Remote Workday Time & Absence Product Manager

Eliassen Group; Madison (WI); Remote; USD 103,000 - 117,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

401(k) with company match

Life insurance

Sick time

Job summary

Eliassen Group is seeking a Workday Time & Absence Product Manager for a remote contract role. You will own time tracking, absence and scheduling capabilities, aligning with HR and Payroll to optimize workforce experiences. Expect AI-enabled design, testing, and continuous improvement across Workday modules.

Priority is defining roadmaps, managing backlogs, and coordinating with IT and partners. W2 contractor with strong benefits and exposure to modern cloud HR solutions.

Qualifications

• 3+ years supporting Workday Time Tracking and Absence Management.
• Experience as Product Manager, Product Owner, or HR technology lead.
• Hands-on Workday configuration expertise.
• Leadership of UAT, integration testing, and deployments.

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

Workday Absence Management

Product Management

AI / automation awareness

Tools

Workday configuration

Workday testing

Workday releases

Analytics dashboards

Job description

Eliassen Group is seeking a Workday Time & Absence Product Manager for a remote contract role. You will own time tracking, absence and scheduling capabilities, aligning with HR and Payroll to optimize workforce experiences. Expect AI-enabled design, testing, and continuous improvement across Workday modules.

Priority is defining roadmaps, managing backlogs, and coordinating with IT and partners. W2 contractor with strong benefits and exposure to modern cloud HR solutions.