# Director of Strategic Initiatives

**Company**: Workday
**Location**: Reston, VA
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $193,400 USD - $290,200 USD
**Category**: Product Management
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Workday is seeking an experienced leader to serve as Director of Strategic Initiatives. This role will drive critical initiatives, ensure operational excellence, and strengthen communication within Workday and with the Federal customer base.

**Strategic Thinking & Communications**

- Act as a primary point of coordination with Workday teams to ensure Federal-specific commitments, risks, and dependencies are visible and well-managed.

- Partner with Engineering and Technical Product leadership to ensure Federal compliance, security, and mission requirements are reflected in technical roadmap and architecture decisions.

- Define and communicate the strategic direction of Workday's Government industry initiatives for Federal.

- Serve as the customer advocate within Workday's product organizations, engaging directly with customers to help shape future growth priorities.

- Partner with Federal Product & Compliance and Industry Strategy teams to serve as the Federal subject-matter authority.

**Long-Range Planning & Execution**

- Own budget planning and tracking for Federal strategic initiatives.

- Advise on and co-define Federal growth initiatives through strategic planning forums and financial reviews.

- Respond to shifting market dynamics by developing alternate strategic options for the Federal team.

- Support Product Lifecycle governance for Federal-specific capabilities.

- Partner with Workday's Partner organization to ensure Federal partners are aligned on strategy, enablement, and delivery expectations.

- Own portfolio-level visibility across Federal strategic initiatives.

- Coordinate and run key meetings across the Federal Industry vertical.

- Establish and own the internal communications strategy for the Product team and Government vertical.

- Build and nurture relationships with senior leaders across Engineering, Technical Product Management, Product & Technology, Product Delivery, Customer Experience, Marketing, and Sales.

**Requirements**

- 10+ years of proven success in a strategic, operational, or enablement capacity.

- Experience with large-scale cloud SaaS product, engineering, compliance, and platform teams.

- Deep understanding of product lifecycle, security, and infrastructure platforms.

- Bachelor's degree or higher required.

**Preferred Qualifications**

- Demonstrated experience working directly with customers, Customer Success, Implementation teams, and external partners.

- Proven ability to bring products to market on time with high customer satisfaction.

- Experience owning or supporting budget planning and financial tracking for a business unit, program, or initiative portfolio.

- Thoughtful people leader with a track record of building strong, cohesive matrixed teams.

- Strong cross-functional leadership skills, with the ability to listen and partner across organizations.

- Experience partnering with Engineering and Technical Product organizations on product lifecycle management and portfolio prioritization.

**Salary** The annualized base salary ranges for the primary location are $193,400 USD - $290,200 USD. For additional US locations, the base pay range is $175,000 USD - $310,900 USD.

## Skills

### Required
- strategic planning
- operational excellence
- communication
- cloud SaaS
- product lifecycle
- security
- infrastructure platforms

### Nice to have
- budget planning
- financial tracking
- people leadership
- cross-functional leadership
- product lifecycle management
- portfolio prioritization

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