Vice President, Software Development Engineering (Workday Extend)

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About the Team

About the Role

This is an executive role with direct P&L influence. The successful candidate will:

Technical Leadership

• Executive Leadership & Organizational Scaling: Lead and scale a global multi-site organization of engineering managers architects and software engineers of approximately 100. Foster a culture of technical excellence accountability speed and continuous learning.

• Market Leadership & Architecture Vision: Define and execute a multi-year technical vision for Workday Extend empowering developers to innovate with AI while ensuring the platform remains highly available secure and scalable.

• High-Quality Delivery at Scale: Oversee the end-to-end development launch and post-launch support for all Workday Extend platform capabilities ensuring they meet rigorous enterprise standards for security reliability and performance.

• Talent Strategy & Development: Recruit mentor and retain world-class engineering and management talent. Develop the organizations technical and leadership capabilities to meet long-term strategic growth objectives.

Drive Business Success & Operational Rigor

• Drive Revenue Enablement: Partner closely with Product Strategy and GTM to align the engineering roadmap with strategic market opportunities directly enabling $XXX Million in annual recurring revenue (ARR) targets for Workday Extend.

• Own the Technical P&L Contribution: Be directly accountable for the Workday Extend platforms financial success ensuring engineering investment translates into platform features that drive customer adoption recurring revenue and superior gross margins.

• Operational Stewardship: Establish key performance indicators (KPIs) and service level objectives (SLOs) that directly map engineering productivity and operational costs to the overall profitability and customer satisfaction metrics of Workday Extend.

• Cross-Functional Executive Collaboration: Serve as the engineering face of Workday Extend regularly presenting platform strategy progress and business impact to C-suite executives key customers and partners and at industry events. Drive architectural consensus and technology adoption across Workday platform teams.

About You

The ideal candidate is an experienced technology executive with a proven track record of scaling engineering organizations that have directly contributed to substantial revenue growth in the cloud or SaaS industry. You are a builder an operational leader and a strategic partner to the business.

• Executive Leadership: 15 years of software engineering experience including 5 years as a Director or VP leading large (100 people) global multi-disciplinary platform engineering teams with people managers reporting to you.

• Cloud & Platform Expertise: Deep verifiable experience in designing launching and operating enterprise-class large-scale distributed systems and cloud platforms. Experience building and launching developer products/platforms is highly desirable.

• Business Acumen: Demonstrated history of collaborating with Product Management to define roadmaps that successfully balance innovation technical debt and direct business/revenue objectives.

• Education: BS in Computer Science or a related field; a Graduate Degree (MS or MBA) is highly desirable.

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 candidates 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 Workdays comprehensive benefits please click here.

Our Approach to Flexible Work

With Flex Work were 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 youll 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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