Principal Product Manager

Workday Workday · Enterprise · Dublin, Ireland

Workday is seeking a Principal Product Manager to join their Business Technology Go-To-Market (GTM) Digital Customer Experience (DCX) team. This role will define the technical product roadmap, design digital customer experiences, and develop customer-facing properties. The Product Manager will collaborate with business stakeholders and development teams to drive customer journey and digital engagement projects, ensuring cohesive and personalized experiences across Workday properties. The role requires extensive experience in product management for SaaS/cloud-based enterprise software and strong skills in influencing, collaboration, customer advocacy, data analysis, decision-making, domain knowledge, research strategy, stakeholder management, and strategic thinking.

What you'd actually do

  1. 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.
  2. Work closely with product development teams through design, development, testing, release, and maintenance of the product to ensure its quality and successful delivery on-time.
  3. Define the product vision, strategy and roadmap, including the underlying technical capabilities.
  4. Drive solution design for each release based on user requirements, technical architecture, and business outcomes.
  5. Guide the product teams towards high value OKRs.

Skills

Required

  • 12+ years experience in product management, envisioning, defining, and delivering impactful SaaS and/or cloud-based enterprise software products at scale.
  • Bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline such as Business, Computer Science, or a related discipline; a Master's degree preferred or equivalent practical experience.
  • Exceptional ability to exert significant Business Influence across the organization and with external partners, driving strategic alignment and securing buy-in for major product initiatives.
  • Mastery in leading Cross-Team Collaboration, effectively working with and influencing Engineering, Design, and Marketing leadership, as well as executive stakeholders to define and deliver complex, cross-functional product strategies and initiatives.
  • Proven ability to be a visionary Customer Advocate, deeply understanding and anticipating customer needs in product strategy and decisions, and driving a customer-obsessed culture throughout the organization.
  • Deep mastery of Customer Empathy, proactively identifying fundamental customer pain points and translating them into transformative product strategies and innovative user experiences.
  • Exceptional skills in Data Analysis, using advanced and strategic tools and techniques to derive critical insights for shaping product strategy, driving prioritization at an organizational level, and establishing key performance indicators for long-term success.
  • Mastery in Decision Making in complex and strategic product-related matters, balancing user needs, business goals, and technical feasibility with a long-term, holistic perspective, and effectively communicating those decisions with clear strategic rationale and considering broad organizational impact.
  • Deep and strategic Domain Knowledge of the relevant industry and market, with a comprehensive understanding of trends, competitive landscape, user behavior, emerging technologies, and regulatory landscape.
  • Proven ability to lead and define Research strategies to inform product vision, identify disruptive opportunities, and gain deep understanding of user behavior at a fundamental level, utilizing advanced and innovative research methodologies and tools.
  • Mastery in Stakeholder Management, effectively communicating with, influencing, and managing expectations of stakeholder groups, including executive leadership and external strategic partners.
  • Exceptional Strategic Thinking skills, shaping the long-term vision and direction of a product portfolio or business unit and identifying disruptive opportunities.

Nice to have

  • Master's degree preferred or equivalent practical experience.

What the JD emphasized

  • defining our technical product roadmap
  • developing customer-facing properties
  • drive customer journey and digital engagement projects
  • defining the product vision, strategy and roadmap
  • Drive solution design for each release
  • Guide the product teams towards high value OKRs