Workday · 1 day ago
Principal Product Advisor, ME Engagement Management
Chicago, IL
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$155K/yr - $233K/yr
5+ years expWorkday is a Fortune 500 company and a leading AI platform for managing people, money, and agents. The Principal Product Advisor will drive engagement, project management, testing, and training approaches within GO deployments, ensuring project governance and execution while collaborating with senior stakeholders.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Cloud ComputingEnterprise SoftwareHuman ResourcesSaaSSoftware
Responsibilities
Define how Workday projects should be governed and executed from an engagement perspective, shaping the methods, tooling, and content that delivery teams and partners use to manage scope, schedule, risk, testing cycles, and end‑user readiness
Continuously improve project governance frameworks, testing strategies, and training approaches, leveraging deployment tools and automation to make these practices consistent, scalable, and insight‑driven
Translate delivery learnings, escalations, and engagement health metrics into concrete improvements to our deployment playbooks, templates, and workflows, ensuring teams have clear guidance to run successful projects
Lead complex, cross-functional initiatives with a high degree of autonomy, partner closely with senior stakeholders across Product, Services, and Sales, and act as a key subject matter expert for engagement management, project execution, testing quality, and training effectiveness across GO deployments
Qualification
Required
Demonstrable expertise in enterprise SaaS project and engagement management, with a focus on delivery governance, risk management, and customer success for cloud implementations
5+ years leading or advising on enterprise software deployments (preferably Workday or similar SaaS), with accountability for project plans, stakeholder alignment, timelines, and outcomes
Significant experience designing and executing structured testing cycles (e.g., SIT, UAT, regression, cutover validation) and defining testing tools, processes, and acceptance criteria
Strong hands-on experience with project and portfolio management tools, testing or QA tooling, and enablement/training platforms (e.g., work management tools, test management tools, learning or adoption platforms)
Preferred
Highly adaptable; comfortable navigating evolving product and deployment strategies
Communicates and collaborates effectively with cross-functional partners (Product, Services, Engineering, Partners, and Customer teams)
Learns new technologies and related product areas quickly, including AI/ML-driven tools and emerging deployment automation capabilities
Can handle multiple competing priorities and drive progress across parallel initiatives in a structured way
Has strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, with a track record of breaking down ambiguous implementation challenges into scalable, tool- and workflow-based solutions
Explains complex and technical concepts in simple, accessible terms to audiences with varying levels of technical knowledge
Mentors consultants and delivery teams, provides guidance on deployment best practices, and can lead virtual teams or workstreams to deliver cross-organizational outcomes
Comfortable using AI tools (such as generative AI assistants) to design or enhance implementation workflows, documentation, and training content
Previous consulting experience, either as an internal consultant or with a consulting/software company, is a plus
Willing to travel up to 25% of the time, as required by business needs
Benefits
Workday Bonus Plan
Annual refresh stock grants
Company
Workday
Workday provides SaaS-based enterprise solutions for a company's human resources and financial management activities.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$2.23BKey Investors
Elliott Management Corp.New Enterprise AssociatesGreylock
2025-09-16Post Ipo Equity· $2B
2012-10-12IPO
2011-10-24Series F· $85M
Leadership Team
Aneel Bhusri
CEO and Co-Founder
Peter Bailis
Chief Technology Officer
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