Senior Product Advisor, Workday
Global Payroll, Product Acceleration & Optimization
$132-198k
Additional CAN Location(s) Base Pay Range: $122,100 - $183,100 CAD
Enterprise AI platform for managing HR and finance
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Enterprise AI platform for managing HR and finance
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$132-198k
Additional CAN Location(s) Base Pay Range: $122,100 - $183,100 CAD
1001+ employees
Company mission
To leverage the power of AI to elevate humans and supercharge work, moving business forever forward.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years experience with domain expertise in enterprise software applications, specifically Workday Payroll native countries (US, CAN, UKI and AUS) with a background of the Global Payroll Connector
- 5+ years deploying or supporting Payroll software
- Is adaptable and can adjust to changing circumstances and priorities
- Communicates and collaborates effectively
- Learns new technologies and related product areas quickly
- Can handle multiple competing priorities
- Has strong problem-solving abilities
- Explains technical concepts to those with less technical knowledge
- Mentors consultants and leads small teams
- Willing to travel up to 25% of the time
What the job involves
- Product Acceleration and Optimization (PAO) is an organization within our Product & Technology team. Our mission is to enable customers and our services ecosystem to adopt Workday products and solutions in the most effective and efficient manner and with the highest quality to ensure lasting customer success
- We are looking for someone who is passionate about partnering with our Product, Sales and deployment consulting partners enabling the successful implementation of Global Payroll, which includes US Pay, CAN Pay, UKI Pay and AUS Pay and other related Workday products
- The Sr. Product Advisor drives enablement through the following focus areas:
- Engaging with Early Adopter Customers and Strategic Customers in product escalations and customer corporate visits (as needed)
- Supporting New Offering Launches and Acquisitions, enabling consultants, managing Product Leads aligned to your product area
- Advising Product Managers and Development on customer use cases, deployment considerations to ensure the launch of solid minimum viable products
- Engaging in Innovative Sales Pursuits
- As a Sr Product Advisor, you will:
- Drive deployment efficiency by influencing the product roadmap as an advocate of Customer and Services feedback
- Advise on and influence Product and Development teams on the product design (oCHRO business challenges, use cases and requirements for a solid minimum viable product) and deployability, advocating for Services and Customer feedback
- Strategize how to leverage agentic technology to reduce deployment cost and effort
- Work with strategic customers deploying new products to ensure successful deployments
- Develop early deployment guidance on New Offering Launches and Acquisitions
- Collaborate with the broader Workday ecosystem to identify, architect and build technical solutions to reduce deployment efforts and escalations
- Support strategic sales opportunities involving new products, features, or complex solutions
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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