Remote Workday Time & Absence Product Lead

Eliassen Group; Honolulu (HI); Remote; USD 103,000 - 117,000; Part time

Job summary

Eliassen Group is seeking a Workday Time & Absence Product Manager to own and advance time, scheduling, absence, leave, and employee self-service capabilities. This remote contract role focuses on configuring Workday, testing, and solution design while leveraging AI and automation to modernize processes and improve compliance.

Responsibilities include leading strategy, roadmaps, and backlogs for Time Tracking and Leave programs, partnering with HR and IT, and driving measurable outcomes across

Qualifications

• 3+ years supporting Workday Time Tracking and Absence Management.
• Hands-on Workday configuration experience and testing.
• Experience in product ownership or HR technology leadership.
• Knowledge of payroll impacts and leave administration.

Responsibilities

• Define and manage strategy, roadmap, and backlog for Workday Time Tracking, Absence Management, Leave Management, and Workforce Scheduling.
• Partner with HR, Payroll, Operations, Compliance, and Technology to define future-state workforce experiences.
• Translate business objectives into measurable outcomes and prioritized initiatives with multi-quarter roadmaps.
• Identify and evaluate AI, machine learning, generative AI, and automation opportunities for workforce processes.
• Design AI-enabled solutions for leave case management, scheduling assistance, absence trend prediction, compliance monitoring, policy interpretation, and self-service.
• Partner with enterprise AI teams to pilot and scale intelligent workforce solutions.
• Serve as product owner and functional SME for Time Tracking, Absence, Leave Administration, Eligibility Rules, Accruals, Time Calculations, Holiday Calendars, Work Schedules, and Leave Compliance Programs.
• Configure and maintain Workday business processes, validations, eligibility rules, accruals, time entry, and absence plans.
• Lead discovery, requirements workshops, design reviews, and translate needs into user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Own testing strategy and execution including unit, system integration, UAT, regression, and production validation.
• Build and maintain product backlogs, release plans, and coordinate implementations across HR, Payroll, IT, and partners.
• Support Workday upgrades, feature releases, and continuous optimization.
• Develop KPIs and success metrics, and leverage Workday reporting, calculated fields, dashboards, and analytics.
• Identify predictive analytics and AI-generated insights to improve workforce planning and absence management.

Skills

Workday Time Tracking

Absence Management

Workday configuration

Product ownership

UAT testing

AI opportunities

Tools

Workday reporting

AI tooling

Job description

Eliassen Group is seeking a Workday Time & Absence Product Manager to own and advance time, scheduling, absence, leave, and employee self-service capabilities. This remote contract role focuses on configuring Workday, testing, and solution design while leveraging AI and automation to modernize processes and improve compliance.

Responsibilities include leading strategy, roadmaps, and backlogs for Time Tracking and Leave programs, partnering with HR and IT, and driving measurable outcomes across