Product Manager, Workday
$138.4-207.6k
3-5 days a week in office (Pleasanton, CA)
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
$138.4-207.6k
3-5 days a week in office (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
- 3+ years of product management experience
- 2+ years of product owner experience or working closely with product manager to translate customer and market needs into product deliverables and release support through the entire product life cycle
- 2+ years of experience with one or more of the following areas: access control management, authentication, or related security technologies
- Working knowledge of common compliance security regulations and standards such as NIST Cybersecurity Framework, FedRAMP, etc
- Ability to clearly prioritize and articulate product requirements, as well as develop a vision and strategy for area of ownership
- Ability to break down complex concepts and distill requirements that meet customer needs
- Self-motivated and able to take the initiative without needing a high level of supervision
- Strong written and verbal communication, and presentation skills, with the ability to interact professionally at all levels including customers, executives, and subject matter experts
- Experience with Workday Configurable Security Framework is a plus
- Experience with SaaS and/or cloud infrastructure products and services
- Experienced with Scrum and other agile development methodologies, and general software standards
- Passionate about technology and the Security space
What the job involves
- Security is of the utmost importance for customers migrating to the cloud
- The Security Product Management team at Workday defines the strategy for security features and functionality to scale and strengthen our security platform to support all Workday customers with a rich feature set and controls for access control management solutions and ensuring trust among internal systems
- We’re growing at a fast pace and are looking for folks with a strategic vision and a consistent record for successfully delivering sought-after products to market!
- In a world of evolving digital identity, securing the hybrid workforce of both human users and AI agents is paramount for our customers
- We are defining and building the controls to ensure that everyone—human or machine—operates with the right permissions and has clear, transparent audit trails
- In this role, you'll be on the front lines, responsible for the design and execution of products that help our customers apply Zero Trust and Least Privilege principles through the delivery of more fine-grained access controls and sophisticated governance tools
- Collaborate with Workday's leadership, Customers, Product Management, and Development teams to define requirements that delivers the overall access control and management strategy and roadmap
- Complete AI Agent authorization strategies, proactively addressing evolving A2A (Agent-to-Agent) and MCP (Model Context Protocol) standards
- Represent the customer and be data-driven when evaluating development decisions with engineering teams through design, testing and product/feature release
- Identifying platform solutions or improvements to help tackle customer problems or feedback. Own feature design documents to ensure multiple teams apply the solutions
- Bring together, prioritize, and define requirements (while actively grooming backlog) into executable epics and user stories for engineering
- Build and maintain a prioritized backlog of epics, user stories, and acceptance criteria, based on key collaborator requirements, and persona and use case development
Application process
- End Date: December 30, 2025
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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