Manager, Globalization Platform

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.

About the Team

The Globalization Platform team’s mission is to lead the internationalization and localization of Workday products and peripheral content. Our ambition is to provide a fit-for-purpose language experience to our customers by partnering with internal teams and through innovative, emerging technology capabilities.

Our platform team is composed of independent, autonomous, problem solvers across engineering and product management with freedom and support to experiment, celebrate growth and learning, and drive innovation, leading to a brighter Workday for all.

About the Role

We are looking for an experienced people-first, proactive Delivery Manager to provide the leadership, vision and execution strategy to ensure we build and ship high quality, reliable, secure, scalable solutions that drive great language experiences.

This is a “hands on” people-leader role with the opportunity to lead and develop a team of engineers, architects, dev ops and QA to focus on best-in-class solutions for globalizing Workday products. Your leadership promotes positive and constructive relationships with both customers and Workmates, and will help our business grow and scale more globally!

• Ensure that product delivery is high quality in both architecture design, code quality/standard methodologies. Ensure that we have happy customers.

• Align and organize the team to deliver on product vision and roadmap, in collaboration with product managers and other internal partner teams. 

• Ensure that the team has a high-level engagement through clear role definition, career growth and skill development opportunities, recognition and feedback. 

• Effective resource management, ensuring work is assigned effectively and is completed on a timely basis and that each development team has the vital resources, tools, and security access to effectively complete their tasks.

• Own and track key performance metrics to analyze trends and identify areas for improvement, and to take proactive steps to address them.

• Monitor adherence to agile methodologies and processes, making necessary adjustments for delivery needs and managing expectations across key partners.

About You

Basic Qualifications

• 6+ years working in engineering organizations with a user-centric product mindset and using common Agile methods (Scrum, Kanban, XP) and Lean methodologies

• 3+ years leading impactful engineering teams in internationalization and localization.

Other Qualifications

• 3+ years experience in XO and/or familiarity with Workday architecture (nice to have)

• Experience recruiting, growing, developing and mentoring large, diverse engineering teams developing and deploying SaaS applications

• Track record of ensuring that processes used to develop features are user-focused and are based on design-thinking principles

• Experience leading long-term technical initiatives in a fast paced environment

• Critical thinker capable of interpreting a range of relevant data sources

• Outstanding influencing, communication and prioritization skills