Senior Product Manager - Talent and Development

Position: Senior Staff Product Manager - Talent Performance and Development
** Overview*
* As a Technical Product Manager and Product Strategist, you will be the subject matter expert on talent performance and talent management platforms, with a focus on Workday. In this expanded role, you will blend  
** technical expertise, system design thinking, and long-range product strategy
** to shape how the company measures, manages, and grows talent. You will define the  
** future-state vision
** for talent development and performance solutions, evaluate new technologies (e.g., manager AI agent, promotion tools, goal-setting platforms), and influence investment decisions across the enterprise.

Your role sits at the intersection of  
** product strategy, system architecture, and organizational transformation** , ensuring our performance and talent management capabilities are reliable, scalable, and strategically aligned to business and workforce priorities.

** Responsibilities*
* ** Responsibilities*
* ** Product & System Ownership*
* + Drive the design, configuration, and roadmap for Workday Talent Performance modules, aligning system capabilities with evolving business and workforce needs.

+ Translate talent performance goals into functional and technical system requirements that deliver measurable outcomes.

+ Own backlog prioritization and partner with HR and IT teams to continuously enhance the employee and manager experience.

+ Ensure product decisions support both short-term delivery and long-term strategic product direction.

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** Define a multi-year product strategy
** for talent performance, development, and talent management platforms, including how Workday, internal tools, and new technologies integrate into a unified ecosystem.

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** Conduct market research and competitive analysis
** to benchmark against industry-leading performance and development approaches.

+ Build  
** business cases, investment proposals, and ROI models
** to guide leadership decisions on platform evolution (e.g., Betterworks replacement, AI-enabled manager tools, promotion frameworks).

+ Establish  
** north-star metrics and success measures
** that link product outcomes to business and talent goals.

+ Identify opportunities to streamline or modernize the talent lifecycle experience through new capabilities, automation, AI, and data-driven insights.

+ Serve as a  
** thought leader
** with HR leadership on future-state talent development strategy and how technology should enable it.

+ Create and maintain a  
** strategic portfolio view** , ensuring alignment across performance management, talent mobility, career development, and related platforms.

+ Provide solution architecture guidance to integrate Workday with adjacent systems, ensuring data accuracy, process efficiency, and compliance.

+ Conduct system audits and performance tuning to ensure reliability, scalability, and optimal user experience.

+ Stay current on Workday releases, enhancements, and innovations; evaluate features for adoption through a strategic lens (e.g., long-term fit, cost-value trade-offs).

** Talent Performance & Development Impact*
* + Partner with People & Culture leaders to design performance philosophies, feedback loops, goal-setting frameworks, promotion processes, and calibration workflows within Workday or supplemental tools.

+ Use system data and analytics to identify gaps in performance tracking, career development, and talent readiness; influence workforce strategy using insights.

+ Ensure technical solutions reinforce the company's approach to performance, growth, and talent mobility.

** Cross-Functional Collaboration*
* + Collaborate with HRBPs, IT, analytics, compliance, and business leaders to design solutions that balance technical feasibility with organizational impact.

+ Serve as the strategic and technical point of contact during Workday projects and across the talent tech ecosystem.

+ Drive change management, stakeholder alignment, and enterprise adoption for new tools and capabilities.

+ Train and support internal teams on system functionality, strategic use cases, and best practices.

** Qualifications*
* + Proven experience as a Product Manager or system owner for Workday Talent modules (Performance, Goals, Feedback).

+ Experience…