Sr. Director, Product - Workday Platform & Transformation

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Applications will be accepted until 01/02/2026.

Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together. Here, ambition meets action. Tech meets trust. And innovation isn’t a buzzword—it’s a way of life. The world of work is changing, and we’re looking for Trailblazers who are passionate about bettering business and the world through AI, driving innovation, and keeping Salesforce’s core values at the heart of it all.

Salesforce is seeking an experienced Senior Director to lead our Workday Platform & Agentic Transformation Product Line. The role focuses on building a lean Delivery Team, cultivating business intimacy, and achieving roadmap goals. The ideal candidate has a strong background in Product Management, Engineering and Development practices, and a proven track record of nurturing high‑performing teams.

• Lead Workday Platform strategy and architecture across both HCM and Finance modules, ensuring optimal shared platform capabilities.
• Define and execute the northstar architecture vision for the Finance & Employee Success technology ecosystem.
• Drive net‑new AI Agent development and implementation to enhance organizational capacity and delivery across Finance & ES systems.
• Establish data foundation strategies to enable effective AI agent deployment and autonomous system capabilities.
• Partner with internal product teams across the organization to leverage agentic technologies for process transformation.
• Work with business and team portfolio management to define annual budget requests aligned to roadmaps and goals, and manage spend to expectations.
• Lead Product Management, Engineering and Operations teams to deliver on key business and technology objectives.
• Ensure enterprise standards and processes are followed by the team and raise exceptions for review in the correct governance frameworks.
• Lead major company projects and be accountable for key reporting indicators for programs accountable to the Vice President of IT Finance & Employee Success.
• Demonstrate thought leadership for portfolio and product development and optimization with a high focus on accountability and ownership at each level of the organization.
• Rally multi‑functional teams spanning multiple time zones and operating in a variety of agile methodologies to hold teams and individuals accountable for adhering to standard processes and defined product and portfolio goals.
• Hire, develop and retain the best talent in the industry.
• Invest in the success of every team member, providing opportunities for personal development and career growth.
• Collaborate with vendors and industry consultants to continuously learn and identify opportunities to advance our strategy and operating model for supporting our business partners.
• Maintain and lead awareness of industry best practices and relevant technologies, particularly in AI/ML and autonomous systems.

• 10+ years in product management or related experience.
• 12+ years of development and/or agile management experience.
• Prior experience managing technology in an "operational" setting driving uptime SLAs, reliability and resilience.
• Experience managing Profit and Loss and team‑specific budgets.
• Successfully led and delivered on projects with specific benefits and outcomes achieved.
• Agile methodology and/or Scaled Agile.
• A related technical degree required.
• Workday Platform experience strongly preferred—deep understanding of one or both HCM and Finance modules, platform architecture, and integration capabilities.
• Past experience in Finance and/or HR domain with implementing and managing technology solutions across various process areas (P2P, R2R, S2P, SOX).

• Ability to work well in multi‑functional, highly collaborative, and team‑oriented problem‑solving.
• Excellent written, presentation and design skills with the ability to communicate effectively to all levels of the company, including executives.
• Can work in a highly ambiguous and fast‑paced environment.
• Demonstrates strong business insight and effective communication…