Johnson & Johnson

Product Director, Workforce Transitions

Johnson & Johnson  •  $150k - $259k/yr  •  Onsite  •  4 hours ago
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Job Description

At Johnson & Johnson, we believe health is everything. Our strength in healthcare innovation empowers us to build a world where complex diseases are prevented, treated, and cured, where treatments are smarter and less invasive, and solutions are personal. Through our expertise in Innovative Medicine and MedTech, we are uniquely positioned to innovate across the full spectrum of healthcare solutions today to deliver the breakthroughs of tomorrow, and profoundly impact health for humanity. Learn more at jnj.com

As guided by Our Credo, Johnson & Johnson is responsible to our employees who work with us throughout the world. We provide an inclusive work environment where each person is considered as an individual. At Johnson & Johnson, we respect the diversity and dignity of our employees and recognize their merit.

Job Function:

Technology Product & Platform Management

Job Sub Function:

Technical Product Management

Job Category:

People Leader

All Job Posting Locations:

New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America

We are recruiting for a Product Director, Workforce Transitions role based in New Brunswick, NJ location.

The Product Director, Workforce Transitions & Employee Experience is accountable for the strategy, performance, and evolution of a portfolio of products that shape critical employee moments across workforce transitions, employee experience, and core employee lifecycle transactions. This includes capabilities supporting onboarding, internal movement, job changes, employee relations, labor relations, exit management, and the digital front door, ensuring employees, managers, and HR teams can access connected, intuitive experiences across the moments that matter most.As the product line leader, this roledefines the vision, sets priorities, and drives value realization across the domain, ensuring products and experiences are aligned to enterprise HR priorities, user needs, compliance requirements, and business outcomes.

Operating in a player-coach model, the Director leads and develops Product Managers and analysts while also serving as the senior product leader for these capabilities. This role partners closely with HR, Global Services, Experience Design, Data, and Digital teams, and works in especially close partnership with the other product line leaders to connect journeys, orchestrate dependencies, and enable seamless experiences across pillars. Of all product domains, this role is among the most interconnected across the HR digital portfolio, requiring strong alignment across product leaders to ensureexperiences, workflows, data, and handoffs come together in a coherent end-to-end employee journey. The Director ensures the domain is designed and managed as part of an integrated HR digital ecosystem, with clear handoffs, shared data foundations, and seamless experiences across the broader portfolio.

Responsibilities:

Strategic & Product Leadership

  • Own the product strategy and define thelongtermvision, roadmap, and governance model for theWorkforce Transitions and Employee Experienceproduct domain, anchored in enterprise HR vision and goals

  • Translate enterprise needs, HR operating models, and workforce insights intocohesiveend‑to‑endproductexperiences and scalable design patterns, including journeys, redesigned workflows, business rules, decision logic, androlebasedinteractions

  • Establish and trackoutcome‑basedsuccess metrics that measure product performance, data integrity, efficiency, and employee experience

  • Own thebusiness case for allWorkforce Transitions and Employee Experienceproduct investments , including value hypotheses, benefits realization, and explicittradeoffdecisions

  • Own theproduct lifecycle and roadmap across Innovate → Grow → Sustain → Sunset , balancingneartermdelivery withlongtermplatform and experience evolution.

  • Prioritizeinvestments using value, feasibility, risk, compliance, and experience impact, ensuring decisions are grounded in data and leading indicators

  • Providestrategic direction and outcome accountability for discovery, design, and delivery acrossWorkforce Transitions and Employee Experienceproducts, in close partnership with Product Delivery, Experience Design, Data, and Engineering teams

  • Represent the voice of key personas—employees, people managers, candidates, and HR partners—using continuous discovery to translate insights into prioritized product outcomes

  • Owncross‑productprioritization and capacitytrade‑offs across theWorkforce Transitions and Employee Experienceportfolio

  • Holdfinal decision authority whenproductlevelpriorities conflict

  • Ensure investment decisionsoptimizeenterprise value , not local or functional outcomes

Cross Functional Leadership

  • Partner with HR COEs, ExperienceDesign,Global ExperienceOwners,Product Delivery and ITto drive delivery excellence, manage dependencies, and ensure successful execution of product initiatives

  • Influence senior stakeholders on technology, data, and process implications—advising on risks,tradeoffs, and strategic investment priorities

  • Represent your product domains in governance forums, enterprise planning cycles, and cross pillar product integration efforts

