Senior/Principal Product Manager – AI Agent Products

Job Description

Sr / Principal Product Manager – AI Agent Products | Workday

The Tone:
This is a full-time role at Workday, located in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Workday builds a leading AI platform for managing people, money, and agents, shaping the future of work for teams to reach their potential. This role is critical for creating autonomous AI agents that move beyond demos into business-critical work, operating like a 0-to-1 product team to validate and scale new enterprise AI products. Success in this position involves building smarter solutions that directly impact how organizations operate.

The TL;DR
• Role: Full Time
• Type: Full-time
• Location: Hybrid – Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
• Pay: $162800–$244200 CAD yearly
• Team: Workday Agent Factory builds autonomous AI agents on Workday’s trusted systems of record.
• Mission: Own AI agent products end-to-end, shaping Workday’s data and domain knowledge into new categories of enterprise AI products.
• Tech Stack: Modern AI tools (e.g., Claude, Cursor, Codex)

What You’ll Actually Do
• Ownership: Own an AI agent product end-to-end, from opportunity discovery and product thesis through GA launch, adoption, and iteration.
• Validation: Identify and validate high-ROI opportunities in finance and HCM by working backward from real customer pain, business value, data availability, and failure tolerance.
• Collaboration: Partner deeply with engineering to shape reliable agent architectures, evaluation harnesses, observability, and production readiness.
• Evaluation: Define product-quality evaluations that measure whether an agent is useful, trustworthy, and ready for customer use.
• Conviction: Build conviction through working demos, measurable results, customer discovery, design partner programs, and clear decision memos.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Senior or Principal-level product management, founder, product lead, or equivalent product-building experience.
• Experience: 8+ years (Senior) or 11+ years (Principal) building B2B or enterprise software where AI/ML, data, analytics, or decision-support products are central to customer value; track record of 0-to-1 product development.
• Skills: Demonstrated technical fluency with AI/ML systems, data or analytics products, enterprise platforms, or workflow automation; experience using customer evidence, product metrics, and structured judgment to make high-stakes product decisions; high agency with modern AI tools.
• Bonus: Hands-on experience building, prototyping, or shipping AI agents, AI-native products, LLM features, or workflow automation; strong intuition for agent evaluation, reliability, hallucination risk, human-in-the-loop design, and production failure modes; experience in regulated or complex domains such as finance or HCM; experience managing design partner, beta, or lighthouse customer programs; strong product taste.