Sr. Product Manager, Developer Platform Experience

Workday Workday · Enterprise · Pleasanton, CA

Workday is seeking a Senior Product Manager for their Developer Platform Experience team. This role will focus on empowering developers to build, test, and deploy applications more efficiently on the Workday platform, which leverages ML/AI. The Product Manager will partner with customers and internal teams, define roadmaps, and guide product teams to improve developer productivity and satisfaction. The role requires experience with developer tools, SaaS products, and using AI-powered tools to inform product decisions.

What you'd actually do

  1. Partner with Workday customers, partners, and internal development teams — including architecture, consulting, operations, and product — to understand developer requirements and prioritize what will deliver the most value.
  2. Work closely with engineering from design and development through testing, release, and maintenance to ensure high-quality, on-time delivery of platform and tooling enhancements.
  3. Define and maintain a clear product roadmap, determining requirements for each release based on user needs, technical architecture, and business objectives.
  4. Guide product teams toward meaningful objectives and key results that improve developer productivity, satisfaction, and adoption.
  5. Lead education and adoption of developer platform features by internal development teams, ensuring new capabilities are well understood and successfully used.

Skills

Required

  • 6+ years of experience in product management, software engineering, or a closely related role, with ownership of technical products or platforms.
  • 4+ years of experience working cross-functionally with multiple technical and product teams.
  • 4+ years of experience building or using developer tools to solve complex technical challenges and unlock new innovation.
  • Experience using AI-powered tools and platforms to inform product decisions, accelerate workflows, or enhance user experience.
  • Ability to break down complex technical concepts, clearly articulate product requirements, and thoughtfully prioritize enhancement requests in partnership with engineering and business stakeholders.
  • Strong analytical skills, including the ability to explore data, run experiments, and use measurement and monitoring to guide product decisions.
  • Excellent organizational, collaboration, and interpersonal skills; you work effectively with diverse teams and perspectives.
  • High level of initiative, with strong problem-solving and execution skills; you reliably move work from concept to delivery.
  • Experience with embedded PaaS products and tools, microservices, and distributed systems.
  • Comfort operating in a fast-paced environment and adapting as priorities evolve.
  • Demonstrated experience with end-to-end ownership and accountability for growing a product area, from vision through execution and iteration.

Nice to have

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Experience with developer tools and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) products, ideally focused on platform or ecosystem capabilities.
  • Passion for technology and a genuine desire to improve the day-to-day experience of developers and builder communities.
  • Enthusiasm for your craft and a desire to learn and grow alongside other Product Managers, sharing best practices and contributing to a strong product culture.

What the JD emphasized

  • ownership of technical products or platforms
  • building or using developer tools to solve complex technical challenges
  • using AI-powered tools and platforms to inform product decisions, accelerate workflows, or enhance user experience
  • end-to-end ownership and accountability for growing a product area, from vision through execution and iteration

Other signals

  • AI platform for managing people, money, and agents
  • Workday Build developer platform is an embedded platform-as-a-service (PaaS) that leverages the power of ML/AI to empower developers to build and extend enterprise applications, agents and integrations on top of the Workday platform.
  • empowering our developer community to build, test, and deploy applications more efficiently and with greater confidence.
  • Experience using AI-powered tools and platforms to inform product decisions, accelerate workflows, or enhance user experience.