Principal Product Manager, Workday
Workday AI, Agent Factory
$162.8-294k
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Enterprise AI platform for managing HR, finance & IT
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Enterprise AI platform for managing HR, finance & IT
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$162.8-294k
Salary is dependent on location
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To leverage the power of AI to elevate humans and supercharge work, moving business forever forward.
Role
Who you are
- This role requires a rare combination: the scrappiness to prototype and build in weeks, the technical depth to design reliable agent systems, and the domain judgment to solve real problems in highly regulated, highly complex environments
- 11+ years of product management experience
- 5+ years in SaaS/B2B enterprise software
- Direct experience building and shipping AI agent systems to production (not just AI/ML features, but agents that reason, plan, and take action autonomously)
- Deep technical acumen: you can evaluate agent architectures, debug failure modes, and make informed design tradeoffs with engineering
- Strong communication and relationship-building skills across engineering, customers, and executive stakeholders
- Experience in regulated or complex domains (finance, HCM, healthcare, legal) where trust, compliance, and auditability are non-negotiable
- Track record of 0-to-1 product development: you've taken something from idea to revenue, not just maintained an existing product
- Bias for action, comfortable making high-stakes decisions with incomplete information and iterating from there
- Experience managing Early Adopter or beta programs with enterprise customers
- Ability to operate across multiple functions, influence senior executives, and drive alignment without authority
- You'll be a great fit if:
- You are already building agent systems, whether prototyping on weekends, shipping side projects, or pushing the boundaries at your current company
- You have strong opinions on agent evaluation, reliability, and human-in-the-loop design, formed from hands-on experience, not just reading papers
- You learn complex customer domains fast and can identify where agents create step-function value versus where they create risk
- You are motivated by building new product lines from scratch, not optimizing existing ones
- You are organized enough to track dozens of moving pieces across customers, engineering, and stakeholders while maintaining velocity
What the job involves
- We are looking for Principal Product Managers who have shipped production AI agent systems and want to do it again at enterprise scale. You will own an agent from concept through GA: scoping the bet, prototyping solutions, running early adopter programs, and scaling to Workday's global customer base
- This is not a strategy-deck role. You will be hands-on with agent architectures, evaluation frameworks, and customer workflows daily, while also making sharp prioritization calls across a fast-moving portfolio
- Own an AI agent end-to-end, from identifying the opportunity through GA launch and beyond
- Prototype and validate agent concepts rapidly, using real customer workflows and data to pressure-test viability before committing engineering resources
- Design production-quality agent systems in collaboration with engineering, ensuring reliability, auditability, and trust in regulated domains
- Run customer discovery and Early Adopter programs to validate value, generate references, and derisk at every stage
- Identify the highest-ROI agent opportunities in finance and HCM, build conviction with data, and advocate for them within the organization
- Define measurable value outcomes and evaluation frameworks that prove agent impact quantitatively
- Collaborate deeply with domain PMs to understand workflows, constraints, and where autonomous agents unlock step-function value versus incremental improvement
- Communicate agent vision and progress to executives, customers, field teams, and implementers, translating technical capability into business value
Our take
Workday is a cloud-based software vendor that provides management of workforces and finances. The company uses a single database for workforce management and financial management to offer integration and optimize business intelligence across companies. It has added to the packages and tools it offers over the years, providing analytic options that allow companies to combine third-party data with information collected by Workday.
The company has also grown through acquisitions and partnerships to broaden its capabilities. Most recently, in 2025 it purchases Sana, an AI-driven enterprise knowledge and learning platform, to create a "new front door for work". This acquisition allows Workday to integrate Sana's AI-powered search, agents, and learning capabilities with its own data and workflows, allowing employees to access information, automate tasks, and complete their day entirely within Workday.
Through a combination of strategic acquisitions and in-house development, Workday has built a comprehensive suite of HR, financial, and enterprise tools. By focusing on innovation and AI-driven workflows, the company continues to push productivity and decision-making for organizations worldwide. Building on this track record, Workday is very much positioned for even more growth, reinforcing its status as a leader in shaping the future of work.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
16% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Oct 2011
$85m
SERIES F
Apr 2009
$75m
SERIES E
Total funding: $215.3m
Company HQ
Pleasanton, CA
Leadership
Aneel Bhusri
(Co-Founder & CEO)Annel began their career at Morgan Stanley as a Corporate Finance Analyst. They then spent nearly 6 years at PeopleSoft as a Senior VP before co-founding Workday in 2005.
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