Principal Product Manager, Workday
$159.6-282k
Enterprise AI platform for managing HR and finance
Job no longer available
Enterprise AI platform for managing HR and finance
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$159.6-282k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To leverage the power of AI to elevate humans and supercharge work, moving business forever forward.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate will be a strategic problem solver with a deep understanding of Public and Private Cloud technologies, outstanding social skills, and a passion for driving customer success
- Demonstrated ability in either product management or consulting
- Direct experience with Public Cloud providers like AWS and GCP
- Experience with Enterprise Software as a Service (SaaS)
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, proven by the confidence to lead customer engagements and present to large audiences
- Excellent communications and influencing skills across all levels of a large organization, as well as with a diverse set of external partners and collaborators
- An inherently collaborative style that enables you to win the hearts and minds of your peers to efficiently implement a sophisticated product roadmap, with execution often happening across teams
- The sort of personality who thrives in taking ownership and driving initiatives end-to-end in a high-stakes, constantly evolving atmosphere
- Excellent analytical abilities, including exploration, research, and measurement and monitoring
- Easily navigate between technical and business concepts
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or other technical major
- MBA or Master’s degree is a plus
- A consistent track record owning the entire product lifecycle: defining business problems, researching customer needs, prototyping and testing new solutions, working with design and engineering teams, and prioritizing an Agile development backlog
- Platform Product Management Experience
- Sales or Technical Sales experience
What the job involves
- We're the team that drives the product and strategy for Workday’s secret sauce - our technology platform that was crafted from scratch for the cloud
- We are responsible for the complete stack and tools that delivers and supports Workday products across private and public clouds (e.g. on-premise, AWS and GCP)
- We enable Workday's scale: ~50% of Fortune 500 companies, 8000+ customers, 55M+ Workers, ~365B Transactions
- We are seeking a dynamic and progressive Principal Product Manager to lead the evangelism of the Infrastructure platform that enables us to Build, Test and Deploy and Operate Workday on Public and Private Cloud to internal collaborators along with existing and potential customers
- Product Evangelism: Advocate for the benefits and capabilities of Workday’s infrastructure platform to diverse audiences, including current and prospective customers, through various channels such as webinars, conferences, and customer meetings
- Market Research: Conduct comprehensive market analysis to identify customer needs, market trends, and competitive landscape to advise product strategy
- Customer Engagement: Build and maintain positive relationships with key team members, including customers, partners, and industry leaders, to capture feedback and drive product improvements
- Strategic Planning: Develop and implement a strategic roadmap ensuring alignment with company objectives and customer needs
- Partnership: Work closely with cross-functional teams, including engineering, sales, marketing, and customer success, to ensure seamless product delivery and adoption
- Thought Leadership: Produce thought leadership content, including whitepapers, blog posts, and case studies, to highlight the advantages and use cases of Workday’s Infrastructure Platform
- Training and Support: Develop and deliver training programs and materials to educate internal teams and customers on the features and benefits of Workday’s Infrastructure Platform
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 & Executive Chair)Annel began his career at Morgan Stanley as a Corporate Finance Analyst. He then spent nearly 6 years at PeopleSoft as a Senior VP before co-founding Workday in 2005, where he has served as the CEO ever since.
Carl Eschenbach
(CEO)Carl joined Workday in 2022 as Co-CEO, becoming CEO in 2024. He has also been a Partner at Sequoia Capital since 2016. Previously, he spent 14 years at VMware as President and COO and 3 years at Inktomi Corporation as the VP of North America Sales.
Peter Bailis
(CTO)Prior to joining Workday in 2025, People was a VP of Engineering at Google. He also previously founded Sisu Data, where he served as the CEO for over 5 years.
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