Principal Product Manager - Workday AI

Your work days are brighter here.

We’re obsessed with making hard work pay off, for our people, our customers, and the world around us. As a Fortune 500 company and a leading AI platform for managing people, money, and agents, we’re shaping the future of work so teams can reach their potential and focus on what matters most. The minute you join, you’ll feel it. Not just in the products we build, but in how we show up for each other. Our culture is rooted in integrity, empathy, and shared enthusiasm. We’re in this together, tackling big challenges with bold ideas and genuine care. We look for curious minds and courageous collaborators who bring sun-drenched optimism and drive. Whether you're building smarter solutions, supporting customers, or creating a space where everyone belongs, you’ll do meaningful work with Workmates who’ve got your back. In return, we’ll give you the trust to take risks, the tools to grow, the skills to develop and the support of a company invested in you for the long haul. So, if you want to inspire a brighter work day for everyone, including yourself, you’ve found a match in Workday, and we hope to be a match for you too.

About the Team

Join the Workday AI organization, where you’ll be building and supporting state-of-the-art AI capabilities that power Workday’s product suite. You’ll be working with a cross-functional team that ships frequently, iterates rapidly, and is supporting millions of users of Workday’s products.

About the Role

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.

General Responsibilities:

• 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

About You

Basic Qualifications

• 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
   

Other Qualifications:

• 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. 

Workday Pay Transparency Statement

The annualized base salary ranges for the primary location and any additional locations are listed below.  Workday pay ranges vary based on work location. As a part of the total compensation package, this role may be eligible for the Workday Bonus Plan or a role-specific commission/bonus, as well as annual refresh stock grants. Recruiters can share more detail during the hiring process. Each candidate’s compensation offer will be based on multiple factors including, but not limited to, geography, experience, skills, job duties, and business need, among other things. For more information regarding Workday’s comprehensive benefits, please click here.

Primary Location: USA.CA.Pleasanton

 

Primary Location Base Pay Range: $192,000 USD - $288,000 USD

 

Additional US Location(s) Base Pay Range: $164,900 USD - $288,000 USD

Additional Considerations:

If performed in Colorado, the pay range for this job is $173,600 - $260,400 USD based on min and max pay range for that role if performed in CO.

12/05/2025

Our Approach to Flexible Work
 

With Flex Work, we’re combining the best of both worlds: in-person time and remote. Our approach enables our teams to deepen connections, maintain a strong community, and do their best work. 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). 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.

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