Senior Product Advisor Manager, oCIO

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About the Team

About Product Acceleration & Optimization (PAO)
PAO is a high-impact team within Workday’s Product & Technology (P&T) organization, dedicated to accelerating delivery and maximizing customer value. Our mission is to reduce the cost and complexity of deployment by advancing our deployment tooling, operationalizing AI-powered assistants and agents, and equipping the delivery ecosystem with the information and resources needed to launch new products, acquisitions, and features effectively. We work closely with strategic customers and high-priority pursuits to break down barriers to selling, deploying, and expanding the value of Workday across our global customer base.

About the Role

About the Role: Senior Product Advisor Manager, oCIO

We’re seeking a strategic, collaborative, and forward-thinking Senior Product Advisor Manager to lead a high-performing team focused on reducing deployment costs, accelerating adoption of new innovations, and enabling successful outcomes for Workday’s most strategic customers. This role sits at the intersection of product strategy, customer success, and innovation delivery—with a focus on Workday Extend and Orchestrate.

As the Senior Product Advisor Manager, you will guide a team that:

• Drives down deployment costs by improving tooling, activating AI-powered deployment assistants and agents, and shaping the product roadmap based on real-world deployment insights.
• Partners closely with early adopters, strategic customers, and high-stakes sales pursuits to design solutions and ensure deployment success.
• Influences product development by bringing deployment-centric feedback into the design process to improve scalability, configurability, and time-to-value.
• Builds and shares scalable deployment best practices for new products, acquisitions, and features to empower the broader Workday ecosystem.
• Aligns and coordinates across key stakeholder groups including Product Management, Services, Education, Customer Support, Strategy, and Pre-Sales.

This is a rare opportunity to lead a cross-functional team operating at the heart of Workday’s product acceleration strategy—where your leadership will have direct impact on customer satisfaction, cost efficiency, and the pace of innovation delivery.

About You

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years deployment, solutions development, or technical consulting experience with Workday products.

• Demonstrable domain expertise in Workday Extend or Orchestrate.  

• Excellent business acumen and verbal and written communication skills.  

• Ability to travel 10-20% under normal conditions.  

Other Qualifications

• Experience in an agile work environment.  

• Strong problem-solving and stakeholder management skills.  

• Ability to collaborate with multiple partners across a diverse organization.  

• Experience in solutions development and technical consulting.

• Capacity to consolidate and prioritize input from multiple sources.  

• Prior people leadership experience preferred.

Our Approach to Flexible Work
 

With Flex Work, we’re combining the best of both worlds: in-person time and remote. Our approach enables our teams to deepen connections, maintain a strong community, and do their best work. We know that flexibility can take shape in many ways, so rather than a number of required days in-office each week, we simply spend at least half (50%) of our time each quarter in the office or in the field with our customers, prospects, and partners (depending on role). This means you'll have the freedom to create a flexible schedule that caters to your business, team, and personal needs, while being intentional to make the most of time spent together. Those in our remote "home office" roles also have the opportunity to come together in our offices for important moments that matter.

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