Senior Director, AI and Data Product Management – Data Cloud

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About the Team

The Data Cloud organization is at the forefront of Workdays next major wave of innovation driven by a bold mandate to build the industrys first true Platform for Agents. We are a high-energy ambitious team that balances Workdays deep foundational expertise with fresh forward-thinking perspectives to accelerate our pace of delivery and unlock massive new commercial value. By leveraging Workdays unique business context trusted data and identity guardrails we are building the critical engine that will power the future of AI and agentic workflows across the enterprise. As a team we value organizational clarity deep cross-functional collaboration and rapid execution working together to evolve our architecture and aggressively scale our impact in the market.

The Data Cloud organization is seeking a visionary product leader to serve as the Senior Director AI and Data PM. This individual will sit at the critical intersection of generative AI enterprise data and autonomous workflows. You will be responsible for defining how advanced agentic capabilities natively consume and interact with Workdays Data Cloud ensuring our platform is the premier destination for building and deploying trusted enterprise-grade AI agents.

About the Role

As the Senior Director of AI and Data Product Management you will own the product strategy roadmap and execution for agentic workloads within the Data Cloud. You will translate complex AI use cases into robust data platform requirements define the toolkits that empower autonomous action and establish the trust and evaluation frameworks necessary to deploy AI securely at an enterprise scale.

Agentic Strategy & Vision

• Platform for Agents Roadmap: Define the product vision and capabilities required to support both analytical agents (conversational reasoning over data) and operational agents (secure multi-step actions and state changes) on the Data Cloud.

• Agent Requirements Gathering: Partner closely with internal Workday application teams first-party AI developers and key enterprise customers to deeply understand and capture the data semantic and routing requirements necessary to power next-generation agents.

• Use-Case Commercialization: Bridge the gap between AI research and commercial reality ensuring new agentic capabilities directly drive adoption continuous compute consumption and value realization for our premium Data Cloud offerings.

MCP Toolkits & Skill Orchestration

• Define Action Schemas: Lead the product definition for Model Context Protocol (MCP) toolkits and skills natively hosted within the Data Cloud empowering agents to dynamically discover and execute authorized enterprise tasks.

• The Secure Write-Path: Design the product guardrails for operational agents defining how multi-step transactions staging states and native rollbacks are securely orchestrated back into the core Workday ecosystem.

• API & Framework Ecosystem: Ensure that all AI tools semantic models and routing rules are engine-agnostic and consumable via standard APIs fueling a robust 1P and 3P developer ecosystem.

Evaluation Frameworks & AI Trust

• Align Eval Frameworks: Establish and own the rigorous LLM and agent evaluation (eval) frameworks for the Data Cloud. Define the metrics for accuracy deterministic grounding and hallucination mitigation.

• Performance & Security Gating: Ensure all AI capabilities adhere to Workdays sacrosanct dimensions of engine readiness: Performance Coverage Correctness and Security.

• Immutable Auditability: Drive product requirements for AI telemetry and trust layers ensuring every reasoning path and automated state change generates an immutable audit trail for enterprise financial and HR compliance.

Cross-Functional Leadership

• AI & Data Synergy: Act as the primary connective tissue between Data Cloud engineering specialized AI/ML teams and Workdays broader product organization to ensure seamless platform integration.

• Market & Competitive Pulse: Maintain a deep understanding of the rapidly evolving AI landscape evaluating emerging frameworks orchestration layers and competitive platforms to keep Workdays Data Cloud strategy steps ahead of the market.

• Executive Storytelling: Translate complex AI/ML platform capabilities into clear compelling narratives for executive leadership go-to-market teams and industry analysts.

About You

Basic Qualifications:

• 10 years of experience in product management AI/ML strategy data platforms technology or equivalent

• BA BS or equivalent degree in Computer Science Cognitive Science Business or a related field

Other Qualifications:

• Deep experience in an enterprise SaaS environment with a strong focus on platform ecosystems

• Generative AI LLM evaluation or agentic framework (MCP) focused experience or experience working closely with applied AI and cross-functional ML teams

• Demonstrated experience in gathering complex technical requirements and defining API toolkits or skills for autonomous workflows

• Ability to collaborate across teams to create strategic storyboards go-to-market narratives and quarterly board materials for relevant parties

• Ability to learn quickly within a fast-paced team including highly technical topics such as AI trust frameworks and data security protocols

• Ability to handle interpersonal relationships with a high degree of emotional intelligence and self-awareness

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.

Primary Location:

Primary Location Base Pay Range: $272000 USD - $408000 USD

Additional US Location(s) Base Pay Range: $220400 USD - $408000 USD

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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