Oracle Product Manager, Workforce Technology

This role is responsible for the product management of IHG's core workforce technology ecosystem, with primary ownership of Oracle HCM Fusion and related workforce capabilities. The Product Manager partners closely with HR stakeholders, architects, engineers, and vendors to define product strategy, prioritize investments, and deliver solutions that improve employee experiences, simplify processes, and drive business outcomes. The role will champion AI-enabled workforce capabilities, workforce data quality, automation, and modern digital experiences that meet employees where they are in the flow of work. The Product Manager serves as the accountable owner for how technology solutions are designed, configured, prioritized, and delivered to meet business objectives. While HR defines business priorities and desired outcomes, this role owns the technology strategy and product roadmap required to achieve them.

Your Day to Day

• Product Strategy & Roadmap: Own the product vision, roadmap, and backlog for Oracle HCM Fusion and core workforce capabilities. Translate HR and workforce strategies into measurable product outcomes and technology investments. Balance business value, colleague experience, technical sustainability, compliance requirements, and operational excellence. Translate HR business priorities and workforce objectives into product strategies, solution roadmaps, and technology investments, determining how technology capabilities will best enable business outcomes.
• Workforce Technology Partnership: Partner with HR stakeholders across Core HR, Talent, Recruiting, Compensation, Benefits, Workforce Management, and Learning. Understand colleague journeys and identify opportunities to simplify experiences and remove process friction. Act as a strategic technology partner to HR stakeholders, challenging assumptions, evaluating alternatives, and recommending solutions that balance business value, user experience, scalability, cost, risk, and technical sustainability. Partner with HR to define desired business outcomes while owning product decisions, platform configuration strategy, technical solution approaches, and delivery prioritization.
• AI & Workforce Innovation: Evaluate, pilot, and scale AI-enabled workforce capabilities including employee self-service, conversational experiences, intelligent recommendations, workforce insights, process automation, and skills-based experiences. Drive experiences that provide colleagues with relevant information, support, guidance, and learning opportunities in the flow of work. Stay current with emerging workforce technology, AI, and employee experience trends to continuously evolve platform capabilities.
• Product Delivery: Own the product backlog and Agile delivery cadence, prioritizing work by business value and aligning each release to the product roadmap. Focus on product outcomes, value realization, and adoption of new capabilities, working with engineering and vendor partners who carry out delivery.
• Data & Insights: Leverage workforce data, user feedback, operational metrics, and adoption analytics to guide prioritization and continuous improvement. Partner with stakeholders to improve workforce data quality and support future AI and analytics capabilities
• Business & Technology Partnership: Partner with HR leaders to define business needs, desired outcomes, and success measures while leading the evaluation, design, and implementation of technology solutions that achieve those outcomes.
• Employee Experience & Business Impact: Jointly accountable with HR leaders for ensuring workforce technology supports HR strategy and delivers measurable improvements in colleague experience and process efficiency.
• Workforce Data Integrity: Share responsibility with the HRIS/Core HR team for the accuracy of workforce data in Oracle HCM and its flow to downstream systems, supporting reliable reporting and future AI and analytics capabilities.
• Adoption & Change: Collaborate with HR, Communications, and business stakeholders on change management, training, and communication that drive adoption of new workforce capabilities.
• Delivery Partnership: Partner with Workforce Platforms Engineering, vendors, and implementation partners to ensure high-quality releases that meet product priorities.

What We Need from You

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Business Administration, a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and work-related experience.
• Experience: 5+ years of experience in Product Management, Business Analysis, Technology Consulting, HR Technology, or related digital product roles. 3+ years of direct experience supporting Oracle HCM Fusion and Core HR business processes. Experience partnering with business stakeholders and engineering teams to define strategy, manage priorities, and deliver business outcomes. Experience working with enterprise SaaS platforms in large, complex organizations. Experience operating within Agile product delivery environments.
• Mandatory Expertise: Hands-on experience with Oracle HCM Fusion. Strong understanding of Core HR processes, employee lifecycle workflows, workforce data, security concepts, and HR operating models. Experience translating business requirements into product roadmaps, epics, and prioritized backlogs. Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.

Preferred Experience

• Experience with UKG, ServiceNow HRSD, ADP, Paradox, Oracle Learning, Cornerstone, SumTotal, or similar workforce technologies. Experience supporting workforce modernization or HR transformation initiatives. Experience evaluating or implementing AI-enabled capabilities within HR and workforce platforms.
• Demonstrates a product mindset focused on employee experience, business outcomes, and continuous improvement. Passionate about using AI, automation, and modern digital experiences to reduce friction, improve productivity, and deliver relevant support, guidance, and development opportunities in the flow of work. Demonstrates ownership of the technology strategy and solution approach, proactively shaping how workforce technology capabilities evolve rather than solely responding to business requests. Brings a product mindset that balances employee experience, business value, architectural integrity, and long-term platform sustainability.

Travel 10%

Location - Our hybrid work structure is an exception of three (3) days in the ATLANTA office. This expectation may be adjusted to evolve with the changing needs of the business.

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