Director of Strategic Initiatives, Growth (Principal Program Manager)

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About the Team

About the Role

The Director Strategic Initiatives is a high-impact team member within the Growth Organization reporting directly to the Chief of Staff to the SVP of Growth. You will serve as a vital extension of the SVPs office operating with autonomy to solve the companys most complex growth challenges and translate executive vision into market reality.

You will bridge the gap between internal operational excellence and external market presence. While you will work in lockstep with the Chief of Staff to ensure the Growth Orgs internal engine is running at peak performance a significant portion of your remit involves preparing content for external-facing engagement to tell Workdays growth story with authority and precision to customers partners and industry influencers.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner closely with the Chief of Staff to synchronize the SVPs strategic agenda with external market opportunities ensuring a seamless flow between internal strategy and external execution.

• Collaborate with Sales and Marketing to translate internal growth strategies into compelling external narratives that resonate with customers prospects and partners.

• Lead cross-functional product initiatives end-to-end moving from ambiguity to operational diligence to concrete ROI with minimal oversight.

• Define the frameworks and metrics that measure the success of strategic initiatives and communicate progress clearly.

• Navigate and influence leaders across Product Sales and Finance to align the Growth Orgs priorities in the broader corporate roadmap.

• Lead the creation of executive-level content (keynotes white papers customer-facing and board-level decks) that position the SVP and Workday as leaders.

About You

Basic Qualifications

• 1012 years of experience in business operations corporate strategy or management consulting specifically within the enterprise SaaS sector.

• 3 years of experience leading large-scale transformative initiatives that resulted in measurable growth or impact

Other Qualifications

• 2 years of experience in customer-facing or market-facing roles

• Exceptional executive presence

• Adept at taking nebulous high-level goals and architecting the structure and strategy required to achieve them.

• Able to drive alignment across competing internal interests without direct hierarchical authority.

• Experienced as translating complex market data and internal performance metrics into clear actionable executive narratives.

• Operates effectively in a high-pressure fast-evolving environment with very little day-to-day direction.

• Bachelors degree in Business Economics or a related field; MBA or equivalent advanced degree preferred.

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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