Workday Product Owner

Overview

**Ignite Transformation: Shape the Future of Employee Experience with a Leading Financial Services Innovator!**

Are you a strategic visionary with a passion for leveraging technology to empower people? Aquent is partnering with a prominent and innovative leader in the financial services industry, a company dedicated to transforming how individuals and businesses achieve their financial goals. This is your chance to make a profound impact, driving the evolution of critical HR technology platforms that directly enhance the employee experience and fuel organizational growth. Join a forward-thinking team where your expertise will directly influence strategic initiatives and foster a culture of continuous improvement.

As a Workday Product Owner, you will play a key role in transforming how we deliver value to our employees and business partners. You will be responsible for executing the vision, roadmap, and delivery of Workday capabilities and optimization efforts related to various modules in Workday including Core HCM, and other modules as required. You’ll partner closely with HR leadership,  Technology Services (STS), and business stakeholders to ensure our Workday solution supports HR strategies, enhances the employee experience, and scales with the organization’s growth. While this role leverages your technical Workday expertise, it offers the opportunity to focus on strategic impact rather than hands-on development or configuration within Workday.

Key Responsibilities:
• Contribute to a high-performing team of HR product managers, fostering a culture of innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Execute the product strategy & roadmap for Workday’s Core HCM Module. Work can also span across capabilities such as time and attendance, payroll, benefits, or advanced compensation.
• Translate complex business needs into actionable deliverables, including technical specifications, epics, and user stories for agile development teams.
• Partner cross-functionally with Total Rewards and Technology Services (STS) to design and maintain seamless integrations with downstream systems, ensuring data integrity.
• Stay abreast of Workday releases and feature previews, proactively assessing impact and championing the adoption of relevant enhancements.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives by analyzing system performance, gathering user feedback, and optimizing process efficiency.
• Serve as the primary subject matter expert (SME) and escalation point for all Workday Compensation-related issues.
What You Have
Required Qualifications:
• 4 years of technical Workday expertise with HCM, including core functions such as managing personal data, organization structure, business processes, and security.
• Proven success as a Product Owner for technology solutions.
Experience working on product roadmaps, prioritization frameworks, and in agile delivery practices.
• Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, HR Technology, or related field.

Preferred Qualifications:
• Proven success aligning product strategy with HR technology and business needs.
• Deep understanding of HR processes and experience delivering Workday-based solutions.
• Ability to navigate complex organizational changes and influence stakeholders at all levels.
• Workday integration hands-on experience a plus.

Skills & Competencies:
• Excellent communication
• Strategic thinker focused on delivering high-quality outcomes.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Passion for innovation, transformation and continuous improvement.
• Exceptional collaboration, influencing and interpersonal skills.
• Comfortable operating in an agile, fast-paced, and dynamic environment.

**About Aquent Talent:**

Aquent Talent connects the best talent in marketing, creative, and design with the world’s biggest brands. Our eligible talent get access to amazing benefits like subsidized health, vision, and dental plans, paid sick leave, and retirement plans with a match. More information on our awesome benefits!

Aquent is an equal-opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics. We’re about creating an inclusive environment—one where different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives are valued, and everyone can contribute, grow their careers, and thrive.