fundamentals, versus knowing all the subject matter. Then, I had a few colleagues from a prior employer that were at this tax technology startup. They said, “Hey, we need you over at this startup. Come help us.” And I did, and ended up just loving it. It was (again) this kind of doing the hard stuff, doing the stuff that no one else wanted to do. And we were using AI behind the scenes, so I became really involved in that. When I had the opportunity to move to Workday, I couldn’t turn it down. I always had Workday on this pedestal as the best culture, the best software, highest quality. I thought this will be an opportunity to leverage my AI experiences. GPA: What does your current position entail? Jen Cozier: I’m responsible for Workday’s payroll software globally. I lead a team of around 50 product managers who are across the US and Canada, France, Ireland, the UK, Australia,
The way I describe it to my mother, we translate the needs and wants of the customers to our engineering teams, and we guide the build, doing mockups of what something should look like. Then, when the software gets built, we try it out and assess how well the instructions were interpreted so it meets how a payroll person does it.
includes developing new products and new features for our payroll clients. Our team builds and maintains the payroll software, including mobile apps. The way I describe it to my mother, we translate the needs and wants of the customers to our engineering teams, and we guide the build, doing mockups of what something should look like. Then, when the software gets built, we try it out and assess how well the instructions were interpreted so it meets how a payroll person does it.
New Zealand and India. We have a product called
Global Payroll Connect, which connects third-party payrolls to our solutions. I’m responsible for anything payroll-related, and that
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