Principal Product Manager, Digital Workplace & AI

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

Job summary

Workday is seeking an experienced Principal Product Manager to shape the future of digital work for thousands of Workmates globally. You will own vision, strategy, roadmap, and outcomes for enterprise productivity and collaboration capabilities, partnering with stakeholders, engineering, security, and legal.

You will translate employee and business needs into scalable, secure product experiences while applying AI thoughtfully to improve workflows and business results, balancing risk, privacy,

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.

Responsibilities

• Establish and own a compelling product vision and strategic roadmap aligned to Workday’s 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.

Skills

Product strategy

Roadmap development

Stakeholder management

Agile / Scrum

AI for enterprise

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Business/IT

MBA or advanced degree (plus)

Job description

Workday is seeking an experienced Principal Product Manager to shape the future of digital work for thousands of Workmates globally. You will own vision, strategy, roadmap, and outcomes for enterprise productivity and collaboration capabilities, partnering with stakeholders, engineering, security, and legal.

You will translate employee and business needs into scalable, secure product experiences while applying AI thoughtfully to improve workflows and business results, balancing risk, privacy,