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From the employer's careers site First seen 28 Oct 2026 · Still live on 31 Oct 2026

Senior Product Manager (P4) - Observability Strategy

Workday Pleasanton, CA Hybrid senior full-time

Salary

$168,000 USD - $252,000 USD per year

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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

Nice to have

  • OpenTelemetry
  • Jaeger
  • Zipkin
  • Anomaly Detection
  • LLM-based Summarization

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