Senior Product Manager, Workday
Developer Platform Core Services
$168-252k
Enterprise AI platform for managing HR, finance & IT
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Enterprise AI platform for managing HR, finance & IT
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$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 or cloud platform infrastructure
- 4+ years of experience working cross-functionally across complex technical dependencies with multiple engineering and architecture teams
- 4+ years of hands-on experience building, scaling, or managing backend cloud infrastructure, core platform services, distributed systems, or enterprise APIs
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with a demonstrated ability to articulate complex architectural concepts clearly to both executive stakeholders and software engineers
Desirable
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field (or equivalent practical experience)
- Experience with building platform as a service, cloud-native architectures, microservices, containerized deployment pipelines, and observability tooling
- Strong analytical background with experience defining product telemetry, running developer usability spikes, and leveraging operational metrics to guide decisions
- Demonstrated experience leveraging AI-powered tools and platforms to inform product strategy, automate developer workflows, or enhance builder satisfaction
- High level of initiative and a track record of taking products from initial concept to commercial availability and post-GA iteration
What the job involves
- As a Senior Product Manager on the Developer Core Services team, you will serve as a strategic product lead responsible for building and scaling the core backend infrastructure and platform foundation that empowers developers
- You will lead cross-functional execution across backend engineering teams, drive architectural evolutions, and deliver high-throughput distributed services, application lifecycle management, telemetry pipelines, and infrastructure APIs that underpin the entire developer experience
- Strategic Infrastructure Roadmap & Core Services Ownership: Define, own, and maintain a multi-quarter product roadmap for core backend services—treating internal platform architecture as a product by gathering technical requirements from engineering and system architects to drive platform scalability and resilience
- Cross-Functional Orchestration: Partner deeply with development teams, partners, system integrators, and internal 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 design, and spikes through testing, rollout, and post-launch optimization
- Scalable Backend Infrastructure: Architect resilient, high-availability distributed systems and core APIs that power high-volume transactions and seamlessly support downstream developer experience tooling and agentic AI workflows
- Architectural & Operational Governance: Lead technical and business trade-off discussions around legacy decommissioning, tenant lifecycle management, security/government compliance, and system resiliency metrics
- Community & Evangelism: Serve as the primary product advocate across developer events, customer advisory boards, and internal forums, effectively translating complex technical capability into clear developer value
- Manage Enterprise Governance & Scale: Enable developers to move fast safely by building guardrails into the platform tools, ensuring security compliance, zero-trust patterns, and automated test environments are built-in
- Define & Monitor Core Metrics: Establish and operationalize measurable KPIs tracking developer satisfaction, service reliability, and self-service platform adoption
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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