Job Description

Job Title: HRIS Workday Product Owner

Employment Type: Contract (Potential to convert to full-time employment)

Working Location: on-site 3 days/week in the Georgetown neighborhood strongly preferred

Required Core Hours/Time Zone: Pacific Time Zone

Notable Benefits: Elective Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance available

Work Authorization Requirements: Please note that this position is not eligible for candidates who require current or future visa sponsorship.

Job Description:

About the Opportunity

We are seeking an experienced HRIS Workday Product Owner to support the successful delivery of Workday-related capabilities for the Elevate program, a high-visibility, enterprise initiative.

This role is designed as a senior individual contributor responsible for driving clarity, momentum, and delivery discipline for Workday activities within Elevate. The position partners closely with HR, Technology, and program leadership to ensure Workday capabilities are effectively aligned to program outcomes, timelines, and business needs. This is a consulting engagement designed to bring strong product ownership, HR domain expertise, and rigorous execution to a complex transformation environment.

Role Summary

The HRIS Workday Product Owner will serve as the primary point of accountability for Workday-related scope within the Elevate program, with potential role expansion. This role focuses on ensuring requirements are well-defined, priorities are clear, dependencies are managed, and delivery is coordinated across HR, Technology, vendors, and business stakeholders.

The ideal candidate is a strong operator who can work effectively in ambiguity, influence across functions without formal authority, and bring structure to complex, opinion-rich environments. A person who can close tasks and deliver outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

• Elevate Program Delivery
• Own and coordinate all Workday-related activities in support of the Elevate program, ensuring alignment to program objectives, milestones, and success criteria.
• Partner with Elevate program leadership and project team members, HR, and Technology to translate business needs into clear Workday requirements and delivery plans.
• Ensure Workday deliverables are appropriately sequenced, scoped, and executed to support program timelines.
• Identify risks, dependencies, and gaps related to Workday delivery and proactively drive resolution.

Product Ownership Within the Program

• Act as the Workday product owner for Elevate, owning intake, prioritization, and refinement of program-related enhancements and changes.
• Ensure decisions are grounded in business impact, user experience, and platform integrity.
• Facilitate alignment across stakeholders with differing perspectives, driving decisions forward without escalation or positional authority.

Stakeholder Partnership & Influence

• Build strong working relationships with HR leaders, Technology partners, vendors, and business stakeholders.
• Navigate differing priorities and opinions with professionalism, confidence, and political awareness.
• Communicate clearly and credibly with leaders from VP level to end users.

• Execution & Enablement Coordinate testing, validation, and readiness activities to support successful Workday releases tied to Elevate.
• Support change enablement, training, and adoption efforts as needed to ensure program success.
• Bring discipline, transparency, and follow-through to Workday-related delivery.

Qualifications & Experience

The successful candidate will bring many of the following:

HRIS & Workday Expertise

• 8+ years of experience working with enterprise HRIS solutions.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience with Workday, including Core HCM and exposure to ATS/Recruiting, Onboarding, Compensation, Benefits, and Performance Management.
• Strong understanding of HR business processes across the employee lifecycle.

Product & Delivery Experience

• Experience supporting or owning product delivery within large programs or transformations.
• Familiarity with product lifecycle concepts, including roadmap planning, backlog management, release coordination, and adoption.
• Demonstrated ability to partner with technical delivery teams (internal or vendor) to translate business requirements into clearly mapped, executable outcomes.
• Demonstrated project and product management skills, with the ability to operate in both structured and evolving delivery environments.
• Ability to balance short-term delivery needs with longer-term platform considerations. HR Technology & Market Awareness
• Understanding of the broader HR technology ecosystem and how Workday fits within an integrated HR tech stack.
• Awareness of industry trends, best practices, and evolving HR technology capabilities.
• Ability to bring informed recommendations grounded in both market knowledge and practical constraints.

Education, Tools & Additional Experience

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience required.
• Proficiency in Microsoft tools such as SharePoint, MS Project, and Power BI is a plus, but not required.
• Previous experience in a technology work environment required.
• Knowledge of software development methodologies is a plus, but not required.

Industry Experience

• 3–5 years of experience in product management or technology solutions within complex enterprise environments.
• Previous experience in the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry is desired.

Professional Capabilities

• Outstanding organizational, written, and verbal communication skills.
• Strong analytical skills and attention to detail.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities, stakeholders, and workstreams effectively.
• Proven ability to influence outcomes without formal authority.
• Strong interpersonal skills and comfort navigating conflict and competing priorities.
• Politically competent, confident, and pragmatic.
• Action-oriented, organized, and accountable for outcomes.

Please Note: Any pay ranges displayed are estimations. Actual pay is determined by an applicant's experience, technical expertise, and other qualifications as listed in the job description. All qualified applicants are welcome to apply.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential function satisfactorily. Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive list of duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

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