People Leadership & Capability Building

  • Coach and develop a team of product managers and analysts, elevating product craft, data fluency, and HR technologyexpertise

  • Foster a culture of innovation by bringing market insights, product best practicesand C.E.O. behaviors, and emerging HR technology trends into the strategy and design process

Required skills:

  • 10+ years of experience in product management, digital transformation, or HR technology roles within complex, matrixed organizations

  • Demonstrated experience leading and developingpeople,including performance management, coaching, and capability building

  • Proven success owningportfoliolevelproduct strategy, prioritization, and value delivery, with accountability for measurable outcomes

  • Demonstratedexpertisein HR digital products and experiences, with strong acumen in HR operating models, global process design, and foundational data structures

  • Exceptional strategic thinking and product storytelling skills, with the ability to translate complex technical or process concepts into clear,valuecentricdirection that drives adoption and impact

  • Demonstrated ability to lead through complexity and organizational change, influencing senior leaders across HR, Technology, and the business

  • Experience managing HR products with a global mindset, navigating regulatory, cultural, and operational nuance

  • Strong portfolio and delivery leadership, including managingcrossfunctionalteams, dependencies, ambiguity, andenterpriselevelrisks

  • Ability to clearly explain product and technologytradeoffsto senior executives and articulate the business value of HR digital investments

  • Proficiencyin modern product management and agile delivery practices, translating strategicobjectivesintooutcomebasedroadmaps and continuous value delivery

Preferred:

  • Deep, hands-on history with Workday and a solid understanding of global best practices, both in direct Workday implementation and design as well as how Workday fits into a broader HR technology ecosystem

  • Experience applying AI, automation, or analytics to HR workflows

  • Familiaritywithcore HCM and employee experienceto support coherent, end to end process design

Leadership Behaviors:

  • Enterprise-minded: Drives enterprise value first, enabling localized approaches when theyare required todeliver the best overall results.

  • Outcome-obsessed: Measures success through impact and experience.

  • Inclusive leader: Elevates diverse perspectives and shared ownership.

  • Strategic simplifier: Cuts complexity and friction.

  • Boldinnovator Reimagines HR work using modern product practices.

  • Decisive integrator: Connects strategy, experience, technology, and data.

Education Qualification:

Bachelors degree in HR, Business, Services or related fields

Required Skills:

Preferred Skills:

Analytical Reasoning, Cost Management, Developing Others, Fact-Based Decision Making, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Inclusive Leadership, Leadership, New Program Development, Performance Measurement, Product Development, Product Strategies, Project Management Methodology (PMM), Research and Development, Software Development Management, Stakeholder Management, Strategic Supply Chain Management

The anticipated base pay range for this position is :

$150,000.00 - $258,750.00

Additional Description for Pay Transparency:

Subject to the terms of their respective plans, employees are eligible to participate in the Company’s consolidated retirement plan (pension) and savings plan (401(k)).

This position is eligible to participate in the Company’s long-term incentive program.

Subject to the terms of their respective policies and date of hire, employees are eligible for the following time off benefits:

Vacation –120 hours per calendar year

Sick time - 40 hours per calendar year; for employees who reside in the State of Colorado –48 hours per calendar year; for employees who reside in the State of Washington –56 hours per calendar year

Holiday pay, including Floating Holidays –13 days per calendar year

Work, Personal and Family Time - up to 40 hours per calendar year

Parental Leave – 480 hours within one year of the birth/adoption/foster care of a child

Bereavement Leave – 240 hours for an immediate family member: 40 hours for an extended family member per calendar year

Caregiver Leave – 80 hours in a 52-week rolling period10 days

Volunteer Leave – 32 hours per calendar year

Military Spouse Time-Off – 80 hours per calendar year

Johnson & Johnson

About Johnson & Johnson

At Johnson & Johnson, we believe health is everything. As a focused healthcare company, with expertise in Innovative Medicine and MedTech, we’re empowered to tackle the world’s toughest health challenges, innovate through science and technology, and transform patient care. ​

All of this is possible because of our people. We’re passionate innovators who put people first, and through our purpose-driven culture and talented workforce, we are stronger than ever. ​

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Industry
Healthcare & Social Services
Company Size
10,000+ employees
Headquarters
New Brunswick, NJ
Year Founded
Unknown
Website
jnj.com
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