Product Manager, Authentication

Workday Workday · Enterprise · Dublin, Ireland

Product Manager for Workday's Authentication product, focusing on Zero Trust principles, multi-factor and passwordless authentication, and identity governance. The role involves defining product vision, strategy, and roadmap, collaborating with various teams, and driving solution design for SaaS enterprise software.

What you'd actually do

  1. Collaborate with Workday’s business Product Owners, customers, partners, development teams including architecture, consultants, operations, and product teams to understand their desired business outcomes and priorities.
  2. Work closely with product development teams through design, development, testing, release, and maintenance of the product to ensure its quality and successful delivery on-time.
  3. Define the product vision, strategy and roadmap, including the underlying technical capabilities.
  4. Drive solution design for each release based on user requirements, technical architecture, and business outcomes.
  5. Guide the product teams towards high value OKRs.

Skills

Required

  • product management
  • SaaS
  • cloud-based enterprise software
  • Business Influence
  • Cross-Team Collaboration
  • Customer Advocate
  • Customer Empathy
  • Data Analysis
  • Decision Making
  • Domain Knowledge of the authentication industry
  • multi-factor authentication
  • passwordless authentication
  • Single-Sign-On
  • Research
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Strategic Thinking

Nice to have

  • identity governance tools
  • Zero Trust principles

What the JD emphasized

  • 5+ years experience in product management, defining and delivering SaaS and/or cloud-based enterprise software products or features.
  • Proven ability to exert Business Influence within product teams and with stakeholders by aligning them behind common goals and outcome.
  • Strong skills in Cross-Team Collaboration, effectively leading and working with Engineering and other Product Manager to define and deliver product features.
  • Proven ability to be a strong Customer Advocate, deeply understanding and representing customer needs in product strategy and decisions through customer engagement.
  • Deep understanding of Customer Empathy, proactively seeking and understanding customer pain points to drive product development and improve user experience by owning customer engagement in Community, incoming customer reported bugs, and design partner group discussions.
  • Solid skills in Data Analysis, define success metrics and derive actionable insights for product strategy and prioritization..
  • Solid Decision Making skills in complex product-related matters, balancing user needs, business goals, and technical feasibility, and effectively communicating those decisions.
  • Good Domain Knowledge of the authentication industry and market, with a strong understanding of multi-factor, passwordless, and Single-Sign-On authentication solutions.
  • Proven ability to conduct Research to inform product strategy, identify opportunities, and understand user behavior through market and competitive analysis, and user research.
  • Strong skills in Stakeholder Management, effectively communicating with, influencing, and managing expectations of development team, leadership team and cross team leadership and peers.
  • Developing Strategic Thinking skills, contributing to the long-term vision and direction of the product and identifying potential opportunities by influencing product roadmap.