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About the Team
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It's rewarding to work in a company where people truly believe in what they're doing. At Workday, we are committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business of enterprise applications. We work hard, and we are serious about what we do. We also like to have fun! In fact, fun is one of our company's core values. We put people first, celebrate diversity, drive innovation, and do good in the communities where we live and work.
The Growth organization is within our Product & Technology team. Our mission is to enable our customers to adopt Workday products and solutions in the most effective and efficient manner and with the highest quality to ensure lasting customer success. The GO Implementation Strategy team focuses on building, optimizing, and scaling deployment approaches, tooling, and automation so that Workday deployments are repeatable, high quality, and insight-driven across our ecosystem.
About the Role
This role is a primary driver of the end-to-end engagement, project management, testing, and training approach within GO deployments. You will define how Workday projects should be governed and executed from an engagement perspective, shaping the methods, tooling, and content that delivery teams and partners use to manage scope, schedule, risk, testing cycles, and end‑user readiness.
You are responsible for continuously improving project governance frameworks, testing strategies, and training approaches, and for leveraging deployment tools and automation to make these practices consistent, scalable, and insight‑driven. You will translate delivery learnings, escalations, and engagement health metrics into concrete improvements to our deployment playbooks, templates, and workflows, ensuring teams have clear guidance to run successful projects.
As a Principal Product Advisor, you lead complex, cross-functional initiatives with a high degree of autonomy, partner closely with senior stakeholders across Product, Services, and Sales, and act as a key subject matter expert for engagement management, project execution, testing quality, and training effectiveness across GO deployments.
About You
Basic Qualifications
Demonstrable expertise in enterprise SaaS project and engagement management, with a focus on delivery governance, risk management, and customer success for cloud implementations.
5+ years leading or advising on enterprise software deployments (preferably Workday or similar SaaS), with accountability for project plans, stakeholder alignment, timelines, and outcomes.
Significant experience designing and executing structured testing cycles (e.g., SIT, UAT, regression, cutover validation) and defining testing tools, processes, and acceptance criteria.
Strong hands-on experience with project and portfolio management tools, testing or QA tooling, and enablement/training platforms (e.g., work management tools, test management tools, learning or adoption platforms).
Other Qualifications
Highly adaptable; comfortable navigating evolving product and deployment strategies
Communicates and collaborates effectively with cross-functional partners (Product, Services, Engineering, Partners, and Customer teams).
Learns new technologies and related product areas quickly, including AI/ML-driven tools and emerging deployment automation capabilities.
Can handle multiple competing priorities and drive progress across parallel initiatives in a structured way.
Has strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, with a track record of breaking down ambiguous implementation challenges into scalable, tool- and workflow-based solutions.
Explains complex and technical concepts in simple, accessible terms to audiences with varying levels of technical knowledge.
Mentors consultants and delivery teams, provides guidance on deployment best practices, and can lead virtual teams or workstreams to deliver cross-organizational outcomes.
Comfortable using AI tools (such as generative AI assistants) to design or enhance implementation workflows, documentation, and training content.
Previous consulting experience, either as an internal consultant or with a consulting/software company, is a plus.
Willing to travel up to 25% of the time, as required by business needs.
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.VA.McLean (Tyson's Corner)
Primary Location Base Pay Range: $155,400 USD - $233,000 USD
Additional US Location(s) Base Pay Range: $140,600 USD - $249,700 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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Workday is an Equal Opportunity Employer including individuals with disabilities and protected veterans.
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