Principal Product Manager, Enterprise Applications

Workday•Pleasanton, CA

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Digital Employee Experience team is part of Business Technology (BT) delivering innovative, engaging digital experiences for our global workforce. We understand the needs and challenges of Workmates and create solutions that improve productivity, engagement, and satisfaction. We partner closely with teams across Sales, Marketing, Customer Service, HR, Employee Communications, and other functions to deliver seamless, integrated experiences that support business operations and help Workmates do their best work. We are a collaborative, dynamic team that values creativity, innovation, customer empathy, and continuous improvement. We are seeking a highly strategic and experienced Principal Product Manager to shape the future of digital work at Workday. In this pivotal role, you will own the vision, strategy, roadmap, and product outcomes for critical enterprise productivity and collaboration capabilities that impact thousands of Workmates globally. You will lead transformative initiatives across a complex internal ecosystem, partnering with business stakeholders, engineering, architecture, security, legal, procurement, vendors, and executive leadership. You will translate employee and business needs into scalable, secure, high-quality product experiences that advance Workday’s strategic goals and operational excellence. This role requires a strong combination of product strategy, enterprise technology expertise, executive influence, customer empathy, data-driven decision-making, and AI fluency. You will identify opportunities to responsibly apply modern AI capabilities to improve workflows, employee experiences, adoption, and business outcomes while balancing usability, security, risk, compliance, and return on investment.

Requirements

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.
AI domain fluency, including a practical understanding of modern AI capabilities, limitations, governance considerations, and responsible enterprise application.
Experience evaluating vendor or SaaS platforms, including AI-enabled products, against business requirements, technical feasibility, security, privacy, compliance, and ROI criteria.
Proven ability to use data, analytics, qualitative feedback, and business context to generate insights, recommend priorities, and drive measurable product improvements.
Strong business-case development and ROI-modeling skills.
Deep understanding of UX principles and the ability to translate employee needs into effective product requirements, workflows, and experiences.
Exceptional executive communication, stakeholder management, and influence skills, with the ability to tailor complex information for technical and nontechnical audiences.
Track record of leading through ambiguity, resolving complex problems, and driving accountability for outcomes.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Business, Information Technology, or a related field

Nice To Haves

Experience delivering employee-facing digital products, such as intranets, mobile applications, collaboration platforms, chatbots, knowledge tools, or other digital workplace capabilities.
Proven expertise deploying or managing large employee communications platforms, collaboration technologies, productivity tools, or equivalent enterprise SaaS capabilities, preferably within technology companies.
Product Management, Scrum, Agile, AI, or related certifications are a plus.
MBA or advanced degree is a plus.

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.
Maintain current knowledge of modern AI capabilities, limitations, and emerging practices, particularly as they relate to enterprise SaaS products, agents, natural-language interfaces, automated insights, recommendations, and AI-driven analytics.
Identify and prioritize practical AI opportunities that create measurable value for Workmates and the business.
Evaluate vendor and SaaS AI capabilities critically, distinguishing deployable, value-creating features from marketing claims and ensuring alignment with business needs, enterprise data, security, privacy, compliance, and architecture requirements.
Build strong, trusted relationships and influence without direct authority to drive clarity, alignment, accountability, and shared outcomes across a broad stakeholder community.
Navigate and contribute to enterprise governance processes, including security reviews, legal and privacy approvals, architecture governance, procurement, vendor management, and budget or spending oversight where applicable.