Senior Product Manager, Core Financials AI

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About the Team

The Core Financial Accounting Product Management team at Workday is at the center of how we bring AI into the Office of the CFO. We empower customers with intuitive experiences continuous innovation and AI-driven business compliance and operational efficiency across Workday Financials.

Workday Financials is a product organization that is always evolving. We are a team of product-minded technologists who are passionate about making life better for finance professionals and everyone who interacts with the Office of the CFO. We partner closely with the Agent Platform and broader AI teams to design and deliver agentic AI-powered experiences on top of our Core Financials foundation.

We use AI tools such as Cursor and large language models to build finance-focused agent skills that help customers automate repetitive work improve decision quality and unlock new insights. If you enjoy collaborating with a supportive team that is always looking for fresh ways to innovate with new tools frameworks and processes this is a great place to grow your career.

About the Role

As a Senior Product Manager for Core Financials AI you will lead the definition and delivery of AI-powered capabilities and agent skills that transform how finance teams use Workday Financials. Youll sit at the intersection of AI and accounting: owning AI use cases that span core accounting workflows and ensuring they are understood trusted and adopted by customers at scale.

You will either build finance-focused customer-facing agents on top of Workdays Agent Platform or define the underlying capabilities and patterns that help application teams bring Core Financials AI skills to market quickly and consistently. Youll work at high velocity with machine learning engineering AI platform and financials domain product partners to turn emerging AI techniques into clear product narratives scalable solutions and measurable business outcomes.

This role calls for strong product judgment deep curiosity about AI and agentic systems and a genuine interest in financial workflows. You will help define how Workday positions builds and delivers next-generation Core Financials with AI and agentsensuring innovation lands with clarity credibility and purpose for the Office of the CFO.

About You

• Owning the vision strategy and roadmap for AI-powered capabilities and agent skills within Core Financials grounded in the needs of CFOs controllers and accounting teams

• Identifying the highest-impact highest-ROI AI opportunities in Core Financials advocating for them within Workday and building or enabling other teams to build these capabilities

• Partnering with AI and Agent Platform teams to design secure governed and trustworthy agentic experiences tailored to financial use cases

• Developing a deep understanding of Workday Core Financials and adjacent products and using that knowledge to define AI/agent use cases that are technically feasible and financially meaningful

• Working closely with engineering ML UX and content teams to define product requirements experiment with AI/LLM-powered solutions and ship production-grade featuresnot just prototypes

• Interfacing with customers to run discovery validate concepts and operate early adopter/validation programs that de-risk AI investments and ensure customer value and referenceability

• Defining value outcomes and success metrics for Core Financials AI investments and using data and research to inform prioritization and iteration

• Partnering with other product teams across Financials and the wider Workday portfolio to ensure agent skills compose well respect controls and compliance needs and feel cohesive across experiences

• Acting as the product champion for Core Financials AI: clearly communicating the vision roadmap and new capabilities to internal stakeholders field teams and customers

• Mentoring and coaching other product managers who are exploring AI and agent use cases in financial domains and helping to uplevel AI product practices across the team

About You

Basic Qualifications

• 5 years of experience in product management including end-to-end ownership of product or feature lifecycles

• 5 years of experience with SaaS/B2B products

• Technically proficient (even if not a coder) with AI and LLM-powered technology (e.g. understanding agent architectures LLM capabilities/limitations prompt patterns and evaluation approaches)

• Experience as a product owner enterprise financials systems analyst or functional consultant working on ERP financial management accounting or closely related financial systems

Other Qualifications

• Skilled in decision making and creative problem-solving with the ability to evaluate complex situations weigh trade-offs and select the best course of action from multiple alternatives. You bring creativity and sound judgment to ambiguous challenges and develop proactive solutions that move the product and team forward.

• Demonstrated strength in cross-team collaboration and operational coordination with experience leading complex initiatives across multiple functions (e.g. ML platform application product teams and go-to-market). You are organized capable of tracking many moving pieces and can bring together diverse teams to deliver results on time and with quality.

• Experienced in business influence with the ability to synthesize complex inputsfrom finance stakeholders AI platform constraints and customer feedbackinto a compelling AI product strategy and direction for Core Financials. You build buy-in from team members contributors and partners and you can articulate a clear vision.

• Comprehensive understanding of the reporting and analytics needs of the Office of the CFO and how AI and agents can augment tasks like close reconciliation reporting and analysis.

• Passionate about following the latest in AI products and emerging technologies with hands-on experience exploring and experimenting with tools such as large language models retrieval-augmented generation and agent frameworks.

• Strong data analysis skills: you use product analytics usage data and qualitative research to derive actionable insights that inform AI use-case selection prioritization and iteration and to measure the impact of AI features in production.

• Comfortable engaging in technical discussions with engineering and ML partners (e.g. trade-offs between retrieval vs. fine-tuning safety/guardrail approaches performance and cost considerations) even if you are not writing code day-to-day.

• A deeply empathetic customer advocate with a history of understanding complex customer pain points quickly based on public information internal data and customer conversationsand translating them into differentiated AI-powered experiences for enterprise users.

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 Workdayscomprehensive benefits in Canada please click here. For more information regarding Workdays comprehensive benefits in the US please click here.

Primary Location:

Primary Location Base Pay Range: $168000 USD - $252000 USD

Additional CAN Location(s) Base Pay Range: $135700 - $203500 CAD

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