Derek is the Director of Product Management for Workday Media Cloud Engineering headquartered in Victoria, BC. Workday is a leading provider of enterprise cloud applications for finance, HR, and planning, and delivers financial management, human capital management, and analytics applications for the world’s largest companies, educational institutions, and government agencies.

Derek is a high-energy, hands-on and results-oriented product professional. He currently leads a product management team responsible for the success of a suite of media services used by Workday customers and their millions of end users. Their products help customers deliver rich, engaging, immersive and transformative media experiences to their workers.

Since joining Workday in 2015, Derek has led a product team that has seen 40% year over year growth. This team now spans 3 cities in 3 different countries. During this time Derek helped define a new type of Product Management process that allows for agile continuous product discovery and delivery at-scale, enabling his team to partner with Product Strategy, with development teams and design, and most importantly, to work very closely with their customers week over week.