Principal Product Manager, Workday
Accounting Center
CA$162.7-244.1k
Additional US Location(s) Base Pay Range: $164,900 USD - $288,000 USD
Enterprise AI platform for managing HR and finance
Open for applications
Enterprise AI platform for managing HR and finance
1001+ employees
Open for applications
CA$162.7-244.1k
Additional US Location(s) Base Pay Range: $164,900 USD - $288,000 USD
1001+ employees
Company mission
To leverage the power of AI to elevate humans and supercharge work, moving business forever forward.
Role
Who you are
- A bachelor's degree, or at least 7 years of proven experience in a Product Management or Product Owner role, responsible for translating market needs into product deliverables through the entire product lifecycle
- A bachelor's degree, or at least 5 years of proven experience in a Product Management or Product Owner role, responsible for translating market needs into product deliverables through the entire product lifecycle
- Comprehensive understanding of the reporting and analytics needs of the office of the CFO
- Experience with Reporting or BI/Analytics tools
- Experience defining or contributing to the strategy for managing performance and scale of a financial management suite or similar SaaS system
- Ability to work across multiple stakeholders and drive product success
- A sophisticated understanding of systems thinking, with the ability to predict how a change in one part of an ecosystem will impact many other parts
- Always bring data-informed arguments to the forefront
- Ability to inspire software developers to enthusiastically build to your roadmap
- Deeply motivated by the enormous responsibility of ensuring scalable product and infrastructure features and able to effectively evangelize across organizations to effect change
- Demonstrated flexibility, skill, and courage in making decisions amidst a complex set of constraints and shifting market dynamics
- Skilled at crafting scalable, reliable, business-critical systems for large customers
- Ability to define, drive, and deliver products from a blank slate, creating innovative solutions in areas with high ambiguity and no prior blueprint
- Experience with enterprise SaaS, in-memory object graph systems, cloud architecture, and automation technologies a plus
What the job involves
- Are you ready to lead the future of financial data for the world's leading companies?
- This role places you at the heart of our strategy to redefine the customer experience for Workday Financials! You will first lead the Accounting Center, and after developing a deep understanding of its powerful, configurable data engine, that expertise will position you to become a key product lead partner in developing our next major innovation: a no-code Cost and Profitability Management platform
- This is a rare opportunity to not just lead a high-growth product, but to use your knowledge to transform the implementation experience and empower our customers to own their solutions!
- In this strategic capacity, you will solve our most significant product challenges, creating transparency from ambiguity and guiding strategy in uncharted territory
- You will build and lead formal networks across the organization, uniting product groups and guiding company leaders to drive alignment on critical priorities. Applying deep customer insights, you will pioneer innovation and steer products from ideation through delivery
- Furthermore, you will mentor and coach other product managers, actively up-skilling the entire team and fostering the next generation of product leaders at Workday
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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