Principal Product Manager – Digital Employee Experience AI

Job Description

Principal Product Manager, Enterprise Applications | Workday

The Tone:
This is a full-time role at Workday, located in Pleasanton, California, with a hybrid work approach. Workday is a leading AI platform for managing people, money, and agents, shaping the future of work. This role is crucial for delivering innovative, engaging digital experiences for Workday’s global workforce, improving productivity and satisfaction. The work focuses on creating seamless, integrated solutions that support business operations and help employees perform their best work.

The TL;DR
• Role: Full Time
• Type: Full-time
• Location: Hybrid – Pleasanton, California, USA
• Pay: $167200–$294000 yearly
• Team: The Digital Employee Experience team, part of Business Technology (BT)
• Mission: Shape the future of digital work at Workday by owning the vision, strategy, roadmap, and product outcomes for critical enterprise productivity and collaboration capabilities.
• Tech Stack: enterprise SaaS products, agents, natural-language interfaces, automated insights, recommendations, AI-driven analytics, employee communications platforms, collaboration technologies, productivity tools, chatbots, knowledge tools

What You’ll Actually Do
• Establish and own a compelling product vision and strategic roadmap aligned to Workday’s corporate vision, business-unit priorities, 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 key performance indicators.
• Translate strategic initiatives into clear product requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, release plans, and measurable outcomes for globally distributed engineering teams.
• Identify and prioritize practical AI opportunities that create measurable value for Workmates and the business, while balancing usability, security, risk, and compliance.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Business, Information Technology, or a related field; senior-level product management focused on enterprise applications or digital products.
• Experience: 12+ years of product management or related experience delivering enterprise applications; 5+ years owning product vision and strategy in a complex enterprise environment; 5+ years leading large, cross-functional initiatives; 5+ years working in Agile or Scrum methodologies.
• Skills: Product strategy and roadmap ownership, data-driven decision-making and ROI modeling, executive communication and stakeholder management, practical AI application and evaluation, UX principles.
• Bonus: MBA or advanced degree; Product Management, Scrum, Agile, or AI certifications; experience delivering employee-facing digital products or managing large enterprise SaaS capabilities.