Workday is building AI agent products on top of trusted enterprise systems, with a team focused on moving from prototypes to business-critical capabilities. In this role, you will own an AI agent product end-to-end, shaping product decisions from early opportunity discovery through GA launch, adoption, and ongoing iteration.
This is a hands-on product-building position where you will turn ambiguous customer problems into prototypes, evaluation plans, launch scopes, and shipped outcomes. You will work closely with engineering, data science, design, field, and domain teams to ensure reliability, usefulness, and production readiness for enterprise customers.
What you’ll do
- Own an AI agent product end-to-end, spanning opportunity discovery and product thesis through GA launch, adoption, and iteration.
- Identify and validate high-ROI opportunities in finance and HCM by working backward from real customer pain, business value, data availability, knowledge quality, and failure tolerance.
- Partner deeply with engineering to shape reliable agent architectures, evaluation harnesses, observability, human-in-the-loop controls, and production readiness.
- Define product-quality evals that determine whether an agent is useful, trustworthy, and ready for customer use, beyond demo appeal.
- Build conviction through working demos, measurable results, customer discovery, design partner programs, and clear decision memos.
- Align stakeholders across domain PMs, design, engineering, field, legal, security, and executives to move needed decisions toward shipment.
What you’ll bring
- Experience level for Senior vs. Principal: 8+ years of product management, founder, product lead, or equivalent product-building experience for Senior Product Manager; 11+ years for Principal Product Manager.
- Enterprise product depth: 5+ years building B2B or enterprise software where AI/ML, data, analytics, or decision-support are central to customer value.
- 0-to-1 ownership: a record of taking an idea from concept to first customers, revenue, or measurable business impact.
- Technical fluency: demonstrated ability to engage with AI/ML systems, data or analytics products, enterprise platforms, or workflow automation.
- Decision-making with incomplete information: experience using customer evidence, product metrics, and structured judgment for high-stakes product choices.
- High agency with modern AI tools: experience using tools such as Claude, Cursor, Codex, or equivalents to prototype, analyze, write, test, research, or automate parts of your workflow.
About the team and role scope
Workday Agent Factory builds on Workday’s trusted systems of record, deep finance and HCM workflow context, and enterprise distribution to create autonomous AI agents that go beyond demos into business-critical work. The team operates like a 0-to-1 product organization inside Workday, focusing on high-conviction bets validated with real customers and scaled into production-grade enterprise products.
In this position, you will own a product line, not a feature backlog. You will have direct customer access and autonomy to shape product decisions, turning Workday’s data and domain knowledge into new categories of enterprise AI products.
Technologies
- AI/ML
- Claude
- Cursor
- Codex
Role location and work approach
- Location: Pleasanton, CA (hybrid)
- Flexible work approach: spend at least half (50%) of your time each quarter in the office or in the field with customers, prospects, and partners (depending on role). Remote “home office” roles have the opportunity to come together in Workday offices for important moments.
Compensation
- Salary range (USD): $167,200 - $294,000 per year
- Primary location base pay range (USD): $196,000 - $294,000 per year
- Colorado pay range (if applicable): $176,000 - $264,000 per year
Additional policy statements
- Pursuant to applicable Fair Chance law, Workday will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
- Workday is an Equal Opportunity Employer including individuals with disabilities and protected veterans.
- Workday is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals during the application process.
- Workday prohibits adverse action against candidates or employees for reporting possible policy violations, requesting work accommodations, exercising privacy rights, or cooperating in an investigation in accordance with applicable law.
- If you require a reasonable accommodation, you may email accommodations@workday.com, as far in advance as possible.
