Principal Product Manager, Enterprise Applications

Your work days are brighter here. We’re obsessed with making hard work pay off, for our people, our customers, and the world around us. As a Fortune 500 company and a leading AI platform for managing people, money, and agents, we’re shaping the future of work so teams can reach their potential and focus on what matters most. The minute you join, you’ll feel it. Not just in the products we build, but in how we show up for each other. Our culture is rooted in integrity, empathy, and shared enthusiasm. We’re in this together, tackling big challenges with bold ideas and genuine care. We look for curious minds and courageous collaborators who bring sun-drenched optimism and drive. Whether you're building smarter solutions, supporting customers, or creating a space where everyone belongs, you’ll do meaningful work with Workmates who’ve got your back. In return, we’ll give you the trust to take risks, the tools to grow, the skills to develop and the support of a company invested in you for the long haul. So, if you want to inspire a brighter work day for everyone, including yourself, you’ve found a match in Workday, and we hope to be a match for you too.

The Digital Employee Experience team is part of Business Technology (BT) delivering innovative, engaging digital experiences for our global workforce. We understand the needs and challenges of Workmates and create solutions that improve productivity, engagement, and satisfaction. We partner closely with teams across Sales, Marketing, Customer Service, HR, Employee Communications, and other functions to deliver seamless, integrated experiences that support business operations and help Workmates do their best work. We are a collaborative, dynamic team that values creativity, innovation, customer empathy, and continuous improvement.

We are seeking a highly strategic and experienced Principal Product Manager to shape the future of digital work at Workday. In this pivotal role, you will own the vision, strategy, roadmap, and product outcomes for critical enterprise productivity and collaboration capabilities that impact thousands of Workmates globally. You will lead transformative initiatives across a complex internal ecosystem, partnering with business stakeholders, engineering, architecture, security, legal, procurement, vendors, and executive leadership. You will translate employee and business needs into scalable, secure, high-quality product experiences that advance Workday’s strategic goals and operational excellence. This role requires a strong combination of product strategy, enterprise technology expertise, executive influence, customer empathy, data-driven decision-making, and AI fluency. You will identify opportunities to responsibly apply modern AI capabilities to improve workflows, employee experiences, adoption, and business outcomes while balancing usability, security, risk, compliance, and return on investment. Job Duties: Establish and own a compelling product vision and strategic roadmap aligned to Workday’s corporate vision, business-unit priorities, cross-company initiatives 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 KPIs. Serve as the voice of the customer for employees and business stakeholders, conducting regular strategic engagements to understand user priorities, pain points, and improvement opportunities. Leverage AI-powered tools and product analytics to synthesize employee feedback, usage data, market trends into clear problem definitions, product opportunities, and value hypotheses. Prioritize product features, technical issue resolution, technical debt reduction, and vendor capabilities based on business