Principal Product Manager: AI‑Driven Digital Workplace

Workday; Pleasanton (CA); Hybrid; USD 196,000 - 294,000; Full time

Job summary

Workday is seeking a highly strategic Principal Product Manager to shape the future of digital work. You will own the vision, strategy, roadmap, and outcomes for enterprise productivity and collaboration capabilities impacting thousands of Workmates globally.

You will lead initiatives with stakeholders across engineering, security, legal, procurement, and executives to translate needs into scalable, secure product experiences. Strong AI fluency and data-driven decision-making are essential.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of product management, program management, or related experience delivering enterprise applications or digital products.
• 5+ years owning product vision, strategy, roadmaps, backlog prioritization, and end-to-end product delivery in a complex enterprise environment.
• 5+ years leading large, high-impact cross-functional initiatives.
• 5+ years working in Agile, Scrum, or similar methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Establish and own a compelling product vision and strategic roadmap aligned with corporate priorities and product maturity.
• Lead strategic engagements with stakeholders to define problems, build alignment and ROI models for roadmap investments.
• Define and measure product success through adoption, employee experience, operational efficiency, reliability, cost, risk, and other KPIs.
• Speak for the customer and translate needs into scalable product requirements for globally distributed teams.
• Leverage AI capabilities and analytics to synthesize insights and opportunities into value hypotheses.
• Prioritize features, technical debt reduction, and vendor capabilities based on value, risk, and feasibility.
• Translate strategic initiatives into clear requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and release plans.
• Collaborate with Delivery Managers and engineers to drive discovery and solution design for execution.

Skills

Product management

Strategy

Stakeholder management

Agile/Scrum

AI fluency

Executive communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree

MBA or advanced degree (plus)

Tools

Agile tools

Job description

Workday is seeking a highly strategic Principal Product Manager to shape the future of digital work. You will own the vision, strategy, roadmap, and outcomes for enterprise productivity and collaboration capabilities impacting thousands of Workmates globally.

You will lead initiatives with stakeholders across engineering, security, legal, procurement, and executives to translate needs into scalable, secure product experiences. Strong AI fluency and data-driven decision-making are essential.