Workday
Principal Product Manager, Enterprise Applications
USA, CA, Pleasanton · Principal
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About the role
- We are seeking a highly strategic and experienced Principal Product Manager to shape the future of digital work at Workday.
- You will translate employee and business needs into scalable, secure, high-quality product experiences that advance Workday's strategic goals and operational excellence.
- This role requires a strong combination of product strategy, enterprise technology expertise, executive influence, customer empathy, data-driven decision-making, and AI fluency.
Responsibilities
- We partner closely with teams across Sales, Marketing, Customer Service, HR, Employee Communications, and other functions to deliver seamless, integrated experiences that support business operations and help Workmates do their best work.
- Lead strategic engagements with business stakeholders to understand priorities, define problems, build alignment, and develop business cases and ROI models for roadmap investments.
- Partner with Delivery Managers, Domain Architects, engineering leaders, and other cross-functional partners to drive discovery, proof-of-concept opportunities, technical solution design, and execution.
- Build strong, trusted relationships and influence without direct authority to drive clarity, alignment, accountability, and shared outcomes across a broad stakeholder community.
- Our approach enables our teams to deepen connections, maintain a strong community, and do their best work.
Requirements
- 12+ years of product management, program management, or related experience delivering enterprise applications or digital products.
- 5+ years of experience leading large, high-impact, cross-functional initiatives involving multiple engineering teams, platforms, stakeholders, and dependencies.
- 5+ years of experience working in Agile, Scrum, or similar product-development methodologies.
- Experience delivering employee-facing digital products, such as intranets, mobile applications, collaboration platforms, chatbots, knowledge tools, or other digital workplace capabilities.
- Proven expertise deploying or managing large employee communications platforms, collaboration technologies, productivity tools, or equivalent enterprise SaaS capabilities, preferably within technology companies.
- Experience evaluating vendor or SaaS platforms, including AI-enabled products, against business requirements, technical feasibility, security, privacy, compliance, and ROI criteria.
- Deep understanding of UX principles and the ability to translate employee needs into effective product requirements, workflows, and experiences.
- Exceptional executive communication, stakeholder management, and influence skills, with the ability to tailor complex information for technical and nontechnical audiences.
- Track record of leading through ambiguity, resolving complex problems, and driving accountability for outcomes.
- We know that flexibility can take shape in many ways, so rather than a number of required days in-office each week, we simply spend at least half (50%) of our time each quarter in the office or in the field with our customers, prospects, and partners (depending on role).
- AI domain fluency, including a practical understanding of modern AI capabilities, limitations, governance considerations, and responsible enterprise application.
- Proven ability to use data, analytics, qualitative feedback, and business context to generate insights, recommend priorities, and drive measurable product improvements.
- Strong business-case development and ROI-modeling skills.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Business, Information Technology, or a related field; MBA or advanced degree is a plus.
Nice to have
- Product Management, Scrum, Agile, AI, or related certifications are a plus.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Business, Information Technology, or a related field
- MBA or advanced degree is a plus.
Skills
- Your work days are brighter here.
Compensation
- $196,000 USD - $294,000 USD
- $167,200 USD - $294,000 USD
- In addition, Workday will never ask candidates to pay a recruiting fee, or pay for consulting or coaching services, in order to apply for a job at Workday.
Benefits
- In this pivotal role, you will own the vision, strategy, roadmap, and product outcomes for critical enterprise productivity and collaboration capabilities that impact thousands of Workmates globally.
- Establish and own a compelling product vision and strategic roadmap aligned to Workday's corporate vision, business-unit priorities, cross-company initiatives and product maturity.
- Our Approach to Flexible Work
- This means you'll have the freedom to create a flexible schedule that caters to your business, team, and personal needs, while being intentional to make the most of time spent together.
- Those in our remote "home office" roles also have the opportunity to come together in our offices for important moments that matter.
Company info
- The Digital Employee Experience team is part of Business Technology (BT) delivering innovative, engaging digital experiences for our global workforce.
- We understand the needs and challenges of Workmates and create solutions that improve productivity, engagement, and satisfaction.
- We are a collaborative, dynamic team that values creativity, innovation, customer empathy, and continuous improvement.
Equal opportunity
- Workday is an Equal Opportunity Employer including individuals with disabilities and protected veterans.
- If you require a reasonable accommodation, you may email accommodations@workday.com, as far in advance as possible.
- Please see below for more details including how to request an accommodation as a qualified veteran, due to a disability or for religious reasons, or as otherwise provided under applicable law.
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