Senior Product Owner, Workday Financial Systems

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

📋 Description

• Take ownership of a well-prioritized, organized, and development-ready engineering backlog.

• Collaborate with business stakeholders to gather requirements, set acceptance criteria, and align priorities with business goals.

• Lead the planning of delivery, establish timelines, milestones, and manage cross-functional dependencies.

• Track progress, identify potential risks, and escalate obstacles along with recommended solutions.

• Facilitate backlog refinement sessions with engineers and prioritize sessions with business partners.

• Create and implement functional test cases to validate integration modifications.

• Ensure that changes align with business expectations and meet quality standards prior to production deployment.

• Communicate project status, commitments, risks, and changes transparently.

• Align priorities with team capacity and technical considerations in collaboration with leadership.

• Foster accountability, ensure follow-through, and resolve any outstanding actions and decisions.

• Maintain work tracking, including new requests in Azure DevOps and ServiceNow.

• Identify opportunities for enhancing delivery processes, testing methodologies, and team efficiency.

⛳️ Requirements

• 3-4 years of experience in Delivery Management and/or Product Ownership.

• Familiarity with Workday integrations and Finance and Accounting processes.

• Experience in functional testing.

• Strong grasp of backlog management, requirements gathering, and software delivery lifecycle processes.

• Proficient in using Azure DevOps, ServiceNow, or similar project management tools.

• Exceptional organizational, communication, time management, stakeholder management, and problem-solving abilities.

• Proven ability to juggle competing priorities, foresee risks, and drive high-quality outcomes across cross-functional teams.

• Experience in leading stakeholder meetings and fostering relationships.

🏝️ Benefits

• Annual bonus eligibility.

• Incentives.

• Medical benefits.

• Dental benefits.

• Vision benefits.

• 401K retirement plan.

• Paid time off.

• Opportunities for career advancement.

• Reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.