value.

• Coordinate features, integrations, dependencies, and backlogs across Workday and internally developed products.

• Articulate product decisions, trade-offs, and priorities to senior leaders, stakeholders, technical teams, and vendors.

• Act as a trusted Workday product expert with an enterprise-first perspective.

• Monitor investments and operational effectiveness, recommending necessary adjustments.

• Spearhead the development and adoption of scalable product management practices and processes.

⛳️ Requirements

• In-depth knowledge of the Workday platform, including its products, modules, features, and dependencies.

• Experience in leading product strategy and roadmap development for Workday or similar large-scale enterprise SaaS platforms in an internal, end-user context.

• Workday proficiency across multiple functional areas; preference for Core HR, compensation, and time and attendance.

• Proven experience in evaluating and conveying build-versus-buy decisions.

• Experience in creating outcome-based product roadmaps and prioritizing competing requests.

• Proven ability to partner with engineering teams and assess internal technology or AI-enabled capabilities.

• Strong skills in executive communication, stakeholder management, and influence.

• Ability to clarify complex product decisions and trade-offs to both technical and non-technical audiences.

• Experience in leading, coaching, and developing product managers.

• Capability to operate within a complex, cross-functional environment involving HR, technology, engineering, operations, and vendor partners.

• Comfort in discussing technical dependencies, integrations, implementation considerations, and platform capabilities.

• Preferably ten or more years of relevant experience in product management, enterprise platforms, HR technology, or related fields.

• Prior experience in managing product teams and overseeing products across multiple business or functional areas is preferred.

• Supervisory responsibilities.

• Willingness to travel for periodic in-person meetings, potentially up to once per quarter.

• Successful completion of a background investigation.

• Allstate typically does not sponsor employment-based visas for this position.

• A dedicated, private workspace is required when working from home.

• Reliable internet connection with minimum speeds of 50 MB download and 5 MB upload is necessary.

🏝️ Benefits

• Comprehensive technology setup, including a laptop, monitors, headset, keyboard, and mouse.

• Monthly connectivity reimbursement to help mitigate internet costs.

• Remote work arrangement.

• An opportunity to join a meaningful, mission-driven team.