Senior Product Manager - Talent and Development

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.

• 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.

  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 defining multi-year product strategies
    , roadmaps, or portfolios (preferred for strategist scope).

  • Strong technical background with expertise in system architecture,…