
entrepreneur in residence
- Remote, OR
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Accountable for unlocking a new, strategically vital core revenue stream for Randstad, fundamentally altering its marketing presence and future growth trajectory
- Own and drive the vision of the Workday-Randstad marketplace integration from idea to scaled execution.
- Navigate the complexity of Randstad's global organization to align stakeholders across functions (e.g., Finance, Product, Sales, Business leadership), ensuring alignment with overarching corporate objectives and long-term market leadership
- Represent Randstad with our Workday counterparts and operationalize the joint go-to-market.
- Lead cross-functional squads to prioritize and build the integration layers between Workday and Randstad platforms.
- Ensure smooth data flows, develop scalable business processes and shape the commercial model together with sales teams.
- Act as internal founder of this initiative with strong drive, ownership and minimal need for oversight.
- Operate in an undefined and nascent problem space, where the primary responsibility is to actively shape and establish the strategic and operational parameters for market innovation and disruption, creating a solution where no precedent currently exists within the industry
- Inspire stakeholders by connecting the strategic vision to tangible execution milestones and outcomes.
- CIO Randstad Enterprise
- CEO Randstad Enterprise + Randstad North America
- Randstad Enterprise + Randstad North America leadership team & their offices
- Randstad Enterprise + Workday customers
- global function leaders
- account management and sales function
- Proven track record in building and scaling digital products and/or platforms in a global context.
- Deep, foundational expertise across multiple, cutting-edge digital business models, emerging technologies, and disruptive market strategies to define entirely new paradigms
- 10+ years of experience in tech, product, or entrepreneurial roles - ideally with startup and corporate experience.
- Experience working with enterprise software (Workday experience a plus) and data-driven solutions.
- Strong understanding of digital disruption, product lifecycle, go-to-market strategies and agile delivery.
- Master's degree in a relevant field; MBA or similar qualification a plus.
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to engage senior leadership and external partners.
- Recognized as a global thought leader in digital innovation and marketplace development, ideally within the HR services sector, contributing to industry best practices and setting new standards
- Comfortable working in a matrix environment and influencing without authority.
- High degree of self-motivation, resilience, and a bias for action.
- demonstrated experience working in high pressure and fast paced environments, with focus on delivery
- demonstrated change and project management skills on a large scale; capability to plan, priorities and monitor product development, innovation & change management activities, adequately balancing short, mid and long term and deliver and report on results
- excellent communication skills - verbal and written English
- experience in Lean methodologies
- Entrepreneurial mindset - drives outcomes without waiting for instruction. Highly self-motivated with a strong work ethic, and a passion to build and run a diverse team, supporting globally
- Strategic thinker with the ability to break down complex challenges into executable workstreams.
- Product thinking - understands user needs, value creation, and technical trade-offs.
- Business acumen - can model value propositions, understand revenue impact and cost structures.
- Corporate fluency - knows how to get things done in large organizations.
- Strong influencing and stakeholder management skills across multiple functions and geographies.
- Data fluency - ability to interpret, translate and act on insights.
- High integrity, adaptability, and ability to operate in ambiguity.
- Ability to deeply analyse & understand client's process, tools and needs
- Project management - coordinate work of different teams in order to deliver technology solutions and follow progress
- solve escalations and adjust client's needs to our solutions
- change management, naturally challenges the status quo and seeks new & creative ways of operating, demonstrating strong curiosity and openness to the external world and all stakeholders
- knows how to inspire, engage and motivate collaborators and stakeholders so they will embrace change, by guidance, modelling and mentoring;
- emotional intelligence, well-honed communication, collaboration and interpersonal skills as foundations for success
- decision-making & judgement, knows how to make data-driven decisions regarding resources, tasks and deadlines.
- creating clarity - showing line of sight: making sense of complex, high quantity and sometimes contradictory information to effectively and pragmatically solve problems and provides direction to collaborators, is delegating and removing obstacles to get work done;
- analytical and strategic skills with good business judgement and problem-solving qualities;
- courage to challenge: shows courage and confidence to speak up skillfully, challenging others
- highly self-motivated with a strong work ethic, and a passion to build and run a diverse team, supporting globally