Principal Product Manager , Legal

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

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work arrangements

Job summary

Workday in Pleasanton, CA is seeking a Principal Product Manager for Legal Business to define and drive an AI-first strategy across the legal operations ecosystem. You will shape the product roadmap, orchestrate AI-enabled features, and partner with cross-functional teams to deliver an intelligent, scalable platform for contracts, compliance, and matter management.

You will lead a team of product managers, influence senior leaders, and ensure alignment with enterprise standards while exploring

Qualifications

• 12+ years of product management experience in enterprise SaaS.
• Deep domain expertise in core legal operations processes and AI transformation.

Responsibilities

• Define and manage the Legal Business roadmap with AI-first focus.
• Lead cross-functional teams and mentor product managers to deliver AI-enabled legal solutions.
• Partner with executives and stakeholders to ensure alignment with enterprise standards and budgets.

Skills

Product management

AI strategy

Leadership

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

At Workday, we help the world's largest organizations adapt to what's next by bringing finance, HR, and planning into a single enterprise cloud. We work hard, and we're serious about what we do. But we like to have fun, too. We put people first, celebrate diversity, drive innovation, and do good in the communities where we live and work.

The Legal Business Technology team's mission is to foster business and customer success through Workday and best-in-class legal operations technology. Our objective is to understand the unique needs of our legal and compliance stakeholders and deliver innovative solutions that drive impactful business outcomes. We believe the future of the legal function is intelligent and autonomous. Our core principle is to cultivate empowered, diverse teams with the freedom to experiment, celebrate learning, and drive AI-powered innovation, leading to a brighter Workday for all.

About the Role

The Principal Product Manager, Product Management for Legal Business will be a pivotal leader, defining and driving our AI-first strategy for the legal application ecosystem. This forward-thinking role is instrumental in orchestrating Workday's product suite wherever applicable, custom innovations, and third-party technologies to construct a premier, intelligent legal operations platform. By embedding intelligent automation, predictive analytics, and generative AI into the core of our legal operations, you will unlock unprecedented business value and create truly streamlined experiences for legal, compliance, and contracting teams. The Product Manager will be part of Business Technology under Product & Technology, responsible for defining our product roadmap and designing digital and agentic legal experiences leveraging AI, agentic and core technologies.

What you will do:

• AI-First Product Vision, Strategy and Roadmap: Architect and champion a long-term product roadmap for our Legal Business ecosystem, centered on AI and Machine Learning.
• Intelligent Product Lifecycle Management: Lead the end-to-end product lifecycle for initiatives in legal operations, from ideation and business case development to defining requirements and measuring ROI.
• Team Leadership & AI Culture: Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing team of product managers. Foster an AI-centric approach, encouraging continuous learning, rapid experimentation, and a deep understanding of how to responsibly build and deploy intelligent systems.
• Executive & Customer Partnership: Serve as the lead advisor to legal and business leadership on the art of the possible with AI in the legal function. Bring the executive presence and conviction to constructively challenge, negotiate with, and when necessary push back on senior executives (including General Counsel, CLO, and C-suite stakeholders) when product trade-offs, timelines, or scope are at odds with sound strategy. Translate sophisticated legal and compliance challenges into solvable problems and articulate a clear vision that secures consensus and drives cross-functional alignment.
• Influence & Innovation: Partner closely with Workday's product teams to influence the future legal product roadmap. Proactively lead release cycles to not only adopt new features but to be a leading voice in their creation and application.
• Ecosystem & Vendor Strategy: Evaluate and lead a portfolio of legal technology partners and vendors (e.g., contract lifecycle management, e-discovery, IP management), ensuring our ecosystem is composed of best-in-class solutions that align with our strategic goals.
• BT Ecosystem Partnership: Build strong working relationships across all Business Technology towers to ensure the legal platform strategy is coherent with enterprise-wide technology standards, data models, and roadmaps - proactively surfacing dependencies and shared opportunities rather than operating in a legal silo.

About You

Basic Qualifications:

• 12+ years of experience in product management, with a significant focus on shipping enterprise-level, technology-powered products in a B2B or SaaS environment.
• Deep domain expertise in core legal operations processes (such as contract lifecycle management, matter management, compliance, e-discovery, and intellectual property) with best practices and a vision for how AI can fundamentally transform them.

Other Qualifications:

• Define and manage the legal operations and compliance roadmap through strategic collaboration with business stakeholders and Product & Technology (P&T) teams.
• Mastery in leading cross-team collaboration, effectively working with and influencing P&T, and partnering across all Business Technology towers (e.g., Finance BT, HR BT, Sales/Marketing BT, IT/Infrastructure, Data & Analytics) - not just legal-adjacent teams - to align on shared platform standards, avoid duplicative solutions, and drive complex, cross-functional product strategies and initiatives.
• Demonstrated executive presence and the confidence to respectfully challenge senior executives and legal leadership in high-stakes settings, defending product decisions with data and sound reasoning rather than simply deferring to seniority.
• Consistent record of successfully integrating legal and contract management systems (preferably Workday) with other enterprise applications and data platforms.
• Familiarity with AI technology stack along with other technology market players supporting legal business, CLM or Legal-related certification(s) are a plus.

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.

Primary Location: USA.CA.Pleasanton

Primary Location Base Pay Range: $196,000 USD - $294,000 USD

Additional US Location(s) Base Pay Range: $167,200 USD - $294,000 USD

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 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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