Sr. Director, Product - Workday Platform & Transformation jobs in United States
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Salesforce · 4 hours ago

Sr. Director, Product - Workday Platform & Transformation

Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together. The company is seeking an experienced Senior Director to lead the Workday Platform & Agentic Transformation Product Line, focusing on product delivery, operations maturity, and driving innovation through AI technologies.

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Responsibilities

Lead Workday Platform strategy and architecture across both HCM and Finance modules, ensuring optimal shared platform capabilities
Define and execute the northstar architecture vision for Finance & Employee Success technology ecosystem
Drive net-new AI Agent development and implementation to enhance organizational capacity and delivery across Finance & ES systems
Establish data foundation strategies to enable effective AI agent deployment and autonomous system capabilities
Partner with internal product teams across the organization to leverage agentic technologies for process transformation
Work with both the business and team portfolio management to define annual budget requests aligned to roadmaps and goals and manage spend to expectations
Lead Product Management, Engineering and Operations team to deliver on key business and technology objectives
Ensure Enterprise Standards and Process are followed by the team and raise exceptions for review in the correct governance frameworks
Lead major company projects and be accountable for key reporting indicators for those programs accountable to the Vice President of IT Finance & Employee Success
Demonstrate thought leadership for Portfolio and Product development and optimization with a high focus on accountability and ownership at each level of the organization
Rally the multi-functional teams that span over multiple time zones and function in a variety of agile methodologies to hold teams and individuals accountable for adhering to standard processes and defined Product and Portfolio
Hire, develop and retain the best talent in the industry
Invest in the success of every member of the team, providing opportunities for personal development and career growth
Collaborate with vendors and industry consultants to continuously learn and identify opportunities to advance our strategy and operating model for supporting our business partners
Maintain and lead awareness of industry best practices and relevant technologies, particularly in AI/ML and autonomous systems

Qualification

Workday Platform experienceProduct ManagementAgile methodologyAI/ML implementationFinance domain experienceTechnical degreeEnterprise Data conceptsCommunication skillsTeam collaborationProblem solvingLeadership skills

Required

10+ years in product management or related experience
12+ years of development and/or agile management experience
Prior experience managing technology in an 'operational' setting driving uptime SLAs, reliability and resilience
Experience managing Profit and Loss and team-specific budgets
Successfully led and delivered on projects with specific benefits and outcomes achieved
Agile methodology and/or Scaled Agile
A related technical degree required
Workday Platform experience strongly preferred- deep understanding of one or both HCM and Finance modules, platform architecture, and integration capabilities
Past experience in Finance and/or HR domain with implementing and managing technology solutions across various process areas - P2P (Plan to Perform), R2R (Record to Report), S2P (Source to Pay), SOX

Preferred

Experience deploying finance / HR applications at large scale
Experience with Salesforce Agentic technologies and AI agent development
Snowflake experience and data platform architecture
AI/ML implementation experience, particularly in enterprise finance and HR contexts
Deep understanding of how to work directly with a large number of multi-functional collaborators and drive teams with differing perspectives & methodologies in a unifying direction using influence and partnership
Highly entrepreneurial, flexible, and innovative with a demonstrated bias for action and thriving in a matrixed, hub-and-spoke model environment

Benefits

Time off programs
Medical
Dental
Vision
Mental health support
Paid parental leave
Life and disability insurance
401(k)
Employee stock purchasing program

Company

Salesforce

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Salesforce is a cloud-based software company that provides customer relationship management software and applications.

H1B Sponsorship

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2024 (2296)
2023 (1850)
2022 (2849)
2021 (2124)
2020 (1960)

Funding

Current Stage
Public Company
Total Funding
$65.38M
Key Investors
Starboard ValueEmergence CapitalHalsey Minor
2022-10-18Post Ipo Equity
2004-06-23IPO
2003-01-01Series Unknown· $1M

Leadership Team

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Arundhati Bhattacharya
CEO & Chairperson, Salesforce India and South Asia
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Marc Benioff
Chair & CEO
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