Principal Partner Value Advisor

Socket.dev; Pleasanton (CA); Hybrid; USD 122,000 - 256,000; Full time

Job summary

Workday is seeking a Principal/Sr. Principal Partner Value Advisor to drive value engagements with Global System Integrators and strategic partners. You’ll build ROI frameworks, executive-ready business cases, and value narratives that translate Workday and AI capabilities into measurable client outcomes.

You will partner with AI, GSI leaders, and field teams to prioritize use cases, shape platform investments, and ensure a compelling financial narrative across HR, Finance, and AI domains.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in Value Management, Management Consulting, or enterprise AI strategy at a major firm or in a related role.
• Experience building executive-ready business cases and ROI models for enterprise software spanning HR/Finance/AI.
• Strong stakeholder engagement with CFOs, CHROs, CIOs and GSI partners.
• Proven ability to translate financial/value data into actionable client conversations.

Responsibilities

• Build ROI frameworks, value models, and business case templates for partner desks.
• Develop persona-based value narratives (CIO, CFO, CHRO) for measurable outcomes.
• Prepare content to support joint client engagements with partner organizations.
• Collaborate with GPO, Solution Consulting, and Product teams to align strategy.
• Quantify outcomes and support field readiness for partner conversations.

Skills

ROI models

Value frameworks

Executive communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

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

The Partner AI Experience team is Workday's dedicated investment in accelerating our most strategic GSI and Ecosystem partnerships. Working alongside the Global Partner Organization (GPO), this team serves as the technical, functional, and quantitative experts, providing the enablement infrastructure, product intelligence, and go-to-market support that allows our partners to build and sell Workday AI with confidence and speed.

Each pod is aligned to a single strategic GSI or Ecosystem motion and staffed with specialists across the oCIO, oCHRO, and oCFO domains, along with a dedicated Business Value Architect. The pod works across the partner's SC teams, architects, offering leaders, and value desks to ensure the partner's Workday practice is equipped, differentiated, and positioned to grow.

About the Role

As a Principal Partner Value Advisor within the Partner AI Experience team, you are the quantitative and qualitative engine of your pod. Where the pod's architects and advisors build technical and functional fluency within the partner's practice, you build financial and strategic conviction — equipping the partner's value desk, SC teams, and practice leaders with the ROI frameworks, business cases, and agentic consumption models they need to make smart investment decisions and drive Workday-led transformations at scale.

This role sits at the intersection of value engineering, partner activation, and platform strategy. You will work closely with your AI Pod Manager and alongside Partner AI Architects and Advisors to ensure every conversation the partner has with a customer — about agentic and core Workday — is grounded in compelling, quantified business outcomes. You will also be a key resource for the partner's own value desk, helping them build the capability to run Workday-specific value conversations independently.

This role is well-suited to a value-focused leader who combines strong financial and analytical skills with executive presence, storytelling, and a highly collaborative, cross-functional working style.

Key Responsibilities

Partner Value Activation

• Build and deliver Workday-specific ROI frameworks, value models, and business case templates that the partner's value desk and SC teams can use independently in their client conversations.
• Develop persona-based value narratives (CIO, CFO, CHRO) that translate Workday's AI and platform capabilities into measurable business outcomes (e.g., productivity gains, cost reduction, faster decision-making, workforce transformation).
• Equip partner teams to articulate the financial value of Workday's unified architecture across HR, Finance, and AI — including the cost and risk of stitching together disparate systems and generic AI models via APIs versus the compounding benefit of native, connected data.

Agentic AI & Platform Investment Guidance

• Partner with GSI practice leadership to frame the opportunity of building on Sana, including where to start, how to prioritize agentic use cases, and how to sequence investment alongside broader platform strategy.
• Explore how the agentic economy is reshaping services and delivery models, and where Workday's platform positions the partner to lead that evolution within their practice.
• Identify whitespace in the partner's client base where agentic workflows offer the highest return, helping the partner prioritize platform investment and go-to-market focus.
• Identify and refine industry-specific use cases where the partner can build differentiated, partner-owned solutions on Workday's platform, creating IP that benefits both the partner's practice and Workday's position in that vertical.
• Translate Workday's agentic and AI capabilities into high-return use cases for the partner's key industry verticals, spanning finance automation, HR service delivery, and intelligent workforce management.

Business Case Development & Field Alignment

• Develop compelling, executive-ready business cases and value narratives that connect Workday's capabilities — including agentic solutions and intelligent automation — to measurable outcomes the partner's teams can take to their customers.
• Arm Workday's Forward Deployed and field teams with partner-specific value content, ROI frameworks, and business case materials to support joint Workday-partner client engagements.
• Bring partner-built solutions and industry-specific use cases back into Workday's field ecosystem, ensuring joint customers benefit from the partner's IP and Workday sellers can confidently position what the partner has built.
• Capture and codify outcome data, benchmarks, and proof points from Workday's customer base to continually strengthen the partner's value conversations.
• Serve as a first line of defense for the partner's value and business case conversations — fielding ROI objections, financial questions, and value challenges; and ensuring partner teams have the quantitative depth and positioning to move forward with confidence.

About You

Basic Qualifications

Principal, Partner Value Advisor

• 7+ years in Value Management, Management Consulting (e.g., Big 4 or MBB), or enterprise AI transformation and strategy at Workday or a comparable enterprise software or consulting organization.
• Demonstrated experience building executive-ready business cases, ROI models, and value frameworks for enterprise software, ideally spanning HR, Finance, and/or AI capabilities.
• Experience working with or within Global System Integrators, large SIs, or strategic consulting partners — either on the vendor side or from within a GSI practice.

Sr. Principal, Partner Value Advisor

• 5+ years in Value Management, Management Consulting (e.g., Big 4 or MBB), or enterprise AI transformation and strategy at Workday or a comparable enterprise software or consulting organization.
• Demonstrated experience building executive-ready business cases, ROI models, and value frameworks for enterprise software, ideally spanning HR, Finance, and/or AI capabilities.
• Experience working with or within Global System Integrators, large SIs, or strategic consulting partners — either on the vendor side or from within a GSI practice.

Other Qualifications

• Strong financial and analytical skills, including experience with ROI/NPV analysis, productivity modeling, cost-benefit frameworks, and translating platform capabilities into quantified business outcomes.
• Ability to engage credibly with GSI practice leadership, CFOs, CHROs, and CIOs as a peer and trusted advisor, grounded in deep Workday expertise, prior consulting experience, or both.
• Proven communication and storytelling skills, with the ability to distill complex financial and technical topics into simple, compelling narratives for both executive and practitioner audiences.
• Familiarity with Workday's product portfolio and roadmap — particularly Sana, Data Cloud, and agentic capabilities — is a strong plus; deep Workday product knowledge is highly valued.
• Collaborative working style with demonstrated experience coordinating across organizations such as GPO, Solution Consulting, Product & Technology, and Forward Deployed teams.
• Energized by building in a fast-moving, investment-stage environment where the frameworks, tools, and narratives you create will be used at scale across a partner's global practice.

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: $122,000 USD - $183,000 USD Additional US Location(s) Base Pay Range: $170,600 USD - $256,000 USD

Additional Considerations:

If performed in Colorado, the pay range for this job is $170,600 USD - $256,000 USD based on min and max pay range for that role if performed in CO.

The application deadline for this role is the same as the posting end date stated as below: 09/28/2026

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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