Senior HR Product Owner

Your opportunity

At Schwab, you’re empowered to make an impact on your career. Here, innovative thought meets creative problem solving, helping us “challenge the status quo” and transform the finance industry together.

As a Senior HR Product Owner, you will play a role in transforming how we deliver value to our employees and business partners. You will be responsible for executing the vision, roadmap, and delivery of Workday capabilities and optimization efforts across multiple Workday modules. You’ll partner closely with the other members of the product team, HR leadership, Schwab Technology Services (STS), and business stakeholders to ensure our Workday solution supports talent strategies, enhances the employee experience, and scales with the organization’s growth. This role leverages your Product Owner experience and offers the opportunity to focus on strategic impact rather than hands-on development or configuration within Workday.

Key Responsibilities

• Contribute to a high-performing team of HR product managers, fostering a culture of innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Contribute to the product strategy & roadmap for Workday including Core HCM, Payroll, Compensation and Benefits. Support for integrations between HR systems and enterprise applications.
• Manage the backlog and ensure alignment to roadmap. Lead quarterly planning and manage delivery in agile team
• Translate complex business needs into actionable deliverables, including technical specifications, epics, and user stories for agile development teams.
• Partner cross-functionally with Total Rewards and Schwab Technology Services (STS) to design and maintain seamless integrations with downstream systems, ensuring data integrity.
• Stay abreast of Workday releases and feature previews, proactively assessing impact and championing the adoption of relevant enhancements.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives by analyzing system performance, gathering user feedback, and optimizing process efficiency.
• Drive platform adoption, user experience, and process simplification by analyzing metrics, employee feedback and operational data to improve outcomes
• Coordinate releases, testing, change management and communications
• Please Note: This is an in-office role, requiring on-site presence in one of the locations where the role is posted, a minimum of 4 days per week, and offers the flexibility of working remotely one day a week. This policy is subject to change at any time, at the Company's sole discretion.
  
  

What you have

To ensure that we have fulfilled our promise of "challenging the status quo," this role has specific qualifications that successful candidates should have.

Required Qualifications

• Proven success as a Product Owner or Manager for technology solutions.
• Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, HR Technology, or related field.
• Experience managing product roadmaps, prioritization frameworks, and agile delivery practices.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with Workday configuration and integration concepts (hands-on experience a plus).
• Ability to navigate complex organizational changes and influence stakeholders at all levels.
  
  

Skills & Competencies

• Put clients first by defining their problems and validating their needs
• Balance quantitative evidence with qualitative input to make reasoned decisions
• Strategic thinker focused on delivering high-quality outcomes.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Passion for innovation, transformation and continuous improvement.
• Exceptional collaboration, influencing and interpersonal skills.
• Comfortable operating in an agile, fast-paced, and dynamic environment.
  
  

What’s in it for you

At Schwab, you’re empowered to shape your future. We champion your growth through meaningful work, continuous learning, and a culture of trust and collaboration—so you can build the skills to make a lasting impact. Our Hybrid Work and Flexibility approach balances our ongoing commitment to workplace flexibility, serving our clients, and our strong belief in the value of being together in person on a regular basis.

We offer a competitive benefits package that takes care of the whole you – both today and in the future:

• 401(k) with company match and Employee stock purchase plan
• Paid time for vacation, volunteering, and 28-day sabbatical after every 5 years of service for eligible positions
• Paid parental leave and family building benefits
• Tuition reimbursement
• Health, dental, and vision insurance