Principal Product Manager, Enterprise Applications

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Were 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 were shaping the future of work so teams can reach their potential and focus on what matters most. The minute you join youll 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. Were 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 youre building smarter solutions supporting customers or creating a space where everyone belongs youll do meaningful work with Workmates whove got your return well 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 youve found a match in Workday and we hope to be a match for you too.

About the Team

About the Role

We are seeking a highly strategic and experienced Principal Product Manager to shape the future of digital 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.

You will lead transformative initiatives across a complex internal ecosystem partnering with business stakeholders engineering architecture security legal procurement vendors and executive leadership. You will translate employee and business needs into scalable secure high-quality product experiences that advance Workdays 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. You will identify opportunities to responsibly apply modern AI capabilities to improve workflows employee experiences adoption and business outcomes while balancing usability security risk compliance and return on investment.

Job Duties:

• Establish and own a compelling product vision and strategic roadmap aligned to Workdays corporate vision business-unit priorities cross-company initiatives and product maturity.

• Lead strategic engagements with business stakeholders to understand priorities define problems build alignment and develop business cases and ROI models for roadmap investments.

• Define and measure product success through adoption usage employee experience operational efficiency reliability cost risk and other relevant KPIs.

• Serve as the voice of the customer for employees and business stakeholders conducting regular strategic engagements to understand user priorities pain points and improvement opportunities.

• Leverage AI-powered tools and product analytics to synthesize employee feedback usage data market trends into clear problem definitions product opportunities and value hypotheses.

• Prioritize product features technical issue resolution technical debt reduction and vendor capabilities based on business value user impact risk feasibility and highest organizational impact.

• Translate strategic initiatives into clear product requirements user stories acceptance criteria release plans and measurable outcomes for globally distributed engineering and Scrum teams.

• 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.

AI and Enterprise Technology Leadership:

• Maintain current knowledge of modern AI capabilities limitations and emerging practices particularly as they relate to enterprise SaaS products agents natural-language interfaces automated insights recommendations and AI-driven analytics.

• Identify and prioritize practical AI opportunities that create measurable value for Workmates and the business.

• Evaluate vendor and SaaS AI capabilities critically distinguishing deployable value-creating features from marketing claims and ensuring alignment with business needs enterprise data security privacy compliance and architecture requirements.

Cross-Functional Influence and Operational Excellence:

• Build strong trusted relationships and influence without direct authority to drive clarity alignment accountability and shared outcomes across a broad stakeholder community.

• Navigate and contribute to enterprise governance processes including security reviews legal and privacy approvals architecture governance procurement vendor management and budget or spending oversight where applicable.

About You

Basic Qualifications:

• 12 years of product management program management or related experience delivering enterprise applications or digital products.

• 5 years of experience owning product vision strategy roadmaps backlog prioritization and end-to-end product delivery in a complex enterprise environment.

• 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.

Other Qualifications:

• 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.

• AI domain fluency including a practical understanding of modern AI capabilities limitations governance considerations and responsible enterprise application.

• Experience evaluating vendor or SaaS platforms including AI-enabled products against business requirements technical feasibility security privacy compliance and ROI criteria.

• 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.

• 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.

• Product Management Scrum Agile AI or related certifications are a plus.

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Business Information Technology or a related field; MBA or advanced degree is a plus.

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 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.

Our Approach to Flexible Work

With Flex Work were 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 youll 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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