Payroll Product Manager - Payroll Core

Workday • Pleasanton, CA

4d • $117,800 - $210,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

As a Product Manager on Workday’s Payroll Core team, you will shape the design of Workday Payroll and own the product vision and roadmap for payroll frameworks, calculation engines, and AI-powered agent experiences. The role focuses on ensuring that product features deliver meaningful value to customers worldwide. The Payroll Core team builds foundational frameworks and calculation engines, country payroll localization infrastructure, and APIs and tools that support Workday’s AI agents. Its upcoming priorities include developing agentic skills for payroll and self-service agents and using AI tools, including Cursor and large language models, to accelerate payroll development for new countries.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of experience in product management, defining and delivering SaaS and/or cloud-based enterprise software products or features.
• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline such as Business, Computer Science, or a related discipline.
• Ability to shape decisions and drive alignment within a large organization through persuasive communication and relationship-building.
• Experience collaborating across teams and departments, such as Engineering, UX, QA, and Content, to deliver shared goals.
• Ability to understand and address customer needs, represent customer interests, and use feedback to influence product development.
• Skill in evaluating alternatives, assessing risks, solving problems, and balancing data with judgment to drive product outcomes.
• Experience collecting, analyzing, and interpreting information about payroll markets, customer needs, and competitive dynamics.
• Experience using AI tools to develop or implement software solutions.

Responsibilities

• Learn Workday Payroll in depth and identify product feature and process improvement opportunities by analyzing customer requirements, market trends, and competitive gaps.
• Learn and apply AI tools, including large language models and AI-assisted development environments, to accelerate product development, improve workflows, and bring solutions to market faster.
• Collaborate with business partners, including executives and other product teams, to incorporate requirements into the product roadmap and provide accurate timelines and project updates.
• Partner with Software Engineering, UX, Quality Assurance, and Content teams to coordinate development and rollout of new customer experiences.
• Build performance indicators and processes to measure the efficiency of delivered experiences and identify opportunities for further optimization.
• Conduct meetings and design sessions with external customers and translate insights into product requirements and product vision.

Benefits

• The role may be eligible for the Workday Bonus Plan or a role-specific commission/bonus.
• Annual refresh stock grants may be part of the total compensation package.
• Flexible work schedule, with at least 50% of time each quarter spent in the office or in the field with customers, prospects, and partners, depending on the role.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level