Workday Time & Absence Product Manager

Requirements:

• At least 3 years of experience supporting Workday Time Tracking and Absence Management.
• Experience as a Product Manager, Product Owner, HR Technology Lead, or Senior Business Systems Analyst.
• Hands-on expertise configuring Workday.
• Demonstrated experience gathering requirements and designing scalable solutions.
• Experience leading UAT, integration testing, regression testing, and production deployments.
• Strong understanding of payroll impacts, leave administration, workforce compliance, FMLA, state leave programs, and workforce operations.
• Must be willing and able to work on a W-2 basis.

Responsibilities:

• Define and manage the strategy, roadmap, and backlog for Workday Time Tracking, Absence Management, Leave Management, and Workforce Scheduling.
• Collaborate with HR, Payroll, Operations, Compliance, and Technology to shape future workforce experiences.
• Convert business objectives into measurable outcomes, prioritized initiatives, and multi-quarter roadmaps.
• Identify and assess opportunities to apply AI, machine learning, generative AI, and automation to workforce processes.
• Design AI-enabled solutions for leave case management, scheduling assistance, absence trend prediction, compliance monitoring, policy interpretation, and employee self-service.
• Work with enterprise AI teams to pilot and scale intelligent workforce solutions.
• Act as product owner and functional subject matter expert for Time Tracking, Absence, Leave Administration, Eligibility Rules, Accruals, Time Calculations, Holiday Calendars, Work Schedules, and Leave Compliance Programs.
• Configure and maintain Workday business processes, validations, eligibility rules, accruals, time entry, and absence plans.
• Lead discovery sessions, requirements workshops, and design reviews; translate needs into user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Own testing strategy and delivery across unit, system integration, UAT, regression, and production validation.
• Maintain product backlogs and release plans, and coordinate implementations across HR, Payroll, IT, and partners.
• Support Workday upgrades, feature releases, and ongoing optimization.
• Establish KPIs and success measures using Workday reporting, calculated fields, dashboards, and analytics.
• Identify predictive analytics and AI-generated insights to improve workforce planning and absence management.

Technologies:

• AI
• Support
• Machine Learning
• Product Manager
• Product Owner

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This is a remote Workday Time & Absence Product Manager opportunity with our client, combining product management with Workday configuration, testing, release management, and solution design to modernize workforce processes and improve compliance and employee and manager experiences. The W-2 hourly pay range is $75–$85. Eligible Eliassen Group employees regularly scheduled for at least 30 hours per week may receive medical, dental, vision, pre-tax accounts, voluntary benefits including life and disability insurance, a 401(k) with matching, and sick time where required by law. We are a strategic consulting firm delivering technology, business advisory, and life sciences solutions, and have spent nearly 40 years helping clients achieve meaningful outcomes. We are committed to an inclusive workplace and equal opportunity in employment. We also offer a referral program with a potential $1,000 referral payment for eligible referrals.

last updated 43 week of 2026