Job Title: Sr Product Manager, Workforce Management
Location with zip code: Seattle, WA, 98101
Pay Rate: $65/hr. to $85/hr. on W2 (Hybrid- Mon, Tues, Wed-onsite)
Shift Timing (Day/ Evening/ Night: 8am-5pm PST
Duration: 10 months
Job Summary:
- The Senior Product Manager is a key member of the Product Management team, responsible for establishing and executing a strategic capability roadmap within the Workforce Management space.
- Workforce Management is a critical function at Client's location that seeks to optimize our workforce to improve efficiency, productivity, and cost-effectiveness through activities like scheduling, forecasting, tracking attendance and absences, and reporting.
- The Senior Product Manager, Workforce Management will lead the design, development, and execution of Workforce Management solutions.
- The Senior Product Manager will be responsible for crafting a product roadmap that enhances employee and manager experience while ensuring accuracy and compliance in alignment with organizational goals.
- This position is critical to driving data-informed decision-making and delivering measurable business outcomes.
- The Senior Product Manager will work closely with cross-functional teams, including Human Resources, Operations, Engineering, and Workforce Management and manage the full product lifecycle-from identifying opportunities and gathering requirements to prioritizing features and launching impactful solutions.
- The role requires the ability to translate business needs into actionable product plans, manage competing priorities, and deliver scalable, user-centric tools.
- The candidate must also demonstrate strong communication skills to align with executive stakeholders, provide regular updates, and present product performance metrics.
- To be successful in this role, the candidate must have at least six (6) years of product management experience, with a strong focus on Workforce Management.
- The individual must exhibit both strategic thinking and hands-on execution abilities, with a proven track record of delivering results in dynamic, cross-functional environments.
- This role is an opportunity to apply deep product management expertise to transform Workforce Management and drive meaningful organizational impact.
Role & Responsibilities:
- Ensures seamless collaboration with business and technology for responsive support for impactful product deliveries
- Crafts a multi-year product vision, articulating the value proposition and ensuring alignment to company strategic vision without support.
- Evangelizes vision across the organization and the company where appropriate
- Defines the approach to deliver on the broader product vision.
- Breaks down roadmaps into releasable features without support and owns the prioritization and sequencing of those features to best support strategic goals.
- Prioritizes feature backlog, accounting for complexity, impact, and cohesion with business unit strategy
- Orchestrates comprehensive product planning sessions within their domain and across dependencies.
- Leads customer research and independently synthesizes insights to develop a deep understanding of relevant product opportunities
- Demonstrates a deep understanding of market value and trends (including competitor products) and incorporates into product roadmaps.
- Writes complete user stories and acceptance criteria within domain and influences across domains.
- Drives progress against deliverables across their broader domain, proactively managing risks and dependencies so that outcomes are achieved
- Determines testing strategy and other acceptance criteria requirements
- Engages cross-functionally to ensure incidents are appropriately triaged and addressed. Communicates impacts across the business without support.
- Prioritizes product roadmap to balance short-term deliverables with long term progress, across multiple domains with support.
- Develops feature timeline and sequencing plan within a product line, considering technical and operational constraints and delivery of iterative value without support.
Required Skills:
- 6+ years in the product management discipline, preferably in HR technology or workforce platforms
- Minimum of 3+ years in the Workday ecosystem, preferably hands on experience with Time and Attendance, Scheduling and Labor Optimization and Absence.
- Proven track record of managing all aspects of a successful product related to Workforce Management throughout its lifecycle
- Strong understanding of labor compliance, workforce policies, and HR operational workflows
- Ability to inspire others, including demonstrated experience managing and leading strong teams
- Ability to partner effectively to define, measure and analyze processes to identify improvement opportunities
- Technical background and understanding of software development principles, including Agile development, and testing methodologies
- Proficient in data analysis and performance metrics
- Strong critical thinking, analytical and problem-solving skills
- Ability to explain complex technical material clearly to users with varying levels of proficiency
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including presenting to various levels within a matrixed organization
- Outstanding organizational and time management skills
- Knowledge of product management tools (e.g. Aha!, etc.)
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