Principal Product Manager, Workday
Workday AI
$192-288k
Salary applicable to Pleasanton, CA applicants only
More information about location
Office located in Pleasanton, CA
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
$192-288k
Salary applicable to Pleasanton, CA applicants only
More information about location
Office located in Pleasanton, CA
1001+ employees
Company mission
To leverage the power of AI to elevate humans and supercharge work, moving business forever forward.
Role
Who you are
- 7+ years of product management experience
- 5+ years of experience with SaaS/B2B
- Technically proficient (even if not a coder) on how AI and LLM-powered technology works
- Passion and empathy for customers and a proven track record as a customer advocate
- Experience managing stakeholders and working collaboratively and cross functionally with a product portfolio
- Experience bringing new product offerings to market
- Steadfast focus on user-centric design, data, research, and well-honed judgment
- Bias for decisions and actions and comfortable making big decisions on the minimal amount of information needed for it
- Ability to operate successfully across multiple functions, influence senior executives and peers alike, and mediate across various partners
- Good communication and presentation abilities, both written and verbal
- Previous experience at AI centric or data centric companies a plus
- Previous early stage startup experience a plus
- You’ll be a great fit (and make sure to highlight these experiences to us) if:
- You’ve worked in unstructured, fast moving environments like early stage startups, and thrived in it
- You are passionately following the latest in AI products and emerging technologies and trying them out, exploring possibilities, and have experimented with many of the technologies on your own
- You are driven to action, progress, and decisions and are comfortable pushing on product deliveries with best available incomplete information and get your motivation from building/delivering
- You are organized and capable of tracking dozens of moving pieces and managing the many stakeholders that you work with at a company like Workday
- You excel at learning and understanding customer pain points quickly based on public information, internal information, and customer conversations, and can get up to speed on complex customer painpoints in a fraction of the time a typical PM would
- You’re excited to build products that bring the latest AI technology to Workday’s massive customer base
What the job involves
- We are looking for a dynamic Principal Product Manager to own the delivery of AI-powered agents within Workday. You will either be building customer-facing agents or building infrastructure and frameworks that Workday’s application team can use to deploy to customers..
- You will be responsible for working at high velocity to experiment, innovate, develop, iterate and scale AI agents, collaborating closely with domain-specific Product Managers to maximize the impact of our technology.
- This role requires a unique combination of execution speed, inspiration and a deep curiosity about emerging AI techniques. You will play a key role in shaping our approach to AI agents, ensuring we deliver cutting-edge solutions that drive real business value
- Build and ship state of the art AI capabilities or infrastructure
- Identify highest impact, highest ROI opportunities for AI at Workday, advocate for them within the org, and build or enable other teams to build these capabilities
- Interface with customers to validate our solutions, execute discovery work and ensure we are prioritizing the right customer problems
- Be the product champion externally, and voice of the customer internally
- Lead through influence and apply strategic understanding of the company's big picture, articulating a compelling vision for AI agents and their role in evolving our customers' workdays
- Manage Early Adopter programs across multiple AI initiatives to ensure customer value, referenceability, critical lessons, and risk mitigation
- Collaborate with development teams in flight to validate value for customers, drive adoption, and enable the field, CX, implementers on our AI work
- Communicate new capabilities to various audiences clearly and in an understandable way for them
- Work with the product teams to identify value outcomes and measurable metrics to quantify the value of our AI investments
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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