# Strategy & Business Initiatives Professional

**Company**: Workday
**Location**: Pleasanton, CA
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $198,000 USD - $297,000 USD
**Category**: Operations
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are looking for an exceptional professional to join the small team responsible for working directly with C-level leaders and Executive Committee members to shape and advance the company's most critical priorities.

**Key Responsibilities:**

- Partner with the Executive Committee and functional leaders to develop and implement Workday's strategy and key priorities

- Lead or contribute to high-priority initiatives from framing through execution

- Conduct market, competitive, and financial analysis to identify new growth and monetization opportunities

- Develop executive-ready narratives, frameworks, and presentations for senior leadership and the Board

- Build strategic capabilities, processes, and tools that scale with Workday's growth

**Basic Qualifications:**

- 7+ years of experience in tech strategy, strategy consulting, or SaaS (or a combination of these)

- Strategic thinking: ability to identify, evaluate, and prioritize new vectors of growth and monetization opportunities within the software industry, and develop pragmatic strategies to capture them

- Cross-functional collaboration: ability to work with a diverse set of functional and business leaders, establish credibility at the executive level, and drive decisions forward; builds and maintains strong relationships with key stakeholders

- Problem-solving: ability to define complex challenges, create structured approaches to solving them, and collaborate effectively to develop solutions

- Communication skills: ability to develop clear, compelling, executive-level narratives and deliver tailored messages grounded in rapport and credibility across the organization

- Ability to thrive in a dynamic, results-oriented environment aligned with Workday's culture and values

**Preferred Qualifications:**

- Proven experience working in tech strategy

- Background in Management Consulting preferred

- Strong organizational, communication, presentation, and analytical skills

- Results-oriented mindset, with a record of driving end-to-end projects with complete, accurate, and timely delivery of analyses and project objectives

**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.

Primary Location: USA.CA.Pleasanton Primary Location Base Pay Range: $198,000 USD - $297,000 USD Additional US Location(s) Base Pay Range: $167,200 USD - $297,000 USD

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## Skills

### Required
- tech strategy
- strategy consulting
- SaaS
- strategic thinking
- cross-functional collaboration
- problem-solving
- communication skills

### Nice to have
- Management Consulting
- organizational skills
- analytical skills
- presentation skills

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