Principal Product Manager - Workday AI

Your work days are brighter here.

At Workday, it all began with a conversation over breakfast. When our founders met at a sunny California diner, they came up with an idea to revolutionize the enterprise software market. And when we began to rise, one thing that really set us apart was our culture. A culture which was driven by our value of putting our people first. And ever since, the happiness, development, and contribution of every Workmate is central to who we are. Our Workmates believe a healthy employee-centric, collaborative culture is the essential mix of ingredients for success in business. That’s why we look after our people, communities and the planet while still being profitable. Feel encouraged to shine, however that manifests: you don’t need to hide who you are. You can feel the energy and the passion, it's what makes us unique. Inspired to make a brighter work day for all and transform with us to the next stage of our growth journey? Bring your brightest version of you and have a brighter work day here.

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About the Team

Join the Workday AI organization, where you’ll be building and supporting state-of-the-art AI capabilities that power Workday’s product suite. You’ll be working with a cross-functional team that ships frequently, iterates rapidly, and is supporting millions of users of Workday’s products.



Built for speed, Illuminate is a product org laser-focused on driving Workday's top AI priorities while reducing barriers to delivery.

Priorities for the Illuminate Team:
Drive adoption and scale of Accelerate & Assist features across the WD product suite; Rapidly build and deploy our first AI agents, using our unified platform;
Deliver our an Agent System of Record.

To drive velocity and efficiency, Illuminate provides single-threaded ownership of AI product strategy and technical direction, while actively partnering with key P&T and GTM teams for alignment and execution at scale.

About the Role

We are looking for a dynamic Principal Product Manager to own the delivery of AI-powered agents within Workday. You will either be building customer-facing agents or building infrastructure and frameworks that Workday’s application team can use to deploy to customers.. You will be responsible for working at high velocity to experiment, innovate, develop, iterate and scale AI agents, collaborating closely with domain-specific Product Managers to maximize the impact of our technology.  This role requires a unique combination of execution speed, inspiration and a deep curiosity about emerging AI techniques. You will play a key role in shaping our approach to AI agents, ensuring we deliver cutting-edge solutions that drive real business value.

General Responsibilities:

• Build and ship state of the art AI capabilities or infrastructure 

• Identify highest impact, highest ROI opportunities for AI at Workday, advocate for them within the org, and build or enable other teams to build these capabilities. 

• Interface with customers to validate our solutions, execute discovery work and ensure we are prioritizing the right customer problems 

• Be the product champion externally, and voice of the customer internally

• Lead through influence and apply strategic understanding of the company's big picture, articulating a compelling vision for AI agents and their role in evolving our customers' workdays.

• Manage Early Adopter programs across multiple AI initiatives to ensure customer value, referenceability, critical lessons, and risk mitigation

• Collaborate with development teams in flight to validate value for customers, drive adoption, and enable the field, CX, implementers on our AI work

• Communicate new capabilities to various audiences clearly and in an understandable way for them

• Work with the product teams to identify value outcomes and measurable metrics to quantify the value of our AI investments

About You

Basic Qualifications

• 7+ years of product management e