Senior Principal Product Manager for the Intelligent Experience Platform (IXP) – Intelligent Experience Platform

Job Description

Sr Principal, Product Manager | Workday

The Tone:
This is a full-time role at Workday, located in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, with a hybrid work model. Workday builds a leading AI platform for managing people, money, and agents, shaping the future of work so teams can reach their potential. This role is crucial for defining and leading the strategic vision for the Intelligent Experience Platform, which powers Workday’s next generation of user and agentic experiences.

The TL;DR
• Role: Full Time
• Location: Hybrid – Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
• Pay: $195,400–$293,000 CAD yearly
• Team: Intelligent Experience Platform (IXP) team, part of Core Services within Workday’s Platform organization.
• Mission: Owns the strategic vision and product authority for the platform powering Workday’s next generation user and agentic experiences.
• Tech Stack: UI/UX platform technologies, AI agents, AI/ML agentic frameworks.

What You’ll Actually Do
• Strategy Execution: Build and execute product strategy for a mission-critical platform, ensuring a highly-governed, scalable, and user-centric environment for AI agents and multiple surfaces.
• Roadmap Definition: Define long-term product roadmaps and product success metrics that capture the needs of various stakeholders, aligning IXP OKRs to company-wide OKRs.
• Vision Alignment: Align the IXP strategic vision to the Platform, Product & Technology, and Workday-wide strategic visions, creating a compelling narrative for the platform.
• Cross-Functional Leadership: Drive strategic alignment across high-stakes business domains and lead cross-functional efforts within IXP and with Platform partners to deliver transformative user-interface interactions.
• Product Authority: Manage and orchestrate required workstreams to achieve product milestones and customer needs, resolving ambiguity on product direction and serving as the ultimate product authority.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Bachelor’s degree in Business, Computer Science, or a related discipline, with product management leadership experience in conceiving, defining, and delivering transformative SaaS and/or cloud-based enterprise software.
• Experience: 10+ years as a product management leader, delivering products with market impact, and deep expertise in core UI/UX platform technologies for modern scalable experiences.
• Skills: Strategic Thinking, Data Analysis, Decision Making in complex strategic matters, and deep Domain Knowledge of enterprise SaaS trends, UI/UX Platforms, AI/ML agentic frameworks, and generative AI.
• Bonus: Master’s degree preferred or equivalent practical experience.