Workday Product Manager - Grants Management

Job title: Workday Product Manager - Grants Management

About the Role The Product Manager for Research Management is responsible for the strategic planning, functional optimization, and technical oversight of the organization’s Research Management functions within the Workday platform and its integrated applications. This role serves as the product lead for Workday Endowments and Grants modules, with heavily integrated process touchpoints across HCM, Supply Chain and Finance, ensuring that the platform is configured, maintained, and leveraged to meet evolving organizational requirements of Research Administration. This position also oversees multiple Workday Extend solutions for support of core Research compliance functions and participates in the full product lifecycle, including roadmap planning, release management, solution design, and production support as part of a larger product management team. The Product Manager, Research Management partners closely with business stakeholders, technical teams, and external vendors to deliver scalable, secure, and compliant solutions. This role also plays a key role in system testing, change management, and user enablement to maximize adoption and return on investment. A deep understanding of Workday's architecture, combined with strong leadership and analytical capabilities, is essential to this role.

What You'll Do

• Act as a strategic partner and primary application lead for the Research Management domain, building strong relationships with business stakeholders to understand goals, challenges, and workflows, and aligning Workday and related systems to support enterprise objectives.
• Lead end-to-end solution delivery across Workday and integrated platforms by gathering requirements, analyzing current-state processes, translating business needs into functional and technical specifications, and managing prioritization based on business value.
• Design, configure, and optimize solutions within Workday and supporting systems by managing business processes, reporting, security, and integrations, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture, compliance standards, and functional requirements.
• Oversee the full lifecycle of enhancement and release activities including planning, execution, testing (unit, regression, UAT), deployment, and adoption for Workday and connected systems, ensuring business continuity and user readiness.
• Drive process improvement and technology optimization by identifying automation opportunities, reducing manual work, improving data quality, and recommending system enhancements that improve efficiency, scalability, adoption and user experience across platforms.
• Provide advanced production support and uphold governance standards by resolving Tier 2/3 issues, performing root cause analysis, maintaining data integrity, and ensuring security, audit, and regulatory compliance across Workday and integrated systems.
• Enable user success and foster team growth by developing training materials and user enablement programs.

What We're Looking For

• Deep understanding of Workday architecture and related platform capabilities.
• Experience as a product lead / product management for Workday modules, especially Endowments and Grants.
• Strong leadership, analytical capabilities, and ability to partner with business stakeholders, technical teams, and external vendors.
• Experience with end-to-end lifecycle, including requirements gathering, design, development, testing (unit, regression, UAT), deployment, and adoption.
• Proficiency in automation opportunities and integrations, with focus on security, data integrity, and regulatory compliance.
• Excellent communication and change-management skills to drive user enablement and adoption.

Compensation & Benefits

• Salary: $141,500.00 - $153,600.00 per year.