Your work days are brighter here.
At Workday, it all began with a conversation over breakfast. When our founders met at a sunny California diner, they came up with an idea to revolutionize the enterprise software market. And when we began to rise, one thing that really set us apart was our culture. A culture which was driven by our value of putting our people first. And ever since, the happiness, development, and contribution of every Workmate is central to who we are. Our Workmates believe a healthy employee-centric, collaborative culture is the essential mix of ingredients for success in business. That’s why we look after our people, communities and the planet while still being profitable. Feel encouraged to shine, however that manifests: you don’t need to hide who you are. You can feel the energy and the passion, it's what makes us unique. Inspired to make a brighter work day for all and transform with us to the next stage of our growth journey? Bring your brightest version of you and have a brighter work day here.
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About the Team
We are a proactive team within the Customer Support Organization that provides personalized support during the deployment period. We are dedicated to ensuring the Workday product delivers maximum performance, we guide our largest and most strategic customers through pre-deployment performance testing and business-critical activities in production. By coordinating internally to meet project deliverables on time, we help customers improve performance and effectively manage their operations.About the Role
The Production Readiness Manager (PRM) is a customer-facing role that combines technical expertise, project management, and customer relations. Assigned to large deployments or high-volume business-critical activities, the PRM ensures successful performance testing and transition to production. By collaborating with internal teams, the PRM drives the resolution of performance issues and advocates for customers.
As the "voice of the customer", the PRM takes full ownership of the engagement during deployment. This involves building strong relationships with customers and implementation partners, managing expectations, and using indirect influence to drive timely resolution of issues.
This role includes developing and managing technical project plans for strategic internal initiatives, coordinating resources, and ensuring project milestones are met on schedule.
Keys to success in this role include:
Technical competence and continuous interest in Workday products
Knowledge of Workday's Architecture and ability to demonstrate it on all engagements
Ability to use indirect influence and successfully engage with Senior Leadership, Technical, and Functional staff to overcome challenges and drive issues to resolution
Outstanding time management and prioritizations skills
Hyper-attention to detail
Owning and driving customer escalations for blocking issues
Effectively using sound business judgement, technical risk assessment and mitigation planning, and coordinate team efforts to solve problems
Ability to thrive with ambiguity and manage challenges in a fast-paced environment
Proficiency in developing, maintaining, and communicating technical project schedules and status updates to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Experience managing technical scope and change control within a project context.
Pride in producing quality results!
About You
You enjoy working closely with others, building strong cross-functional relationships and having some laughs along the way! You create a safe teamwork environment, have a passion for learning, sharing new insights and respectfully challenging the status quo. You take a non-dogmatic, framework-agnostic approach to learning and project work - drawing from the most relevant practices and patterns in a thoughtful way to produce great outcomes. You are resourceful and able to act independently even in uncertain scenarios.
You are ambitious and self-driven with passion for strong customer relations and can turn complex technical architecture into a simple and engaging storytelling experience. You accurately report status and skilfully manage issues, risks, and concerns. You effectively implement change management strategies to facilitate smooth adoption of new processes or initiatives. You understand the technical interdependencies within complex system deployments and can proactively identify and manage potential technical roadblocks.
4+ years of experience in product support, customer success, account management or consulting for a complex B2B enterprise software solution with a solid grasp of underlying technologies
4+ years of experience successfully implementing or managing a complex SaaS solution and working with large enterprise accounts
7+ years of experience in product support, customer success, account management or consulting for a complex B2B enterprise software solution with a solid grasp of underlying technologies
7+ years of experience successfully implementing or managing a complex SaaS solution and working with large enterprise accounts
Demonstrated ability to understand and successfully explain technical architecture.
Project management experience; ability to balance multiple initiatives and manage competing priorities efficiently. Formal project management training or certification (e.g., PMP, Agile certifications) is a plus, particularly in a technical context.
Excellent verbal, presentation and communication skills, including the ability to chair meetings and clearly articulate technical project status and risks to executive audiences.
Demonstrated leadership skills to influence, interact and collaborate with senior leaders as well as technical resources, internally and externally.
Excellent organization, communication and presentation skills
Strong analytical and problem solving skills both technically and functionally.
Crisis management experience is a plus.
Ability to learn new products quickly through instruction and self-training.
Demonstrated ability to handle day-to-day work challenges confidently and to adjust to shifting priorities.
Comfortable in a fast-paced process-focused environment.
Experience with HR, Time Tracking, Recruiting, Financials or Payroll applications (preferably Workday).
Proven ability to manage technical project deliverables, timelines, and resources in a software deployment or production support environment.
Experience with technical project management tools and methodologies (e.g., Jira, Asana, Waterfall, Agile) as applied to technical initiatives.
Our Approach to Flexible Work
With Flex Work, we’re combining the best of both worlds: in-person time and remote. Our approach enables our teams to deepen connections, maintain a strong community, and do their best work. We know that flexibility can take shape in many ways, so rather than a number of required days in-office each week, we simply spend at least half (50%) of our time each quarter in the office or in the field with our customers, prospects, and partners (depending on role). This means you'll have the freedom to create a flexible schedule that caters to your business, team, and personal needs, while being intentional to make the most of time spent together. Those in our remote "home office" roles also have the opportunity to come together in our offices for important moments that matter.
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