Product Manager - Workday Extend

Huron Consulting Services•Chicago, IL

1d•Remote

About The Position

Huron is a global consultancy that collaborates with clients to drive strategic growth, ignite innovation and navigate constant change. Through a combination of strategy, expertise and creativity, we help clients accelerate operational, digital and cultural transformation, enabling the change they need to own their future. Join our team as the expert you are now and create your future. Huron is a global professional services firm that collaborates with clients to put possible into practice by creating sound strategies, optimizing operations, accelerating digital transformation, and empowering talent to adapt for the future. The Workday Extend team builds custom applications and Marketplace products on Workday's Extend platform for enterprise clients. This Product Manager will own the full product lifecycle for Extend solutions — from discovery and scoping through delivery, iteration, and go-to-market. You will be the connective tissue between our clients, our technical architects, and the Workday partner ecosystem.

Requirements

5+ years of product management experience in enterprise SaaS or consulting
3+ years working within the Workday ecosystem
Workday Pro certification (active) in at least one domain
Deep understanding of the Workday Extend platform (custom business objects, pages, orchestrations)
Experience with Workday integrations (Studio, EIBs, Core Connectors, REST/SOAP APIs)
Cross-module breadth spanning at least two of: HCM, Financials, Payroll, Supply Chain
Strong stakeholder management and client-facing communication skills
Ability to translate technical complexity into clear business outcomes

Nice To Haves

Experience publishing or managing apps on the Workday Marketplace
Familiarity with Workday AI / Illuminate capabilities and agentic workflow design
Exposure to Workday Data Cloud and Prism Analytics
Experience building go-to-market strategies for packaged SaaS products
Workday Pro certification in Extend or Integrations
AI & Emerging Technology Literacy
Expected within the first year in role: Working understanding of Workday's AI agent framework (Developer Agent, Agent-Ready Tools, Agent Actions)
Ability to evaluate where agentic automation fits within Extend solution design
Awareness of Model Context Protocol (MCP) and its role in developer tooling
Familiarity with Workday Data Cloud / LDQ concepts and their impact on product architecture

Responsibilities

Own the end-to-end product lifecycle for Workday Extend applications (vision, roadmap, requirements, delivery, iteration)
Lead Extend workstreams across client engagements — manage scope, timelines, and stakeholder alignment
Drive Marketplace product strategy — identify reusable patterns across client work, package them as productized Bring-on-Workday offerings, and own go-to-market planning
Partner with Extend Architects to translate business requirements into technical solutions on the Extend platform
Own tenant architecture decisions in partnership with technical leads
Manage cross-functional delivery across HCM, Financials, Payroll, and Integration workstreams
Conduct discovery sessions, gather requirements, and define acceptance criteria
Build and maintain product backlogs, prioritize features based on client impact and reuse potential
Support pre-sales efforts — contribute to estimations, proposals, and solution demos
Champion adoption of AI and agentic workflow capabilities within Extend solutions
Evangelize Huron's Extend capabilities internally and with the Workday partner community