HRIS Systems Specialist (Workday)

Here at Appian, we're passionate about technology. We love making it, and we love using it. Joining Appian's Business Technology department will provide you with the opportunity to learn in an environment that values cross-functional collaboration and is committed to personal and professional growth. We want to revolutionize the way people work, and in doing so, we develop the Appian platform to be simple so our customers can thrive.

As a Business Systems Specialist, you will be embedded on a small team of technical staff, interact with key business stakeholders, and own the prioritized product backlog to ensure your team delivers high-quality software with each and every iteration. This position will be specifically focused on Corporate Systems, including Workday and Greenhouse. You will drive the priority, design and development of new applications or features for existing applications.

This role is based at our headquarters in McLean, Virginia. Appian was built on a culture of in-person collaboration, which we believe is a key driver of our mission to be the best. Employees hired for this position are expected to be in the office 5 days a week to foster that culture and ensure we continue to thrive through shared ideas and teamwork. We believe being in the office provides more opportunities to come together and celebrate working with the exceptional people across Appian.

In this role, you will:

• Prioritize, define, and ensure success of solution product features for various users at the roadmap/release level, and functionalities within each feature at the sprint level (two-week sprints).

• Contribute to the product roadmap to communicate priorities and key deliverables, collaborating with stakeholders on product vision and strategy.

• Share ideas and receive feedback on new features through presentations to stakeholders, ensuring alignment and clear communication.

• Define how those features will work and look through close collaboration with engineers in design sessions, mockups, UX review, and usability testing.

• Manage the release and sprint backlog through planning, backlog grooming, and working with the Scrum team.

• Write specifications for stakeholders to review and provide feedback on.

• Translate requirements into Epics, User Stories, or Tasks in Jira with defined Acceptance Criteria at a level of detail that the development team can understand and implement.

• Serve as the point of contact and subject matter expert from a business perspective on the applications owned, cultivating a deep understanding of your users and the applications you support.

• Collaborate with business stakeholders to understand their challenges and translate their needs into a clear product vision and strategy.

• Facilitate and support User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and approve completed work before it goes live. Coordinate the rollout plan and user enablement to ensure new features are successfully adopted.

• Identify and recommend new features that will have a meaningful impact on the business.
  

Basic Qualifications:

• 2+ years of experience, preferably in the Product Owner role in an Agile/Scrum environment

• Experience with Workday and Greenhouse

• Familiarity with Jira & Confluence

• Strategic thinker and problem solver with a proven ability to prioritize, negotiate, and execute in order to accomplish amazing things

• Ability to draw clarity out of complex and ever-changing environments; comfortable working through ambiguity

• Strong communicator and facilitator

• Ability to work to understand the interests of a variety of stakeholders to reach workable solutions

• Ownership mentality. Possess the character to act with integrity for the best interests of the entire organization

• Education: Bachelor's degree. Preferred concentration in technical or business areas.