Senior People Technology Product Manager, Workday Talent Acquisition

Gilead is seeking a Senior People Technology Product Manager, Workday Talent Acquisition, to join our People Technology team within HR. This role is ideal for a seasoned Workday Recruiting expert who combines deep technical knowledge with product management and solution design skills to deliver robust, scalable, and compliant talent acquisition solutions.

You will own the Workday Talent Acquisition product, driving the roadmap, architecture, configuration, and integration strategies for Workday Recruiting and related hiring technologies including Hired Score and Paradox, and ensuring alignment with business outcomes. This is an opportunity to shape Gilead’s hiring technology landscape and elevate the candidate, recruiter, and hiring manager experience through innovation, AI, and automation.

Location: Foster City, CA (Hybrid)

Key Responsibilities

• Act as the product owner and Workday Talent Acquisition subject matter expert, leveraging deep technical and analytical capabilities to design and implement durable, scalable solutions across Workday Recruiting, Hired Score and Paradox.
• Lead end-to-end delivery for Workday Talent Acquisition initiatives: requirements gathering, solution design, configuration, testing, deployment, and post-implementation support.
• Provide techno-functional guidance across the hire-to-onboard lifecycle, including job requisitions, job profiles and postings, candidate experience and career sites, offers, internal mobility, onboarding, recruiting security, and reporting.
• Partner with Talent Acquisition, HR, IT, and cross-functional teams to ensure cohesive architecture, mitigate downstream impacts, and shape the Workday Talent Acquisition roadmap, balancing near-term hiring needs with long-term platform health.
• Partner with IT and manage integration design and the broader recruiting technology ecosystem, such as background check, assessment, CRM, sourcing, job board, interview scheduling, and HRIS integrations, ensuring all workstreams are cohesive and cross-functional/technical impacts are considered and mitigated.
• Evaluate and drive adoption of AI and automation in hiring, including Workday AI capabilities such as job description generation, skills and candidate matching, in alignment with Responsible AI governance.
• Ensure implemented technology meets the transactional, reporting, and analytical needs of the business, including recruiting metrics such as time-to-fill, pipeline health, and source effectiveness. As appropriate, work with data engineering teams to ensure accuracy and completeness of data in the workforce data lake.
• Stay current with Workday releases and updates, evaluating new Recruiting and Talent Acquisition features for potential adoption, and maintain compliance with GDPR, OFCCP, EEO, and Sarbanes-Oxley controls.

Basic Qualifications

• 8+ years of relevant experience with a BS/BA, or
• 6+ years of relevant experience with an MS/MA or MBA

Preferred Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience implementing and supporting Workday applications, with at least 5 years focused on Workday Recruiting or Talent Acquisition technology.
• Bachelor's degree in information systems, Human Resources, Business, related field, or equivalent experience.
• Experience as a product or technical lead on multiple full life-cycle Workday Recruiting implementations especially with HiredScore and Paradox preferred.
• Experience delivering across Workday Talent Acquisition areas such as Recruiting, Career Sites, Interview Scheduling, and Candidate Engagement.
• Deep knowledge of the Workday business process framework, reporting, calculated fields, and security especially as applied to recruiting.
• Experience supporting global or multi-country recruiting processes and country-specific hiring, data privacy, and compliance requirements.
• Proven success delivering talent acquisition products that connect multiple systems and drive measurable business impact on hiring speed, quality, and experience.
• Strategic thinker who links product outcomes to organizational goals.
• Strong stakeholder management and storytelling skills to align diverse teams around a clear vision.
• Workday Pro certification in Recruiting or additional Workday certifications strongly preferred.

People Leader Accountabilities

• Create Inclusion: Understand the business value of diverse teams, model inclusion, and embed the value of diversity in how teams are supported and led.
• Develop Talent: Understand employees’ skills, experiences, aspirations, and potential, and provide the feedback, coaching, and insight needed to support their continued development.
• Empower Teams: Connect teams to broader organizational goals and purpose, provide the support needed to remove barriers, and strengthen connections across the organization.

The salary range for this position is: $146,540.00 - $189,640.00. Gilead considers a variety of factors when determining base compensation, including experience, qualifications, and geographic location. These considerations mean actual compensation will vary. This position may also be eligible for a discretionary annual bonus, discretionary stock-based long-term incentives (eligibility may vary based on role), paid time off, and a benefits package. Benefits include company-sponsored medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans.

Eligible employees may participate in benefit plans, subject to the terms and conditions of the applicable plans.