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Senior Product Manager, Technical at Workday in USA, CA, Pleasanton
Job Description
Senior Product Manager, Technical
Location: USA, CA, Pleasanton · Flex
Your work days are brighter here.
We’re obsessed with making hard work pay off, for our people, our customers, and the world around us. As a Fortune 500 company and a leading AI platform for managing people, money, and agents, we’re shaping the future of work so teams can reach their potential and focus on what matters most. The minute you join, you’ll feel it. Not just in the products we build, but in how we show up for each other. Our culture is rooted in integrity, empathy, and shared enthusiasm. We’re in this together, tackling big challenges with bold ideas and genuine care. We look for curious minds and courageous collaborators who bring sun-drenched optimism and drive. Whether you're building smarter solutions, supporting customers, or creating a space where everyone belongs, you’ll do meaningful work with Workmates who’ve got your back. In return, we’ll give you the trust to take risks, the tools to grow, the skills to develop and the support of a company invested in you for the long haul. So, if you want to inspire a brighter work day for everyone, including yourself, you’ve found a match in Workday, and we hope to be a match for you too.
About the Team
As part of Workday's HCM and WFM Engineering organization, this team builds the APIs, frameworks, and data standards that power Agent Ready Tools for first-party and third-party agents. We make it possible for teams across the company to access and build on our data at scale through Data Cloud, Headless Consumption, and Workday Build. If you care about data access, developer experience, and building tools other teams rely on every day, you'll feel right at home here.About the Role
As a Senior Product Manager on this team, you will own key parts of the roadmap for our API platform and data standards, working across engineering, product, and business teams to drive clarity on priorities and turn strategy into action. You'll take on more ambiguous, higher-impact problems and help set the direction other product managers and engineers build toward.
Responsibilities:
- Own and deepen the team's understanding of the API platform's capabilities, direction, and roadmap.
- Shape the roadmap by identifying and prioritizing the customer and business outcomes that matter most.
- Lead alignment with product managers, engineers, and business partners to clarify requirements and set priorities.
- Build and apply frameworks that assess the value, urgency, and importance of platform features.
- Own intake from multiple teams, making sure requests are understood, documented, and evaluated against priorities.
- Translate product direction into clear requirements, user stories, success measures, and delivery plans.
- Partner with engineering to guide iterative delivery, validation, and testing.
- Communicate roadmap updates, insights, and trade-offs to teams across the business and to product leadership.
- Partner across engineering, go-to-market, and other Workday teams to drive successful delivery and adoption.
- Use customer feedback and usage data to shape planning and prioritization.
- Guide go-to-market readiness by clarifying product value, positioning, and customer impact.
API & Developer Experience (DX)
- API Design & Standards: Working knowledge of RESTful principles, GraphQL, gRPC, and event-driven architectures (e.g., Webhooks, Kafka/PubSub). Familiarity with the OpenAPI Specification (Swagger) and API design-first workflows.
- Developer Experience (DX): Ability to treat internal and external engineers as end customers—defining documentation standards, SDKs, sandboxes, onboarding flows, and self-service key/token provisioning.
- Lifecycle & Versioning Strategy: Experience defining deprecation schedules, backwards compatibility, breaking-change management, and migration paths across API versions.
- API Governance & Monetization: Familiarity with API gateway capabilities (Kong, Apigee, AWS API Gateway), rate limiting, throttling, role-based access control (RBAC), quota management, and API consumption-based pricing models.
About You
Basic Qualifications
- Minimum of 7 years of Product Management experience.
- Minimum of 3 years of experience working with API platforms or developer tools.
- Prior experience translating customer and business needs into product requirements and roadmaps.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or other technical degree
- Experience building or contributing to strong user experiences at Workday or within enterprise software.
Other Qualifications
- Business Influence – experience shaping decisions and gaining support from technical and business teams on platform priorities and trade-offs.
- Cross-Team Collaboration – Ability to work across multiple stakeholders and drive product success
- Customer Advocacy – experience representing customer and developer needs in planning so solutions reflect how people actually use the product.
- Customer Empathy – experience listening to customers and users to understand their needs and turning that understanding into product direction.
- Data Analysis – experience using data and usage patterns to inform decisions and measure results.
- Decision Making – experience weighing trade-offs and making timely calls when priorities conflict.
- Research – experience gathering and synthesizing information from multiple sources to validate product direction.
- Stakeholder Management – experience building relationships across an organization with the people who can affect or are affected by a product's direction.
- Strategic Thinking – experience looking beyond immediate tasks to spot longer-term opportunities and connect daily work to the bigger picture.
- Systems thinking and how changes in one part of a technical ecosystem can impact many parts of the ecosystem
- Deeply cares about your own products and evangelize it across organizations generating excitement about the product's potential
Workday Pay Transparency Statement
The annualized base salary ranges for the primary location and any additional locations are listed below. Workday pay ranges vary based on work location. As a part of the total compensation package, this role may be eligible for the Workday Bonus Plan or a role-specific commission/bonus, as well as annual refresh stock grants. Recruiters can share more detail during the hiring process. Each candidate’s compensation offer will be based on multiple factors including, but not limited to, geography, experience, skills, job duties, and business need, among other things. For more information regarding Workday’s comprehensive benefits, please click here.
Primary Location: USA.CA.Pleasanton
Our Approach to Flexible Work
With Flex Work, we’re combining the best of both worlds: in-person time and remote. Our approach enables our teams to deepen connections, maintain a strong community, and do their best work. We know that flexibility can take shape in many ways, so rather than a number of required days in-office each week, we simply spend at least half (50%) of our time each quarter in the office or in the field with our customers, prospects, and partners (depending on role). This means you'll have the freedom to create a flexible schedule that caters to your business, team, and personal needs, while being intentional to make the most of time spent together. Those in our remote "home office" roles also have the opportunity to come together in our offices for important moments that matter.
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