Principal Product Manager, Developer Platform Experience

Workday•Pleasanton, CA

1d•$167,200 - $294,000•Hybrid

About The Position

The Developer Platform Product Management team at Workday drives the product vision and strategy for one of our greatest differentiators: the technology platform that was purpose-built for the cloud. Product managers here are involved in every aspect of the product lifecycle — from crafting features that delight customers, to evangelizing improvements across internal and external audiences, to obsessing over the details that make an outstanding end product. We are growing fast, and we are looking for people who combine strategic vision with a record of getting high-demand products to market. As Principal Product Manager for the Workday Build developer platform, you will own one of Workday's most exciting challenges: transforming our invite-only developer platform into an open frictionless launchpad for anyone to build enterprise AIs. You are the visionary architect who will unleash the power of our developer ecosystem. You will craft world-class developer experience where every detail matters, and the goal is a frictionless developer journey to build ambitious applications and autonomous AI agents. Your work will directly accelerate platform adoption and growth, unlock revenue opportunities, and shape the global enterprise software ecosystem.

Requirements

10+ years of experience in software product management
Demonstrated success building, scaling, and driving adoption for technical tools whose primary users are external engineers, developers, or system integrators.
Strong analytical capability with data systems, performance dashboards, and product analytics software.
Experience using AI-powered tools and platforms to inform product decisions, accelerate workflows, or enhance user experience.
Cross-functional collaboration: You naturally navigate complex, multi-layered internal stakeholder maps and influence technical roadmaps across Product and Engineering without needing direct authority. You build influential relationships and drive alignment for critical cross-functional initiatives.
Developer empathy: You possess a deep, genuine passion for understanding the daily workflows and challenges of external developers, turning their qualitative feedback into actionable product strategies that improve the end-to-end experience.
Data storytelling: You translate complex product usage data, funnel behaviors, and ecosystem trends into clear, strategic narratives that align teams and inspire action.
Platform engineering literacy: Deep, hands-on familiarity with APIs, web services, authentication protocols, integration patterns, and enterprise SaaS platform governance models.
Human-AI collaborative workflows: Experience designing software frameworks or builder tools that use Large Language Models, prompt engineering, or agentic automation patterns.
Product lifecycle stewardship: A record of managing a platform product from initial discovery and technical scoping through launch, user acquisition, and continuous data-driven optimization.
Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, with the ability to adapt your style to different audiences and collaborate effectively across teams.

Nice To Haves

Prior experience growing B2B SaaS partner ecosystems or developer advocacy networks is a plus.
Familiarity with modern developer experience tools, API gateways, and observability instrumentation is a plus.

Responsibilities

Audit and transform the end-to-end developer journey, mapping friction points to reduce the time it takes for a developer to make their first successful API and tool call.
Own the developer content pipeline end-to-end, working across product, engineering, and developer relations to ensure all new public API and feature documentation, and user journey is fully tuned and optimized for developer consumption.
Restructure technical content and information architecture, deploying automated, intuitive documentation funnels that increase guide engagement and onboarding completion rates.
Roll out advanced, privacy-compliant tracking mechanisms to analyze behavioral intent signals across the developer portal, enabling go-to-market teams to proactively identify high-intent activation opportunities.