# Senior Product Manager (P4) - Observability Strategy

**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

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## Description

We are looking for a hands-on, technical Senior Product Manager (P4) to own and drive our Observability strategy, with a strong emphasis on Distributed Tracing.

You will define the product vision for how engineers understand, debug, and optimize complex distributed systems, with a particular focus on building AI-powered detection and triage capabilities that reduce time-to-detect and time-to-resolve production issues.

**Responsibilities:**

- Own the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for Observability, with a primary focus on Distributed Tracing capabilities

- Define and drive the roadmap for AI-enabled anomaly detection

- Partner with ML engineering to define model requirements, evaluation metrics, and feedback loops for continuous model improvement

- Define requirements for LLM-based root cause summarization and triage assistance

- Specify how confidence scores, explainability, and human-in-the-loop review are surfaced in the triage workflow

- Partner closely with engineering teams to define technical requirements, evaluate architectural trade-offs, and make hands-on contributions to product decisions

- Define and track success metrics to measure product impact

- Conduct customer and internal stakeholder research to identify pain points in debugging, alert fatigue, and incident triage

- Write clear, detailed product requirements, user stories, and specs

- Stay current on industry trends in observability and applied AI/ML

**Requirements:**

- 8+ years of product management experience, with meaningful time spent in Observability, Monitoring, APM, or related infrastructure/developer tooling domains

- Deep, demonstrable expertise in Distributed Tracing concepts and technologies

- Strong technical background , comfortable reading code, understanding system architecture, APIs, and engaging directly in technical design discussions

- Concrete, hands-on understanding of AI/ML techniques applied to detection and triage

- Experience partnering directly with ML engineering teams to translate detection and triage requirements into shippable models and features

- Proven track record of shipping complex, technical products from concept to launch

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills

- Strong analytical and data-driven decision-making skills

## Skills

### Required
- Distributed Tracing
- AI/ML
- Observability
- Product Management
- Technical Leadership

### Nice to have
- OpenTelemetry
- Jaeger
- Zipkin
- Anomaly Detection
- LLM-based Summarization

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