Product Director, Workforce Transitions

Product Director, Workforce Transitions & Employee Experience (New Brunswick, NJ)

Responsibilities

• Own the product strategy, long-term vision, roadmap, and governance for the Workforce Transitions and Employee Experience domain.
• Translate enterprise HR needs and workforce insights into end-to-end product experiences (journeys, workflows, business rules/decision logic, role-based interactions).
• Establish and track outcome-based success metrics (performance, data integrity, efficiency, employee experience).
• Own business cases for investments (value hypotheses, benefits realization, trade-off decisions).
• Lead product lifecycle/roadmap (Innovate → Grow → Sustain → Sunset).
• Prioritize investments using value, feasibility, risk, compliance, and experience impact.
• Provide strategic direction and outcome accountability for discovery, design, and delivery in partnership with Product Delivery, Experience Design, Data, and Engineering.
• Lead continuous discovery with key personas (employees, managers, candidates, HR partners) to prioritize outcomes.
• Manage cross-product prioritization and capacity trade-offs; hold final decision authority when priorities conflict.

Cross-functional & People Leadership

• Partner with HR COEs, Experience Design, Global Experience Owners, Product Delivery, and IT; influence senior stakeholders.
• Coach and develop product managers and analysts; foster innovation using market insights and HR tech trends.

Required Qualifications / Skills

• 10+ years in product management, digital transformation, or HR technology roles (complex/matrixed organizations).
• Experience leading/developing people (performance management, coaching, capability building).
• Portfolio-level product strategy/prioritization/value delivery with measurable outcomes.
• HR digital products expertise (HR operating models, global process design, foundational data structures).
• Strategic thinking/product storytelling; ability to lead through complexity and change.
• Global mindset and experience navigating regulatory/cultural/operational nuance.
• Agile/product management proficiency; translate objectives into outcome-based roadmaps.

Preferred

• Hands-on Workday experience; AI/automation/analytics for HR workflows.
• Familiarity with HCM and employee experience for end-to-end process design.

Education

Bachelor’s degree in HR, Business, Services, or related fields.

Benefits (time off explicitly stated)

• Vacation: 120 hours/year; Sick time: 40 hours/year (state variations); Holiday pay (incl. floating): 13 days/year.
• Work/Personal/Family time: up to 40 hours/year; Parental leave: 480 hours (within one year).
• Bereavement: 240 hours immediate family; Caregiver leave: 80 hours (52-week rolling period); Volunteer leave: 32 hours/year.

Additional benefit (explicit)

• Military Spouse Time-Off: 80 hours/year.

Compensation (explicit)

• Base pay range: $150,000.00 - $258,750.00