Principal AI Product Designer, Workday
CA$145.9-218.9k
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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$145.9-218.9k
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To leverage the power of AI to elevate humans and supercharge work, moving business forever forward.
Role
Who you are
- 12+ years experience as a UX Designer
- 5+ years of experience developing AI or complex workflow functionality
- Prior experience at a fast growing startup a plus
- Strong understanding of User Experience (UX) Design principles and methodologies
- Technical skills and ability to understand the technical lift and implications of your designs
- Experience with Platform-Level design challenges
- Ensure quality, craft, and efficiency across the design team
- Drive scalable patterns and increased workflow efficiency for the design team
- Work with executive stakeholders to drive vision and product roadmap priorities
- You are excited by the fast pace of a startup and can work on both standard and compressed timelines to deliver great results
- You thrive in ambiguous and complex situations and are great at turning ideas into solutions
- You are opinionated - you don’t just blindly ask customers or data for answers but operate from a hypothesis driven mindset and seek to confirm or pivot as quickly as possible as frequently as necessary until reaching the right solution
- You can operate independently and are self-driven, but at the same time enjoy working and collaborating with teammates
- You are action oriented - forward progress is your #1 priority every day
- You live and follow a “continuous research” mindset - you don’t wait for the feature to start researching - you study our customers and our market every day
- You take pride in your work - you aim to deliver great designs that you’d proudly show off to friends, family, coworkers, or in your portfolio. “Good enough” isn’t in your vocabulary
- You have experience with and enjoy using AI products and are constantly testing out new AI solutions for personal and work use including using AI tools for prototyping and testing
- You follow the latest on AI trends and new releases via newsletters, X, etc
- You are curious and find inspiration in every product and are constantly updating your design toolkit with every product you use
What the job involves
- You will be joining the Evisort AI team, which functions as a startup within Workday
- This is your opportunity to build at the pace of innovation of a startup, while backed by the enormous support and impacting Workday’s incredible customer base of 70M+ users
- In this role you’ll be a part of the Evisort design team at Workday, where you’ll own and lead design and research on product initiatives in the Contract Workflow, Contracts AI, document intelligence and related areas
- Ship world class features with world class experiences to our customers, including for functionality that has no precedent and requires heavy imagination and innovation
- Deeply understand our customer and user base and design best-in-class solutions from first principles for any challenge we seek to solve
- Serve as the designer on product initiatives
- Rapidly design, build, and deploy prototypes, wireframes, and product designs
- Present, test and iterate on designs including incorporating internal and external user feedback
- Conduct and lead user research on your design initiatives
- Participate in and lead design sprints
- Mentor and participate in peer review to help the entire design team level up and contribute great work
- Anticipate and respond to changing market conditions, business requirements, and user needs, with a focus on AI and ML in an enterprise environment
- Deliver outstanding user-centric product solutions that address complex requirements
- Develop relationships with your stakeholders across the org and own the end product quality from early design to final in-product deliverables
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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