Lead Digital Product Manager (Workday)

Allstate; Virginia; Remote; USD 170,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Allstate seeks a Lead Digital Product Manager (Sr Manager) to drive strategy and delivery across its Workday ecosystem. You’ll manage a team of product managers responsible for Core HR, compensation, time and attendance, talent management, recruiting, and onboarding in a remote work setup.

The role requires deep Workday knowledge and a proven track record leading enterprise SaaS products. You will shape roadmaps, balance stakeholder requests with platform implications, and guide build, buy, or

Qualifications

• Extensive Workday product management experience in internal end-user environments.
• 10+ years of product management or HR tech experience.
• Strong Workday platform knowledge across HR modules and integrations.
• Remote-first collaboration with stakeholders and cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead product strategy and lifecycle for Allstate’s Workday portfolio.
• Manage a team of product managers across Core HR, compensation, time and attendance, talent management, recruiting, and onboarding.
• Evaluate requests based on impact, value, effort, risk, dependencies, and alignment with priorities.
• Decide when to leverage existing Workday capabilities, build internal solutions, or engage vendors.
• Collaborate with engineering to explore internal and AI-enabled capabilities.
• Develop clear roadmaps and communicate timelines to stakeholders.
• Lead discovery, testing, and learning to validate concepts.
• Coordinate Workday and internal products to align features and backlogs.
• Maintain governance and enterprise-wide perspective on platform usage.
• Monitor investments and adjust strategy based on performance and priorities.
• Establish PM practices and processes to scale innovation.

Skills

Workday expertise

Product management

Team leadership

Stakeholder management

HR technology

Executive communication

Tools

Workday platform

Job description

And for more than 90 years, our innovative drive has kept us a step ahead of our customers’ evolving needs. From advocating for seat belts, air bags and graduated driving laws, to being an industry leader in pricing sophistication, telematics, and, more recently, device and identity protection. The Lead Digital Product Manager(Sr Manager) will lead product strategy and delivery across Allstate’s Workday ecosystem. This individual will manage a team of product managers responsible for capabilities spanning Core HR, compensation, time and attendance, talent management, recruiting, and onboarding. This leader will bring strong Workday platform knowledge and product management experience within an internal, end-user environment. They will evaluate competing business needs, determine how Workday capabilities fit together, and make thoughtful build, buy, or partner recommendations. Success requires balancing immediate stakeholder requests with broader platform implications, long-term product strategy, and the needs of Allstate employees. Lead the product strategy, vision, roadmap, and lifecycle management for Allstate’s Workday product portfolio.

• Manage, coach, and develop a team of product managers supporting Workday products and capabilities across Core HR, compensation, time and attendance, talent management, recruiting, and onboarding.
• Evaluate incoming requests based on employee impact, business value, effort, risk, dependencies, and alignment with long-term product priorities.
• Determine when to use existing Workday capabilities, develop internal solutions, or consider additional vendor offerings.
• Partner with engineering and technology teams to evaluate opportunities to build internal capabilities, including AI-enabled and agentic solutions that improve employee experience and business processes.
• Develop clear product roadmaps that help stakeholders understand how and when their desired outcomes will be addressed, including situations where the solution or sequencing differs from a vendor recommendation.
• Lead discovery, testing, and learning activities to validate product concepts and inform investment decisions.
• Work across Workday and internally developed products to coordinate shared features, integrations, dependencies, and backlogs.
• Serve as a trusted Workday product expert while maintaining an enterprise-first perspective rather than focusing solely on vendor adoption.
• Challenge assumptions and make informed decisions that move work forward without requiring business stakeholders to resolve every individual product or implementation detail.
• Monitor product investments and operational effectiveness and recommend adjustments based on performance, changing priorities, and emerging employee needs.
• Lead the development and adoption of product management practices, techniques, and processes that support innovative and scalable solutions.
• Strong knowledge of the Workday platform, including an understanding of how products, modules, features, and dependencies work together.
• Experience leading product strategy and roadmap development for Workday or another large-scale, enterprise SaaS platform in an internal, end-user environment.
• Workday experience across multiple functional areas. Experience with talent management, recruiting, or onboarding is also valuable.
• Strong judgment regarding when a technically simple request should be deferred because of broader priorities, testing needs, downstream implications, or limited enterprise value.
• Experience partnering with engineering teams and evaluating opportunities to use internal technology or AI-enabled capabilities alongside a vendor platform.
• Strong executive communication, stakeholder management, and influencing skills.
• Experience leading, coaching, and developing product managers.
• Ability to operate effectively in a complex, cross-functional environment spanning HR, technology, engineering, operations, and vendor partners.
• Engineering experience is not required, but the candidate should be comfortable discussing technical dependencies, integrations, implementation considerations, and platform capabilities.
• Ten or more years of relevant product management, enterprise platform, HR technology, or related experience preferred.
• Prior experience managing product teams and leading products across multiple business or functional areas preferred.
• This is a remote position. Candidates should be able to travel for periodic in-person meetings, potentially up to once per quarter.

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