Workday

Principal Product Manager, Developer Platform Experience

Workday$196K — $294K *
Enterprise Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10+ years in software product management
  • Proven success in building and scaling technical tools for external engineers and developers
  • Strong analytical skills with data systems and product analytics tools
  • Experience with AI-powered platforms to inform product decisions
  • Deep knowledge of APIs, web services, and integration patterns

Responsibilities

  • Transform the developer platform into an open, accessible space for building enterprise AIs
  • Audit and enhance the end-to-end developer journey, reducing friction for first-time API calls
  • Manage the developer content pipeline, ensuring clear and optimized documentation
  • Reorganize technical content and design intuitive documentation paths
  • Implement privacy-compliant analytics to track developer behavior and identify activation opportunities

Benefits

  • Flexible work arrangements with a balance of remote and in-office time
  • Opportunities for cross-functional collaboration and influence
  • Chance to shape the global enterprise software ecosystem
  • Access to advanced tools and technologies for product management
Full Job Description
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.

About Workday

Workday, Inc. is a provider of enterprise cloud applications for finance and human resources. The Company delivers financial management, human capital management and analytics applications designed for various companies, educational institutions and government agencies. As part of its applications, the Company provides embedded analytics that capture the content and context of everyday business events, facilitating informed decision-making from wherever users are working. Its applications include Workday Financial Management, Workday Human Capital Management (HCM) and Other Applications. It also provides open, standards-based Web-services application programming interfaces, and pre-built packaged integrations and connectors. Workday, Inc. is headquartered in Pleasanton, California.
Learn more about Workday
Size
15,932 employees
Market Cap
$42.2 billion
Industry
Net Income
-$282.4 million
Founded
2005
5 Year Trend
+26.7%
Revenue
$4.3 billion
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