Senior Product Manager, Technical

Workday • Pleasanton, CA

5d • $140,600 - $252,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

As a Senior Product Manager in Workday’s HCM and WFM Engineering organization, you will own key parts of the roadmap for the API platform and data standards that power Agent Ready Tools for first-party and third-party agents. The team builds APIs, frameworks, and data standards that enable teams across Workday to access and build on data at scale through Data Cloud, Headless Consumption, and Workday Build.

You will work across engineering, product, and business teams to clarify priorities and turn strategy into action. The role involves tackling ambiguous, high-impact problems and helping set direction for other product managers and engineers. You will use customer feedback and usage data to guide planning, and partner across engineering and go-to-market teams to support delivery and adoption.

The position focuses on API design and standards, developer experience, API lifecycle and versioning, and API governance and monetization. Workday’s flexible-work approach combines in-person and remote work, with at least half of each quarter spent in the office or in the field with customers, prospects, and partners, depending on the role.

Requirements

• At least 7 years of Product Management experience.
• At least 3 years of experience working with API platforms or developer tools.
• Experience translating customer and business needs into product requirements and roadmaps.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or another technical degree.
• Experience building or contributing to strong user experiences at Workday or within enterprise software.
• Working knowledge of RESTful principles, GraphQL, gRPC, and event-driven architectures such as Webhooks and Kafka/PubSub.
• Familiarity with the OpenAPI Specification (Swagger) and API design-first workflows.
• Ability to define developer experience elements such as documentation standards, SDKs, sandboxes, onboarding flows, and self-service key/token provisioning.
• Experience defining API deprecation schedules, backwards compatibility, breaking-change management, and migration paths across versions.
• Familiarity with API gateway capabilities, rate limiting, throttling, role-based access control, quota management, and API consumption-based pricing models.
• Experience shaping decisions and gaining support from technical and business teams on platform priorities and trade-offs.
• Ability to work across multiple stakeholders and drive product success.
• Experience representing customer and developer needs in planning and advocating for solutions that reflect actual product use.
• Experience listening to customers and users and turning their needs into product direction.
• Experience using data and usage patterns to inform decisions and measure results.
• Ability to weigh trade-offs and make timely decisions when priorities conflict.
• Experience gathering and synthesizing information from multiple sources to validate product direction.
• Experience building relationships with stakeholders who affect or are affected by a product’s direction.
• Strategic thinking and ability to connect daily work to longer-term opportunities and the broader direction.
• Systems thinking, including understanding how changes in one part of a technical ecosystem can affect other parts.
• Care deeply about the product and evangelize it across organizations to generate excitement about its potential.

Responsibilities

• Own and deepen the team’s understanding of the API platform’s capabilities, direction, and roadmap.
• Shape the roadmap by identifying and prioritizing important customer and business outcomes.
• Align product managers, engineers, and business partners to clarify requirements and set priorities.
• Build and apply frameworks for assessing the value, urgency, and importance of platform features.
• Own intake from multiple teams, ensuring requests are understood, documented, and evaluated against priorities.
• Translate product direction into clear requirements, user stories, success measures, and delivery plans.
• Partner with engineering to guide iterative delivery, validation, and testing.
• Communicate roadmap updates, insights, and trade-offs to business teams and product leadership.
• Partner with engineering, go-to-market, and other Workday teams to drive successful delivery and adoption.
• Use customer feedback and usage data to inform planning and prioritization.
• Guide go-to-market readiness by clarifying product value, positioning, and customer impact.

Benefits

• May be eligible for the Workday Bonus Plan or a role-specific commission/bonus.
• May be eligible for annual refresh stock grants.
• Workday offers comprehensive benefits; details are available through the company.

What This Job Offers

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