# Senior Product Manager **Company**: Workday **Location**: Pleasanton, CA **Work arrangement**: hybrid **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: $168,000 USD - $252,000 USD **Category**: Product Management **Industry**: Technology **Apply**: https://workday.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Workday/job/USA-CA-Pleasanton/Senior-Product-Manager--Technical_JR-0110787?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_9d25f78f-1d6 ## Description We’re Workday, 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. As a Senior Product Manager on our HCM and WFM Engineering 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. **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)** - 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. - Ability to treat internal and external engineers as end customers,defining documentation standards, SDKs, sandboxes, onboarding flows, and self-service key/token provisioning. - Experience defining deprecation schedules, backwards compatibility, breaking-change management, and migration paths across API versions. - 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. **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. **Salary Information** The annualized base salary ranges for the primary location and any additional locations are: Primary Location: USA.CA.Pleasanton Primary Location Base Pay Range: $168,000 USD - $252,000 USD Additional US Location(s) Base Pay Range: $140,600 USD - $252,000 USD ## Skills ### Required - RESTful principles - GraphQL - gRPC - OpenAPI Specification - API design-first workflows - API gateway capabilities ### Nice to have - Business Influence - Cross-Team Collaboration - Customer Advocacy - Customer Empathy - Data Analysis - Decision Making - Research - Stakeholder Management - Strategic Thinking - Systems thinking --- Source: [Apply at workday.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com](https://workday.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Workday/job/USA-CA-Pleasanton/Senior-Product-Manager--Technical_JR-0110787?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)