Senior Product Manager - Talent and Development

Overview

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.

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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.

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

• 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.

• Proven experience as a Product Manager or system owner for Workday Talent modules (Performance, Goals, Feedback).
• Experience defining multi-year product strategies, roadmaps, or portfolios (preferred for strategist scope).
• Strong technical background with expertise in system architecture, integrations, and analytics.
• Ability to translate talent management strategies into scalable technical and product solutions.
• Exceptional communication and executive influence skills, with a track record of driving cross-functional alignment.
• Strong analytical skills with experience conducting system audits and leveraging data for decision-making.
• Background in talent development, performance management, or HR technology strategy is a plus.

Intuit provides a competitive compensation package with a strong pay for performance rewards approach. This position may be eligible for a cash bonus, equity rewards and benefits, in accordance with our applicable plans and programs (see more about our compensation and benefits at Intuit®: Careers | Benefits). Pay offered is based on factors such as job-related…