Workday Product Suite Manager

Huron is a global consultancy that collaborates with clients to drive strategic growth and navigate change. The Workday Product Suite Manager will define and drive the strategy for scalable application development and digital adoption solutions, overseeing the entire product lifecycle from ideation to postproduction support.

Responsibilities:

• Define the product suite strategy and roadmap across multiple industries and functional domains
• Drive structured innovation intake, idea evaluation, prioritization, and business case development
• Identify emerging patterns and opportunities in Workday’s ecosystem, including AI-enabled product extensions
• Partner with developers and architects on Built on Workday application design and development
• Lead Workday aligned semiannual regression testing and release readiness cycles
• Partner with Marketing and Sales to shape positioning, messaging, packaging, and pricing inputs
• Support product demos, launch plans, enablement of assets, and Alliance aligned selling motions
• Monitor adoption, ARR/contribution, usage, and customer satisfaction metrics to inform future investment
• Collaborate with Support and Services to resolve product issues, refine SLAs, and ensure exceptional customer experience
• Prioritize enhancements, feature requests, and root cause corrections
• Maintain product documentation, compliance, and governance standards
• Partner closely with Industry Leadership, Solution Architects, Workday Alliances, and Engagement teams to align products with real market demand
• Influence without authority across global, matrixed teams
• Communicate product lifecycle strategy, roadmap, and outcomes to senior stakeholders and executives

Requirements:

• 5+ years of Workday experience across consulting, product, solutioning, or technical roles
• Proven software lifecycle management experience (discovery → design → build → test → release → support)
• Strong project/program management skills with the ability to manage multiple products and initiatives simultaneously
• Practical Workday Technical (Extend, Orchestrate, Agentic AI, Prism) knowledge/experience — architecture, patterns, governance, deployment
• Excellent communication skills: translating complexity into clarity for both technical and nontechnical audiences
• Experience developing, launching, or supporting Built on Workday or Workday native applications
• Product management experience in SaaS, enterprise applications, digital solutions, or internal tools
• Experience with application marketing, sales enablement, or product consulting
• Working knowledge of emerging technologies including AI augmented capabilities, automation, and data driven insights
• Industry familiarity (Healthcare, Higher Ed, FSI) grounding product decisions in real customer needs
• Ideal Candidate is detail oriented, proactive, leads like an entrepreneur, and has experience managing department operations