Workday is looking for a leader to define a vision, strategic objectives, and outcomes for delivering insights that support every product area, aligning with cross-organizational leaders to define and deliver on a comprehensive, 360 view of prospects, customers, and users.
Requirements
- 15+ years industry experience in human-centered design or research and +7 years as a people leader
- Must have Director level leadership experience
- Success leading high-performing research teams and attracting top talent to deliver high-quality insights
- Demonstrated success in ensuring a research team delivers strategic business value
- Deep experience leading teams who deliver both qualitative and quantitative research insights, spanning generative and evaluative research efforts
- Ability to attract and retain talent
- Strategic systems thinker
Responsibilities
- defining a vision, strategic objectives, and outcomes for delivering insights that support every product area
- play a key role in defining how we effectively design and deliver effective experiences for all user types
- align with cross-organizational leaders to define and deliver on a comprehensive, 360 view of prospects, customers, and users
- ensure all Workmates have access to reliable, easy to find and understand insights
- Success leading high-performing research teams and attracting top talent to deliver high-quality insights
- Demonstrated success in ensuring a research team delivers strategic business value
- Deep experience leading teams who deliver both qualitative and quantitative research insights, spanning generative and evaluative research efforts
Other
- High ambiguity tolerance
- Strong written and verbal communication
- Able to use insights to add business value
- 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)
