Product Manager - Workday

McGough is a respected partner that brings six generations of experience to high profile, unique and complex construction projects. We take great pride in our people and their extraordinary expertise in planning, development, construction and facility management. McGough employee tenure reflects the commitment and pride we share in our work. Ask anyone who knows us - the caliber of our people sets us apart.

WORKDAY PRODUCT MANAGER

The Workday Product Manager acts as the business-side owner of McGough's Workday ecosystem, ensuring the platform drives measurable business outcomes across Core HCM, Talent Acquisition, Talent Management, Learning, Advanced Compensation, Workforce Management and Employee Engagement. This role partners closely with HR leadership, IT/IS, and Program Management to define, deliver, and continuously improve Workday capabilities that align with organizational and people strategy.

This individual defines business justification for investments, prioritizes the roadmap, monitors adoption and ROI, and acts as the bridge between employees, people managers, HR stakeholders, executive sponsors, and technical delivery teams. They are accountable for ensuring Workday remains stable, compliant, relevant, and value-generating long after deployment. This role maintains awareness of how Workday fits within broader business capabilities and adjacent systems, and collaborates with domain-level leadership to support coherent, cross-platform outcomes.

In addition to roadmap ownership and optimization, this role is responsible for defining, developing and delivering the enablement strategy for Workday, including hands-on training and capability development to ensure employees, managers, and HR teams can effectively adopt and sustain Workday-driven processes.

Qualifications:

Required:

• 7+ years of experience in digital product management, HCM platform ownership, or enterprise application strategy.
• 3+ years with Workday platform.
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams to define and deliver digital tools that align with business and workforce needs.
• Demonstrated success in building and managing a business-focused roadmap for enterprise platforms.
• Experience partnering with IT and Deployment Program Managers to define scope, success metrics, and delivery milestones.
• Strong communication, stakeholder engagement, and organizational influence skills.

Preferred:

• Background in HR operations, talent management, learning management, or workforce planning.
• Systems-oriented thinking with awareness of cross-platform dependencies and downstream impacts.
• Familiarity with Agile delivery models, digital transformation initiatives, and organizational change management.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Business Administration, Human Resources or related fields.

Skills:

• Strategic thinker with tactical execution capability, able to define and defend investment priorities.
• Strong collaboration and facilitation skills; able to drive clarity and accountability across HR, IT, and business teams.
• Comfortable managing ambiguity, prioritization, and organizational change.
• Comfortable designing and delivering hands-on training and enablement for employees and managers.
• Strong analytical capability-able to define, track, and communicate performance and adoption metrics.
• Technically fluent enough to challenge assumptions and validate feasibility with IT and vendors.
• Experience with project and product management tools (JIRA, Confluence, Smartsheet, MS Project, etc.).
• Clear, confident communicator with executive presence and attention to detail.

Office and Travel:

• Position is based at McGough's headquarters in Roseville, MN.
• Travel is expected to be up to 20% for various training or team building activities. Additional travel to various national office locations may be required as determined by the individual and their manager.

Responsibilities and Tasks:

Program Leadership and Enablement:

• Define, plan, and execute the Workday product roadmap across HR, talent, learning, and workforce management domains.
• Partner with HR leadership, IT, and business stakeholders to establish product goals, deliverables, and KPIs.
• Lead operational readiness and change enablement for new Workday modules, enhancements, and releases.
• Manage dependencies, risks, and communication across all Workday-related initiatives.
• Track platform performance through defined metrics (adoption, usage, data quality, user satisfaction).
• Establish platform KPIs tied to workforce outcomes, compliance, and operational efficiency.
• Manage third-party vendors and service providers to ensure accountability to scope and SOWs.
• Partner with domain-level leadership to ensure Workday roadmap decisions support coherent, end-to-end people capabilities.

Deployment Partnership:

• Partner with HR leaders and business stakeholders during rollout to ensure requirements, usage expectations, and training needs are understood and incorporated.
• Design and deliver training programs, office hours, and self-service learning paths for employees, managers, and HR partners.
• Track progress, risks, and changes through deployment phases; communicate updates to leadership.
• Participate actively in deployment readiness, including user preparedness and training timing.
• Serve as a business escalation point and decision-maker for key deployment tradeoffs.

Product Enablement & Capability Development:

• Partner with HR leaders and business stakeholders during rollout to ensure requirements, usage expectations, and training needs are understood and incorporated.
• Design and deliver training programs, office hours, and self-service learning paths for employees, managers, and HR partners.
• Track progress, risks, and changes through deployment phases; communicate updates to leadership.
• Participate actively in deployment readiness, including user preparedness and training timing.
• Balance platform optimization against domain-level tradeoffs
• Serve as a business escalation point and decision-maker for key deployment tradeoffs.

Operational Excellence:

• Champion Workday-specific digital delivery standards and documentation practices for HR technology.
• Partner with Digital Operations Leadership to align with McGough's project governance model.
• Drive continuous improvement in deployment and enhancement processes to improve velocity, quality, and stability.
• Collaborate with vendors and delivery partners to ensure solutions align with HR needs and enablement goals.

Physical Requirements:

The physical requirements listed here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Position involves sitting for extended periods of time at employee's workstation and during meetings as well as while traveling, either by plane or car. Employee needs to be able to lift to 20 pounds as frequently as needed to move objects; dexterity to write and manipulate computer keyboard and mouse; ability to hear and speak clearly; and ability to distinguish between colors on graphs and charts.

Employee may be required to visit construction jobsites which may expose the employee to dirt, dust, uneven surfaces, outdoor weather conditions and extreme temperatures.

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In alignment with our commitment to pay transparency, the base salary range for this position is $138,000 to $163,000, excluding fringe benefits or potential bonuses. If you join McGough, your final base salary will be determined by several factors, including geography, location, skills, education, and experience. Furthermore, we place significant value on pay equity among our current team members as part of any final job offer.

Please note that the range provided above reflects the hiring range for this role. Hiring near the top end of this range would be atypical, as we aim to allow room for future salary growth. Additionally, McGough offers a comprehensive compensation and benefits package. This includes insurance coverage for medical, dental, vision, life, and disability. We also provide generous retirement plans, voluntary benefit plans, parental leave, substantial paid time off, and holiday pay.

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