Workday · 1 day ago
Principal Outbound Workforce Management Product Manager
USA, CA, Pleasanton
Full-time
Hybrid
Lead/Staff
$196K/yr - $294K/yr
12+ years expWorkday is a Fortune 500 company and a leading AI platform for managing people, money, and agents. They are seeking a Principal Outbound Workforce Management Product Manager to interface with customers, analyze competitive intelligence, and define the product vision and strategy for workforce management solutions.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Cloud ComputingEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSoftwareHuman Resources
Responsibilities
Interface with customers, positioning the value of Workforce Management, discussing functional requirements, and collecting feedback to incorporate into product development cycles
Analyze competitive intelligence to help better position Workday in the market, highlighting our differentiators to customers
Participate in customer events, marketing events, and analyst relations engagements
Perform industry analysis to surface roadmap candidates back to the product team
Collaborate with Workday’s business Product Owners, customers, partners, development teams including architecture, consultants, operations, and product teams to understand their desired business outcomes and priorities
Help to define the product vision, strategy and roadmap, including the underlying technical capabilities
Curate customer adoption campaigns to help customers realize the value of their Workforce Management investment
Engage with customer executive leaders in person on the Customer Experience Center on a regular basis
Guide the product teams towards high value OKRs
Support education and adoption of platform features by internal development teams
Coordinate and align solution design across multiple scrum teams operating in a sophisticated distributed software environment
Communicate and evangelize the product area among the Workday community and at Workday events
Qualification
Required
12+ years experience in product management, industry, and / or customer environments envisioning, defining, and delivering impactful SaaS and/or cloud-based enterprise software products at scale
Expert level domain knowledge of the relevant industry and market, with a comprehensive understanding of Retail, Hospitality, Manufacturing, global compliance needs in Workforce Management and industry best practices for Scheduling, Demand Forecasting, and Time Management
Business Influence: Getting buy-in for roadmaps by balancing customer value vs. cost
Cross-Team Leadership: Driving results across Engineering, Marketing, and Sales
Customer Advocacy: Turning deep empathy and pain points into actual product features
Data Mastery: Using tools (Tableau, Snowflake, Sigma) to set strategy and KPIs
Strategic Decision Making: Balancing tech feasibility with long-term business goals
Market Research: Using competitive analysis and user behavior to find new opportunities
Stakeholder Management: Influencing and managing expectations for executive leaders
Visionary Thinking: Identifying disruptive ways to win the market
Education: Degree in Business or CS (Masters is a plus)
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.Bezos Expeditions,Janus Capital Group,Morgan Stanley,T. Rowe PriceNew Enterprise Associates
2025-09-16Post Ipo Equity· $2B
2012-10-12IPO
2011-10-24Series F· $85M
Leadership Team
Carl Eschenbach
Strategic Advisor to the CEO
Peter Bailis
Chief Technology Officer
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