Product Manager – Payroll Core AI

Job Description

Payroll Product Manager – Payroll Core | Workday

The Tone:
This is a full-time hybrid role at Workday, located in Pleasanton, CA. Workday builds a leading AI platform for managing people, money, and agents, shaping the future of work for teams globally. This role is central to the Payroll Core team, deeply influencing the design of Workday Payroll by owning the product vision and roadmap for foundational frameworks, calculation engines, and AI-powered agent experiences. The position ensures every feature delivers meaningful value and enables Workday to expand payroll into more countries, allowing customers worldwide to manage payroll with confidence.

The TL;DR
• Role: Full Time
• Location: Hybrid Pleasanton
• Pay: $140000–$210000 USD yearly
• Team: Payroll Core team builds the foundational frameworks and calculation engines that power Workday Payroll globally.
• Mission: Owns the product vision and roadmap for payroll frameworks, calculation engines, and AI-powered agent experiences, ensuring global customer value.
• Tech Stack: AI tools, Cursor, large language models

What You’ll Actually Do
• Learning: Learn Workday Payroll in depth and identify new opportunities for product feature development and process improvement by analyzing customer requirements, market trends, and competitive gaps.
• Application: Learn and apply the latest AI tools to accelerate product development, improve workflows, and bring solutions to market faster.
• Collaboration: Collaborate with partners across the business, including executives and other product teams, to integrate requirements into the product roadmap and provide accurate timelines and project updates.
• Partnership: Partner with Software Engineering, UX, Quality Assurance, and Content teams to coordinate development and rollout of new customer experiences.
• Customer Insight: Conduct meetings and design sessions with external customers, translating insights into product requirements and product vision.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline such as Business, Computer Science, or a related discipline.
• Experience: 5+ years experience in product management, defining and delivering SaaS and/or cloud-based enterprise software products or features.
• Skills: Ability to shape decisions and drive alignment within a large organization; experienced in working effectively with cross-functional teams; skilled in understanding and addressing customer needs; skilled at evaluating multiple alternatives and selecting the best course of action; experienced in systematically collecting, analyzing, and interpreting information to deepen understanding of payroll markets and customer needs.
• Bonus: Using AI tools to develop or implement software solutions.