Principal Product Manager, Developer Platform Experience

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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

The Developer Platform Product Management team at Workday drives the product vision and strategy for one of our greatest differentiators: the technology platform that was purpose-built for the cloud. Product managers here are involved in every aspect of the product lifecycle — from crafting features that delight customers, to evangelizing improvements across internal and external audiences, to obsessing over the details that make an outstanding end product. We are growing fast, and we are looking for people who combine strategic vision with a record of getting high-demand products to market.

About the Role

As Principal Product Manager for the Workday Build developer platform, you will own one of Workday's most exciting challenges: transforming our invite-only developer platform into an open  frictionless launchpad for anyone to build enterprise AIs. You are the visionary architect who will unleash the power of our developer ecosystem.

You will craft world-class developer experience where every detail matters, and the goal is a frictionless developer journey to build ambitious applications and autonomous AI agents. Your work will directly accelerate platform adoption and growth, unlock revenue opportunities, and shape the global enterprise software ecosystem.

In your first year, you will drive these key outcomes:

• Accelerate time-to-value: Audit and transform the end-to-end developer journey, mapping friction points to reduce the time it takes for a developer to make their first successful API and tool call.

• Unify developer content strategy: Own the developer content pipeline end-to-end, working across product, engineering, and developer relations to ensure all new public API and feature  documentation, and user journey is fully tuned and optimized for developer consumption.

• Design technical information paths: Restructure technical content and information architecture, deploying automated, intuitive documentation funnels that increase guide engagement and onboarding completion rates.

• Implement predictive growth analytics: Roll out advanced, privacy-compliant tracking mechanisms to analyze behavioral intent signals across the developer portal, enabling go-to-market teams to proactively identify high-intent activation opportunities.

About You

Basic Qualifications:

• 10+ years of experience in software product management, 

• Demonstrated success building, scaling, and driving adoption for technical tools whose primary users are external engineers, developers, or system integrators.

• Strong analytical capability with data systems, performance dashboards, and product analytics software.

• Experience using AI-powered tools and platforms to inform product decisions, accelerate workflows, or enhance user experience.

Other Qualifications:

• Cross-functional collaboration: You naturally navigate complex, multi-layered internal stakeholder maps and influence technical roadmaps across Product and Engineering without needing direct authority. You build influential relationships and drive alignment for critical cross-functional initiatives.

• Developer empathy: You possess a deep, genuine passion for understanding the daily workflows and challenges of external developers, turning their qualitative feedback into actionable product strategies that improve the end-to-end experience.

• Data storytelling: You translate complex product usage data, funnel behaviors, and ecosystem trends into clear, strategic narratives that align teams and inspire action.

• Platform engineering literacy: Deep, hands-on familiarity with APIs, web services, authentication protocols, integration patterns, and enterprise SaaS platform governance models.

• Human-AI collaborative workflows: Experience designing software frameworks or builder tools that use Large Language Models, prompt engineering, or agentic automation patterns.

• Product lifecycle stewardship: A record of managing a platform product from initial discovery and technical scoping through launch, user acquisition, and continuous data-driven optimization.

• Prior experience growing B2B SaaS partner ecosystems or developer advocacy networks is a plus.

• Familiarity with modern developer experience tools, API gateways, and observability instrumentation is a plus.

• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, with the ability to adapt your style to different audiences and collaborate effectively across teams.

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

 

Primary Location Base Pay Range: $196,000 USD - $294,000 USD

 

Additional US Location(s) Base Pay Range: $167,200 USD - $294,000 USD

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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