Principal Product Manager

About the Role

As a Principal Product Manager on the Workday Analytics Platform team, you will lead the product vision and strategy for Data Cloud, Workday's initiative to enable zero-copy data inbound on the platform. You will also engage with partner Product Management teams to build a joint product roadmap that delivers a cohesive, end‑to‑end experience for customers.

• Lead the vision and roadmap for Data Cloud and Prism’s data integration capabilities, driving alignment and buy‑in from key stakeholders across the organization.
• Partner with design, engineering, data science, and other product managers to evolve Workday’s analytics platform, focusing on delivering intuitive, no‑code ETL experiences for data engineers and business analysts.
• Engage with partner Product Management teams to co‑develop a joint product roadmap that ensures cohesion across Workday’s broader data and analytics ecosystem.
• Dive deep into customer use cases to understand how they leverage the platform for meaningful insights, and identify, specify, and prioritize features through direct input from customers, analysts, developers, and architects.
• Build domain expertise in data preparation, data management, data warehouses, query engines, and feature engineering for data science, and serve as a thought leader guiding customers toward their best business outcomes through analytics.
• Act as the Product Owner in one or more Scrum teams—setting the vision, writing and prioritizing user stories, grooming the backlog, and communicating progress to stakeholders regularly.
• Serve as the product champion externally by fostering a strong customer community and collaborating with Sales, Presales, Customer Success Management, and Product Marketing.
• Consistently manage multiple projects, meet deadlines, and deliver results in a fast‑paced environment.

• Basic Qualifications: 10+ years of experience as a Product Manager delivering high‑impact customer outcomes in SaaS, cloud, or enterprise data software environments;
  Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• Other
  
  Qualifications:
  
  Strategic Thinking—ability to generate and apply unique business insights;
  Cross‑Team Collaboration—proven ability to work with engineering, design, data science, partner product management, sales, and customer success;
  Customer Empathy—deep understanding of customer needs and pain points;
  Domain Knowledge—deep understanding of data platforms, data lakes/warehouses, databases, data integration, ETL technologies, analytics platforms, AI, ML, and cloud computing;
  Design Thinking—collaborative work with designers and user researchers;
  Effective communication skills across technical and executive audiences.

Primary

Location:

USA‑CA‑Pleasanton – $196,000

USD to $294,000

USD. Additional US Locations – $167,200

USD to $294,000

USD. Salary ranges vary based on location and are part of the total compensation package, which may include a bonus plan, role‑specific commission/bonus, and annual refresh stock grants.

Our flexible work model encourages employees to balance in‑office presence with remote work, requiring at least 50% of the time spent in the office or in the field each quarter. Remote “home office” roles have the option to collaborate in our offices for key events.

Workday is an Equal Opportunity Employer and complies with Fair Chance laws. We consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. We are committed to providing a fully inclusive hiring experience and reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.