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About the Team

Join the AI Agent Engineering team, where we're pioneering HR & Finance AI Agents that deeply integrate within the Workday suite. Be part of an innovative, agile force architecting intelligent agents that will transform our customers' workday.
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 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 an experienced Senior Principal Product Manager to join our Outbound Product team for Illuminate. As we look across AI and agentic development happening all across our Finance and HR ecosystem, our outbound team will interface directly with customers, marketing, sales, CX and more drive awareness of our Illuminate AI efforts, create scalable methods to bring insights back to the product development teams, and craft strategy for the road head. This role will be specifically responsible for supporting our partner strategy for Illuminate as a part of our go to market strategy. The successful candidate will be an expert product manager with experience working directly with partners in the past and with proven skills in product strategy.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage a large partner portfolio to support Workday’s Illuminate goals - building partner relationships, enabling our partner ecosystem, and selecting strategic partners to bolster our new Illuminate Agent System of Record and complement our Workday native Agents.

• Bring our shared story of success alongside our partners to the market

• Spend time with customers validating our solutions, doing discovery work and ensuring we are prioritizing the right customer problems as you foster a strong customer community

• Be the product champion externally, and passionate 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 redefining our customers' workdays.

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

• Influence our go to market approach with evolving market, partner, and customer feedback

• Participate in customer-facing situations and user conferences as a product expert

• Support our partner ecosystem as they go on the AI journey alongside Workday

About You

Basic Qualifications

• 9+ years of product management and/or product marketing experience

• 7+ years of product owner experience or working closely with product managers to translate customer and market needs into product and release support through the entire product life cycle

Other Qualifications

• Experience working directly with partners and managing partnerships

• Ability to operate successfully across multiple functions, influence senior executives and peers alike, and mediate across various partners

• Track record of taking products from inception to delivery

• Able to communicate effectively to different audience levels from individual users and partners to a room of executives.

• Understanding of how products, tools, and frameworks are connected and how best to use them.

• Serve as the gateway/connector to other teams in the company with a high amount of trust.

• Champions innovation - how to do things that will differentiate Workday in the market.

• Has led special projects that span organizations - apps, tools, partners.

• A product person at heart (passion for innovation & AI a bonus)

Posting End Date: 04/21/2025
If hired in Colorado, click here for information about Workday's comprehensive benefits in Colorado: https://workdaybenefits.com/us/welcome-to-workday-benefits/prospective-workmates.
The application deadline for this role is the same as the posting end date stated.

Workday Pay Transparency Statement

The annualized base salary ranges for the primary location and any additional locations are listed below.  Workday pay ranges vary based on work location. As a part of the total compensation package, this role may be eligible for the Workday Bonus Plan or a role-specific commission/bonus, as well as annual refresh stock grants. Recruiters can share more detail during the hiring process. Each candidate’s compensation offer will be based on multiple factors including, but not limited to, geography, experience, skills, job duties, and business need, among other things. For more information regarding Workday’s comprehensive benefits, please click here.

Primary Location: USA.CA.PleasantonPrimary Location Base Pay Range: $227,200 USD - $340,800 USDAdditional US Location(s) Base Pay Range: $191,500 USD - $340,800 USDIf performed in Colorado, the pay range for this job is $201,600 - $302,400 USD based on min and max pay range for that role if performed in CO.

The application deadline for this role is the same as the posting end date stated as below:
 

04/21/2025

Our Approach to Flexible Work
 

With Flex Work, we’re combining the best of both worlds: in-person time and remote. Our approach enables our teams to deepen connections, maintain a strong community, and do their best work. We know that flexibility can take shape in many ways, so rather than a number of required days in-office each week, we simply spend at least half (50%) of our time each quarter in the office or in the field with our customers, prospects, and partners (depending on role). This means you'll have the freedom to create a flexible schedule that caters to your business, team, and personal needs, while being intentional to make the most of time spent together. Those in our remote "home office" roles also have the opportunity to come together in our offices for important moments that matter.

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