Remote Workday Time & Absence Product Manager

Eliassen Group; Olympia (WA); Remote; USD 103,000 - 117,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision benefits

401(k) with company matching

Life insurance

Sick time as required by law

Job summary

Eliassen Group seeks a Workday Time & Absence Product Manager to own time, scheduling, absence/leave, and self-service capabilities with strong Workday configuration and analytics. Remote contract role, W2 with benefits package. You will align HR, Payroll, Operations and Technology to deliver measurable outcomes and multi-quarter roadmaps.

Responsibilities include defining strategy, prioritizing backlogs, and leading testing, upgrades, and KPI-driven optimization across Workday modules.

Qualifications

• 3+ years supporting Workday Time Tracking and Absence Management.
• Experience as Product Manager, Product Owner, HR Technology Lead, or Senior Business Systems Analyst.
• Hands-on Workday configuration expertise.
• Proven requirements gathering and scalable solution design experience.
• Leadership of UAT, integration testing, regression testing, and production deployments.
• Strong understanding of payroll impacts, leave administration, workforce compliance, FMLA, state leave programs, and workforce operations.

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

Product management

Product owner

HR technology

Workday configuration

UAT leadership

Requirements gathering

Solution design

Payroll & compliance knowledge

Workforce operations

Tools

Workday

Job description

Eliassen Group seeks a Workday Time & Absence Product Manager to own time, scheduling, absence/leave, and self-service capabilities with strong Workday configuration and analytics. Remote contract role, W2 with benefits package. You will align HR, Payroll, Operations and Technology to deliver measurable outcomes and multi-quarter roadmaps.

Responsibilities include defining strategy, prioritizing backlogs, and leading testing, upgrades, and KPI-driven optimization across Workday modules.