Senior Product Manager, Workday
Developer Platform Telemetry & Observability
$168-252k
Enterprise AI platform for managing HR, finance & IT
Open for applications
Enterprise AI platform for managing HR, finance & IT
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$168-252k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To leverage the power of AI to elevate humans and supercharge work, moving business forever forward.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of product management, software engineering, or technical platform leadership experience, with proven ownership of developer-facing software products, cloud infrastructure, or monitoring tools
- 4+ years of hands-on experience building, scaling, or managing observability platforms, log management systems (e.g., Splunk, ELK), monitoring tooling, or OpenTelemetry (OTEL) telemetry infrastructure
- 4+ years of experience working cross-functionally across complex technical dependencies with multiple engineering, SRE, and architecture teams
- Proven expertise with OpenTelemetry (OTEL) standards, log aggregation, distributed tracing, and enterprise monitoring frameworks
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with a demonstrated ability to articulate complex telemetry and observability architectural concepts clearly to executive stakeholders and software engineers
Desirable
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field (or equivalent practical experience)
- Deep technical expertise with OpenTelemetry (OTEL) standards, high-volume enterprise logging architectures (e.g., Splunk, Datadog, ELK), and cloud-native observability stacks
- Strong background in defining telemetry metrics, conducting usability spikes for developer tools, and using operational monitoring data to drive product decisions
- Experience leveraging AI-powered tools and platforms to automate observability workflows, analyze logs, or enhance developer troubleshooting
- Demonstrated track record of taking platform observability products from initial concept to commercial availability and continuous post-GA iteration
What the job involves
- The Developer Platform is an embedded platform-as-a-service (PaaS) built on highly scalable cloud backend infrastructure and AI capabilities, enabling enterprise applications, AI agents, and core integrations to run securely and reliably
- As a Senior Product Manager (P4) on the Developer Core Services team, you will serve as the strategic product lead responsible for building, scaling, and advancing our platform telemetry, logging, and observability foundation
- You will lead cross-functional execution across backend engineering teams, drive architectural evolutions, and deliver high-throughput observability pipelines, OpenTelemetry (OTEL) integrations, enterprise logging systems (e.g., Splunk), and infrastructure telemetry APIs that underpin the entire developer experience
- Strategic Observability Roadmap & Telemetry Ownership: Define, own, and maintain a multi-quarter product roadmap for platform observability, centralized logging, and metrics gathering—treating internal telemetry architecture as a product to drive system visibility, real-time monitoring, performance analysis, and platform resilience
- Scalable Telemetry & Logging Pipelines: Architect resilient, high-availability telemetry collection pipelines and standards using OpenTelemetry (OTEL) to handle high-volume logs, distributed traces, and metrics to seamlessly power enterprise logging (Splunk) and downstream developer analysis
- Enterprise Monitoring & Dashboarding: Establish and operationalize measurable telemetry KPIs, SLIs/SLOs, and interactive monitoring dashboards in tools like Splunk and cloud-native monitoring tooling to track service reliability, identify performance bottlenecks, and optimize platform adoption
- Cross-Functional Orchestration: Partner deeply with development teams, system integrators, site reliability engineers (SREs), and internal backend engineering groups to align technical dependencies and unlock platform velocity
- Multi-Team Delivery Ownership: Operate as a Senior PM lead guiding multiple scrum teams. Drive end-to-end product delivery from technical design and OTEL spikes through testing, rollout, and post-launch optimization
- Architectural & Operational Governance: Lead technical and business trade-off discussions around legacy logging decommissioning, tenant lifecycle management, security/compliance, and zero-trust telemetry patterns
- Community & Evangelism: Serve as the primary product advocate across developer events, customer advisory boards, and internal forums, effectively translating complex observability capabilities into clear value for software engineers and platform builders
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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