HRIS Systems Specialist (Workday)

Priorities

• Prioritize, define, and ensure success of solution product features for various users at the roadmap/release level, and functionalities within each feature at the sprint level (two-week sprints).
• Contribute to the product roadmap to communicate priorities and key deliverables, collaborating with stakeholders on product vision and strategy.
• Share ideas and receive feedback on new features through presentations to stakeholders, ensuring alignment and clear communication.
• Define how those features will work and look through close collaboration with engineers in design sessions, mockups, UX review, and usability testing.
• Manage the release and sprint backlog through planning, backlog grooming, and working with the Scrum team.
• Write specifications for stakeholders to review and provide feedback on.
• Translate requirements into Epics, User Stories, or Tasks in Jira with defined Acceptance Criteria at a level of detail that the development team can understand and implement.

Responsibilities

• Manage the release and sprint backlog through planning, backlog grooming, and working with the Scrum team.
• Write specifications for stakeholders to review and provide feedback on.
• Translate requirements into Epics, User Stories, or Tasks in Jira with defined Acceptance Criteria at a level of detail that the development team can understand and implement.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders to understand their challenges and translate their needs into a clear product vision and strategy.
• Facilitate and support User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and approve completed work before it goes live. Coordinate the rollout plan and user enablement to ensure new features are successfully adopted.
• Identify and recommend new features that will have a meaningful impact on the business.

Requirements

• Basic Qualifications: 2+ years of experience, preferably in the Product Owner role in an Agile/Scrum environment.
• Familiarity with Workday and Greenhouse.
• Familiarity with Jira & Confluence.
• Strategic thinker and problem solver with a proven ability to prioritize, negotiate, and execute in order to accomplish amazing things.
• Strong communicator and facilitator.
• Ability to work to understand the interests of a variety of stakeholders to reach workable solutions.
• Ownership mentality. Possess the character to act with integrity for the best interests of the entire organization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree. Preferred concentration in technical or business areas.

Skills

• Strategic thinker and problem solver with a proven ability to prioritize, negotiate, and execute in order to accomplish amazing things.
• Strong communicator and facilitator.
• Ability to work to understand the interests of a variety of stakeholders to reach workable solutions.
• Ownership mentality. Possess the character to act with integrity for the best interests of the entire organization.

Benefits

• Commutes to our headquarters in McLean, Virginia.
• Company culture emphasizes in-person collaboration and shared ideas.
• Employees hired for this position are expected to be in the office 5 days a week.
• Equipped with the skills and knowledge for success through department-specific training during onboarding.
• Continuous learning is a central focus at Appian, with dedicated mentorship and the First-Friend program being widely utilized resources for new hires.
• Commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion through 8 employee-led affinity groups.

Pay

• Competitive compensation package.

Schedule

• Full-time position.