Principal Product Operations Lead

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About the Team

The Enterprise Technology Services team builds and scales Workday’s foundational technology, maximizing Workmates’ impact and transforming how we work. As Customer Zero, we inspire customers and empower Workmates through our Workday on Workday (WoW) practice. Beyond Workday, we also enable business operations through our critical support for corporate applications. We deliver core infrastructure services, covering network, cloud, platforms, and AI driven solutions that bring business outcomes to life. Enterprise Technology Services (ETS) is a core team within Business Technology, which falls within Workday's Product & Technology organization.

About the Role

The Principal Product Operations Lead is a high-visibility role supporting the entire Enterprise Technology Services (ETS) team, building and optimizing the "engine" behind our technology solution organization. You will be responsible for the health of our delivery lifecycle, ensuring our teams operate within a scalable and efficient operating model, standardizing Agile practices across the organization, and leveraging data-driven insights to fuel efficiency. This role is the bridge between strategy and execution, facilitating critical ceremonies like Program Increment (PI) Planning to provide senior leadership with the visibility needed to make informed investment decisions while empowering our product "pods" with the tools and processes they need to move fast.

Key Responsibilities:

• Operational Excellence: Design, implement, and evolve a standardized Agile operating model across the technology organization to improve velocity, predictability, and quality of delivery.

• Product Delivery Governance: Lead end-to-end accountability for the product delivery framework, ensuring seamless handoffs between the Enterprise Technology Services organization and our business partners. .

• Data & Insights (Dashboarding): Build and maintain automated performance dashboards that track delivery KPIs to inform executive decision-making.

• Tooling Strategy: Act as the internal champion for the Jira/Atlassian suite, ensuring workflows are optimized for transparency, reporting, and cross-functional collaboration.

• Strategic Alignment: Work with senior leadership to translate high-level business strategy into actionable product roadmaps; proactively identify gaps, risks, and resource bottlenecks.

• Communication: Present workstream health, delivery milestones, and operational findings to the executive team, providing clear recommendations for process pivots.

About You

Basic Qualifications:

• 10+ years of experience in Product Operations, Strategic Program Management, or Management Consulting within a high-growth SaaS environment.

• 10+ years of professional experience in strategic project directing with Jira workflow without losing momentum.

• 10+ years of experience in data visualization and dashboarding (e.g., Tableau, PowerBI, or Jira Dashboards) to track product health.

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to influence C-suite stakeholders and lead through "soft power" across cross-functional teams.

• Proven ability to architect Jira environments, including advanced dashboarding custom workflows, and integration with BI tools.

• Extensive experience scaling Agile/Scrum/Kanban frameworks within large, complex product organizations.

• Familiarity with Workday’s product suite and ecosystem

• BS / BA / MS / MA degree or equivalent work experience.

Workday Pay Transparency Statement

The annualized base salary ranges for the primary location and any additional locations are listed below.  Workday pay ranges vary based on work location. As a part of the total compensation package, this role may be eligible for the Workday Bonus Plan or a role-specific commission/bonus, as well as annual refresh stock grants. Recruiters can share more detail during the hiring process. Each candidate’s compensation offer will be based on multiple factors including, but not limited to, geography, experience, skills, job duties, and business need, among other things. For more information regarding Workday’s comprehensive benefits, please click here.

Primary Location: USA.GA.Atlanta
 

Primary Location Base Pay Range: $150,900 USD - $226,300 USD
 

Additional US Location(s) Base Pay Range: $143,400 USD - $254,600 USD

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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