Principal Product Manager, Finance Applications

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About the Team

About the Role

The Principal Product Manager for Finance Applications will be a pivotal leader defining and driving our AI-first strategy for the finance application ecosystem. This forward-thinking role is instrumental in orchestrating Workdays product suite custom innovations and third-party technologies to construct a premier intelligent financial platform. By embedding intelligent automation predictive analytics and generative AI into the core of our financial operations you will unlock unprecedented business value and create truly streamlined user experiences. The Product Manager will be part of Business Technology under Product & Technology responsible for defining our product roadmap designing digital and agentic finance experience leveraging AI agentic and core technologies .

Job Duties:

• AI-First Product Vision Strategy and Roadmap: Architect and champion a long-term product roadmap for our Finance Application ecosystem centered on AI and Machine Learning.
• Intelligent Product Lifecycle Management: Lead the end-to-end product lifecycle for initiatives in finance from ideation and business case development to defining requirements and measuring ROI.
• Team Leadership & AI Culture: Lead mentor and grow a high-performing team of product managers. Foster an AI-centric approach encouraging continuous learning rapid experimentation and a deep understanding of how to responsibly build and deploy intelligent systems.
• Executive & Customer Partnership: Serve as the lead advisor to leadership on the art of the possible with AI in Finance. Translate sophisticated financial challenges into solvable problems and articulate a clear vision that secures consensus and drives cross-functional alignment.
• Influence & Innovation: Partner closely with Workdays product teams to influence the future finance product roadmap. Proactively lead release cycles to not only adopt new features but to be a leading voice in their creation and application.
• Ecosystem & Vendor Strategy: Evaluate and lead a portfolio of technology partners and vendors ensuring our ecosystem is composed of best-in-class solutions that align with our strategic goals.

About You

Basic Qualifications:

• 10 years of experience in product management with a significant focus on shipping enterprise-level technology-powered products in a B2B or SaaS environment.

• 5 years of direct experience leading and launching AI/ML-powered products. You have a track record of taking systems from concept to scaled production.

• 5 years of ERP implementation domain expertise in core finance and accounting processes (such as SourcingInvoicing & Billing ) with best practices and a vision for how AI can fundamentally transform them.

Other Qualifications:

• Managing a finance roadmap through strategic collaboration with Business stakeholders and Product & Technology (P&T) teams.

• Consistent record to successfully integrate ERP systems (preferably Workday) with other enterprise applications and data platforms

• Lead user stories and manage story slotting to ensure alignment with defined sprint cycles and delivery timelines.

• Shown experience Leading high-performing agile product teams.

• Outstanding problem-solving skills with the ability to translate ambiguous business problems into concrete product requirements and technical specifications.

• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills with proven experience communicating complex technical concepts and product strategies to senior executives.

• Familiarity with AI technology stack including MLOps data pipelines and foundational models (LLMs).

• Workday Financials certification(s) (e.g. FDM Core Financials Adaptive Planning) are highly preferred.

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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 candidates 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 Workdays comprehensive benefits please click here.

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