Senior Lead Product Owner, Workday Payroll

Wells Fargo - West Des Moines, IA

Full-time - Senior

West Des Moines, IA

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About the position

Wells Fargo is seeking a Senior Lead Product Owner for Workday Payroll to join the Human Resources (HR) Transformation & Products Team. This role presents an exciting opportunity to collaborate with HR and business leaders across the organization to address complex challenges and develop effective solutions. The individual in this position will be responsible for the vision, roadmap, and delivery of the US Payroll product. A strong emphasis is placed on collaboration, exceptional interpersonal skills, and critical thinking abilities. Success in this role requires the capacity to function as a hands-on independent contributor while also leveraging leadership skills to build credibility and direct matrixed resources in a dynamic and fast-paced environment. In this role, the Senior Lead Product Owner will advise leadership on developing or influencing business plans and requirements, directing product design and implementation for complex HR business and technical needs. The individual will oversee product management and strategic focus for the most technical and diverse HR products and services. They will lead the strategy and resolution of unique challenges that require a deep understanding of potential synergies and opportunities across the company. The role involves delivering long-term, large-scale solutions that consider global market dynamics, regulatory impacts, and risk management. The Senior Lead Product Owner will articulate the Payroll product vision, define scope, prioritize the backlog, and provide direction for teams to design, develop, and deliver technology and processes for updating and upgrading technologies and vendor relationships. They will manage processes to ensure that the product consistently delivers value, adjusting plans in response to financial, control, or process roadblocks. The individual will also inspect pre-release progress, recommend changes, and ensure timelines are met, while developing and monitoring the product roadmap and key performance indicators to identify improvement opportunities and ensure compliance with regulations and policies. Engaging with leaders, stakeholders, subject matter experts, scrum masters, project managers, and delivery teams across the company is essential to successfully execute work with quality and on time.

Responsibilities

• Advise leadership to develop or influence business plans and business requirements, directing product design and implementation for complex HR business and technical needs.
• Oversee overall product management and strategic focus for the most technical, complex, and diverse HR products and services.
• Lead the strategy and resolution of complex and unique challenges requiring in-depth understanding of potential synergies and opportunities companywide.
• Deliver solutions that are long-term, large scale, and require consideration of global market dynamics, trends, regulatory impact, and risk management.
• Provide vision, direction, and expertise to leadership on implementing innovative and significant business solutions that are strategically focused.
• Articulate the Payroll product vision, define scope, prioritize backlog, establish goals, and provide direction for teams to design, develop, and deliver technology and processes for updating, upgrading technologies and vendor relationships.
• Manage processes and routines needed to ensure that the product predictably delivers value, adjusting planning in situations that may include financial, control, or process roadblocks.
• Inspect pre-release progress, recommend changes, and ensure timelines are met.
• Develop and monitor product roadmap and key performance indicators, identify improvement opportunities, and ensure regulatory and policy compliance.
• Ensure cross-functional dependencies and business readiness needs are articulated, managed, and addressed to successfully execute work with quality and on-time.
• Engage with leaders, stakeholders, subject matter experts, scrum masters, project managers and delivery team companywide.
• Serve as an expert advisor to executives on complex, visible, and diverse solutions.

Requirements

• 7+ years of Product Management, product development, strategic planning, process management, change delivery, or agile product owner experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education.
• 7+ years of HR Systems experience (e.g., Workday, Peoplesoft, SAP, ServiceNow HRSD, Oracle, or similar) in a global environment with multiple integrations.
• 7+ years of Workday Payroll experience leading a product team.
• 5+ years of experience with SaaS based payroll vendors (e.g., ADP, Earned Wage Access, etc.).
• Experience implementing Workday Payroll Module in US and Canada (international) preferred.
• 3+ years of experience with ServiceNow HR Service Delivery (HRSD).
• Experience consulting, implementing, and owning Human Resource products and tools.
• Experience leading scrum teams in an Agile environment and strong Agile knowledge.
• Experience influencing and managing cross-functional work streams to execute initiatives with quality and on-time.
• Experience leading and facilitating workshops and discussions to effectively gather requirements and achieve a detailed understanding of client objectives and desired outcomes.
• Experience integrating systems with third-party service vendors.