Principal Product Manager, Workday
Agent Platform
CA$162.8-244.2k
US annual salary: $167,200 USD - $264,000 USD dependent on location
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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
CA$162.8-244.2k
US annual salary: $167,200 USD - $264,000 USD dependent on location
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
- 11+ years of product management experience
- 5+ years of experience with SaaS/B2B
- Technically proficient (even if not a coder) with AI and LLM-powered technology
- Passion and empathy for customers and a proven track record as a customer advocate
- Mastery in leading Cross-Team Collaboration, effectively working and influencing cross-functionally to define and deliver complex product strategies and initiatives
- Proven ability to be a visionary Customer Advocate, deeply understanding and anticipating customer needs in product strategy and decisions, and driving a customer-obsessed culture throughout the organization
- Deep mastery of Customer Empathy, proactively identifying fundamental customer pain points and translating them into transformative product strategies and innovative user experiences
- Exceptional Strategic Thinking skills, shaping the long-term vision and direction of a product portfolio or business unit
- 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
- 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 have a bias for action and progress
- 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 pain points in a fraction of the time a typical PM would
What the job involves
- Workday's Agent Platform team is at the forefront of our AI innovation, building the foundation that enables intelligent, agentic experiences across the entire Workday ecosystem
- We're a fast-moving team tackling some of the most exciting challenges in enterprise software, unleashing the future of work with an AI foundation that accelerates customer adoption and empowers developers to accelerate agent innovation with a secure & trusted platform
- We're looking for a Principal Product Manager to design key infrastructure for governing agents to ensure they are secure and trustworthy at scale
- Your focus: architecting the next generation of agent security and the evolution of agent tools management
- How do we make it easy for developers to build secured, governed agents and customers to manage access controls?
- This role demands velocity, curiosity about AI security, and the ability to translate complex technical problems into product solutions that give enterprises confidence to adopt agentic AI
- Build and ship state-of-the-art AI infrastructure that enables trusted agent deployment
- 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 customer validation 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 Agent Platform
- Communicate new capabilities to various audiences clearly and in an understandable way for them
Application process
- End Date: April 22, 2026
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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