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The Manager, HR Technology & Solutions (Workday Recruiting & Talent) serves as the product owner for Workday’s Recruiting and Talent capabilities within the HR Technology & Solutions team, with oversight over the Leaning module. This role combines hands-on system expertise with strategic product management, driving continuous improvement, innovation, and business value across the talent lifecycle.

This role partners closely with the global Talent Acquisition and Talent Management teams, as well as HR leadership, to shape the roadmap for Workday Recruiting and Talent, ensuring the platform evolves with business needs, user expectations, and technological advancements. The ideal candidate blends product thinking, curiosity, and functional depth, leveraging emerging technologies to enhance automation, decision-making, and user experience. This role reports to the Director, HR Technology & Solutions.

Key Responsibilities

Act as the product owner for Workday Recruiting and Talent, defining a strategic roadmap and managing enhancements, releases, and optimization initiatives.
Partner with Talent Acquisition and Talent COEs across NA, EMEA and APAC to identify opportunities for process improvement, automation, and enhanced user experience.
Translate business needs into scalable, sustainable Workday solutions while balancing innovation, risk, and compliance.
Drive continuous improvement and value creation through data insights, stakeholder feedback, and awareness of Workday’s evolving capabilities.
Evaluate emerging capabilities and HR tech innovation (e.g., Workday AI, Skills Cloud) to enhance recruiting and talent processes and outcomes (e.g. productivity, talent mobility, etc.).
Partner with HR communications and change management to drive adoption of new features.
Lead the end-to-end delivery lifecycle: requirements, design, configuration, testing, deployment, and adoption in partnership with the HR Technology & Solutions Workday Delivery Lead.
Collaborate across the global HR Technology & Solutions organization to align roadmaps and leverage cross-module functionality (HCM, Compensation, Reporting, Security).
Partner with technical leads to ensure integration design, data quality, and security for Recruiting and Talent processes are aligned to business needs and best practices.
Ensure governance, audit readiness, and alignment with SOX and internal controls.
Build strong partnerships with HR, IT, and vendor teams to maximize Workday ROI and overall platform value.
Lead and foster a collaborative, high-performing team environment, managing direct reports and vendor resources to ensure alignment, accountability, and consistent service delivery across regions.

Qualifications

5+ years of progressive HR technology experience with proven experience as a Workday product owner, analyst or manager driving system enhancements and stakeholder alignment.
Deep, hands-on Workday configuration expertise in Recruiting and Talent.
Demonstrated success in delivering HR technology solutions that improve user experience and business outcomes.
Experience with cross-functional Workday domains (HCM, Compensation, Security, Reporting) preferred.
Strong analytical mindset with the ability to use data and metrics to drive decisions.
Excellent communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills across global teams.
Highly organized, detail-oriented, and able to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
Demonstrated ability to lead, develop, and motivate direct reports, fostering professional growth and high performance within a regional or global team structure.
Passion for innovation, continuous improvement, and employee experience.

Preferred Skills

Workday Pro certification in Recruiting and/or Talent.
Experience with Agile or iterative product management approaches.
Familiarity with Workday integration tools (EIB, Studio) and governance in SOX-controlled environments.

Our Competencies for All Employees

Courage: Doesn’t hold back anything that needs to be said; provides current, direct, complete, and “actionable” positive and corrective feedback to others; lets people know where they stand; faces up to people problems on any person or situation (not including direct reports) quickly and directly; is not afraid to take negative action when necessary.

Creativity: Comes up with a lot of new and unique ideas; easily makes connections among previously unrelated notions; tends to be seen as original and value-added in brainstorming settings.

Customer Focus: Is dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of internal and external customers; gets first-hand customer information and uses it for improvements in products and services; acts with customers in mind; establishes and maintains effective relationships with customers and gains their trust and respect.

Dealing with Ambiguity: Can effectively cope with change; can shift gears comfortably; can decide and act without having the total picture; isn’t upset when things are up in the air; doesn’t have to finish things before moving on; can comfortably handle risk and uncertainty.

Drive for Results: Can be counted on to exceed goals successfully; is constantly and consistently one of the top performers; very bottom-line oriented; steadfastly pushes self and others for results.

Interpersonal Savvy: Relates well to all kinds of people, up, down, and sideways, inside and outside the organization; builds appropriate rapport; builds constructive and effective relationships; uses diplomacy and tact; can diffuse even high-tension situations comfortably.

Learning on the Fly: Learns quickly when facing new problems; a relentless and versatile learner; open to change; analyzes both successes and failures for clues to improvement; experiments and will try anything to find solutions; enjoys the challenge of unfamiliar tasks; quickly grasps the essence and the underlying structure of anything.

Our Competencies for All People Managers

Strategic Agility: Sees ahead clearly; can anticipate future consequences and trends accurately; has broad knowledge and perspective; is future oriented; can articulately paint credible pictures and visions of possibilities and likelihoods; can create competitive and breakthrough strategies and plans.

Developing Direct Reports and Others: Provides challenging and stretching tasks and assignments; holds frequent development discussions; is aware of each person's career goals; constructs compelling development plans and executes them; pushes people to accept developmental moves; will take on those who need help and further development; cooperates with the developmental system in the organization; is a people builder.

Building Effective Teams: Blends people into teams when needed; creates strong morale and spirit in their team; shares wins and successes; fosters open dialogue; lets people finish and be responsible for their work; defines success in terms of the whole team; creates a feeling of belonging in the team.

Tapestry, Inc. is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer and we pride ourselves on hiring and developing the best people. All employment decisions (including recruitment, hiring, promotion, compensation, transfer, training, discipline and termination) are based on the applicant’s or employee’s qualifications as they relate to the requirements of the position under consideration. These decisions are made without regard to age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic characteristics, race, color, creed, religion, ethnicity, national origin, alienage, citizenship, disability, marital status, military status, pregnancy, or any other legally-recognized protected basis prohibited by applicable law.

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Tapestry, Inc. will provide applicants and employees with reasonable accommodation for disabilities or religious beliefs. If you require reasonable accommodation to complete the application process, please contact Tapestry People Services at 1-855-566-9264 or employeerelations@tapestry.com

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Base Pay Range

$120,000.00-$150,000.00

Here are some of the benefits that we offer: Medical insurance, Dental insurance, Vision insurance, 401 (K), Paid Paternity and Maternity leave, Commuter Benefits, Disability insurance and Tuition assistance. Please click here for a complete list of U.S Corporate Compensation & Benefits.

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